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unusual facts about LNER



Articulated vehicle

One of the first examples of articulated railway carriages were used by London and North Eastern Railways in Great Britain on their London Suburban Trains in the mid-1920s ; these trains (rolling stock) were designed by Sir Nigel Gresley and built at the LNER's Doncaster Works.

Awsworth

Awsworth once had a station on the Great Northern (later LNER) line from Nottingham to Derby which crossed the Erewash Valley to Ilkeston over the Bennerley Viaduct, closed in September 1964.

Brown Jack

The last LNER Class A1/A3 locomotive was named after him, entering into service in December 1935.

Edenham

The 19th-century Baron Willoughby de Eresby built the Edenham and Little Bytham Railway which connected the village to the East Coast Main Line at Little Bytham.

Frederick Banbury, 1st Baron Banbury of Southam

He was the last chairman of the GNR, which lost its identity when, under the Railways Act 1921, it was grouped with several other railways on 1 January 1923 to become a constituent of the London and North Eastern Railway (LNER).

HMS Melton

Of that number, 2000 were transferred from the ex-LNER steamer Prague, after the latter had been damaged by near misses from shells and dive bombers off Gravelines.

Holcroft valve gear

Holcroft’s conjugation mechanism was a revision of Nigel Gresley’s method of operating the "inside" cylinder via an extension of the "outside" valve spindles on LNER locomotives.

J24

NER Class P, a class of steam locomotive also known as the LNER CLass J24

Kylchap

Sir Nigel Gresley of the LNER became a proponent when he incorporated double Kylchap exhausts into four of his A4 Pacifics, including the world speed record holder Mallard.

Arthur Peppercorn's post-war LNER Pacifics also incorporated them, including preserved A2 532 Blue Peter, and the recreated A1 Tornado has one.

LNER Class B1

GCR Class 8C (classified B1 by the LNER and then reclassified as B18 by the LNER in order to make way in the classification for)

LNER Class B2

GCR Class 1 ("Sir Sam Fay" Class), steam locomotives designated LNER Class B2 between 1923 and 1945

LNER Class L1

GCR Class 1B, introduced 1914, designated LNER Class L1 in 1924 and reclassified L3 in 1945

Longbenton Metro station

The station itself predates the Metro light rail system; it was opened in July 1947 by the LNER, which operated electric suburban passenger services on the North Tyneside Loop, the predecessor of the Metro's Yellow line (see Tyneside Electrics).

Miles Beevor

He became chief legal advisor for London and North Eastern Railway in 1943, a post he held until the LNER was nationalised.

North Clyde Line

At the time of the Grouping in 1923, the North British Railway became part of the London and North Eastern Railway (LNER), while the Caledonian Railway became part of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway (LMS).

Oliver Bulleid

The Grouping in 1923 of Britain's financially troubled railways saw the GNR subsumed into the new London and North Eastern Railway (LNER), and Gresley was appointed the CME.

Robin Hood's Bay railway station

The closure of the lines to Whitby was marked by the Whitby Moors Rail Tour run by the Stephenson Locomotive Society and the Manchester Lococmotive Society and was hauled by preserved LNER K4 2-6-0 no.3442 The Great Marquess and York shed's K1 2-6-0 no.62005 (which resides at the North Yorkshire Moors Railway in the care of the North Eastern Locomotive Preservation Group (NELPG).

Roe I Triplane

It was then transported to the new flying ground that Roe had found on Walthamstow Marshes (then in Essex, but now within the London Borough of Waltham Forest), where he rented two railway arches under the LNER railway besides the river Lea.

Southern Railway multiple unit numbering and classification

This is different from the system used by British Rail (adopted from the LNER) to indicate the type of non-powered coach — see British Rail coach designations.

The Iron Maiden

It was then sold to George Hawkins, before passing into the Dr Tony Marchington collection in Derbyshire, following its sale at the 1993 Great Dorset Steam Fair and became part of the same collection as Flying Scotsman, Nigel Gresley's world famous LNER rail locomotive.

West Monkseaton Metro station

West Monkseaton Metro station is a station on the Tyne and Wear Metro in Monkseaton, North Tyneside, England, which was originally opened by the LNER in 1933.


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