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  Encyclopedia: LNER
The LNER, as its name suggests, covered the arc of the country between North and East of London.
The public face of a railway system was and is in large part the locomotives and rolling stock in service upon it, and therefore the personalities of the Chief Mechanical Engineers of the LNER impressed their distinctive visions upon the railway.
Sir Nigel Gresley was the first CME and held the post for the greatest proportion of the LNER's life, and thus he had the greatest effect on the company.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/LNER   (592 words)

  
 LNER Class A4 4468 Mallard - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Number 4468 Mallard is a London and North Eastern Railway Class A4 4-6-2 Pacific steam locomotive built in the 1930s by the LNER and designed by Sir Nigel Gresley in England.
Certainly many other steam locomotives were capable of such speeds; the LNER's long, straight, slightly downhill raceway of Stoke Bank played as much of a part in the record as the locomotive or crew.
It is notable that, unlike world records for cars, there is no requirement for an average of two runs in both directions, and assistance from gradient or wind has always been acceptable in rail speed records.
peekskill.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/LNER_Class_A4_4468_Mallard   (649 words)

  
 LNER Class A4 4464 Bittern - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
60019 Bittern is an LNER Class A4 steam locomotive.
Built for the LNER in 1937, it was originally numbered 4464.
It is a 4-6-2 locomotive to the same design by Sir Nigel Gresley as the more famous Mallard.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/LNER_Class_A4_4464_Bittern   (118 words)

  
 LNER
Harris, Nigel LNER Reflections: A Collection of Photographs from the BBC Hulton Picture Library, SLP, 1985, pp120.
An excellent one-volume history of the LNER, from its formation in 1923 until nationalisation in 1948.
LNER Steam, DandC, 1969, pp292 with colour frontis.
members.aol.com /gbsteven/lner.htm   (926 words)

  
 LNER loco coal wagon
Until construction of these wagons the LNER had relied upon many smaller older wagons to carry loco coal, often after their revenue earning days were over.
Purpose built large capacity vehicles were an attempt to persuade the operators of privately owner wagons to switch from 10 and 12 ton vehicles to 20 ton capacity.
Scrutiny of the single surviving, very corroded numberplate on the wagon suggested its LNER number was 303255 but this is far from certain.
homepage.ntlworld.com /foxfield/lner_loco_coal_wagon.htm   (675 words)

  
 LNER Locomotives in Colour - Transport Centre, Colourpoint Books   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
The LNER existed between 1923 and 1948 and owned such famous and glamorous steam locomotives as Flying Scotsman and Mallard.
Colour material on the LNER, or any of the ‘big four’, taken before 1948 is rare and this is the first colour book to be devoted exclusively to the LNER and its locomotives.
A wide variety of locomotives is depicted, including ‘Pacifics’; in Garter blue and many of the LNER ‘Atlantics’ in green.
www.colourpoint.co.uk /titles/1898392277-1.html   (203 words)

  
 English Tourism Vintage Poster Art for Travel to England
The LNER train company goes where the fun is! It features children running, playing and even riding a donkey on a beach in England.
The LNER train company goes where the fun is! It features a mother dipping her little girl in the ocean at the Bridlington beach in England.
George and the Dragon; East Coast by L.N.E.R. George and the Dragon; East Coast by L.N.E.R. This is a large art print on a thick, satin finish stock.
www.enjoyart.com /england.htm   (833 words)

  
 The Winwaed Bookshop: British Railways   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
The LNER was one of the most famous and glamorous of the "Big Four" railway companies in Britain.
Although the LMS also operated in the Yorkshire Ridings, the LNER was King - hauling Yorkshire coal from the pits, industrial goods from the countries, tourists to the coast, and of course the quiet country lines.
Although the LNER is thought of an "eastern UK" company, it also had the most westerly stations on the mainland.
www.winwaed.com /books/trains/uk.shtml   (908 words)

  
 lner   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
The LNER was formed 1st January 1923 as a result of the "Grouping" of many smaller companies.
The companies brought together to form the LNER were: The Great Northern Railway; the Great Central Railway; the Great Eastern Railway; the North Eastern Railway and the two Scottish companies the North British and Great North of Scotland Railways.
When the LNER was first formed there was much friction between the men of the various pre-grouping constituents.
www.hostultra.com /~madmartin/lner.htm   (406 words)

  
 LNER CLASS A4 FACTS AND INFORMATION   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Sir_Nigel_Gresley introduced the famous LNER Class A4 locomotives in 1935 to pull a new train called the Silver_Jubilee, between London King's Cross and Newcastle, in celebration of King George V's 25th year of reign.
The A4 pacifics (with the 4-6-2 wheel arrangement) were designed for low consumption of coal and water on all kinds of services; passenger and freight.
LNER Encyclopedia Page covering the history and development of the LNER A4 Pacifics
www.whereintheworldiskerry.com /LNER_Class_A4   (318 words)

  
 Fine art, yes, but art with a commercial purpose | csmonitor.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
The impressive, brilliantly stylish one shown at right is currently on view in an exhibition of LNER posters of the '20s and '30s at the Monkwearmouth Station Museum in Sunderland, England.
The advertising policy of the LNER was unashamedly to entice people by presenting a dream world of pleasure and comfort.
The LNER advertising policy was a paradoxical mixture of "fine art" and "commercial art." The advertising manager William Teesdale demanded artistically innovative standards of design from serious artists.
search.csmonitor.com /2004/0528/p18s02-hfes.htm   (387 words)

  
 Signal Boxes of the London & North Eastern Railway
From its inception, the LNER was divided into three separate "Areas" which closely related to its predecessor companies.
The LNER built a few boxes to the fesigns of the constituent companies - this example is the the Great Northern 1907 design and may havre already been on the drawing board when the LNER was formed.
It has been constructed from parts of a Great Eastern cabin of their 1883 design, but LNER habits dominate in the provision of a rear-mounted frame and corresponding unglazed portion of the front wall.
www.signalbox.org /gallery/lne.htm   (325 words)

  
 LNER [Journal]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
LNER [Journal of the London and North Eastern Railway]
Describes both passenger and freight services (the former were complicated by being inter-worked with those to St Helens (LNER)).
Notes of activity mainly in the North Eastern Area: notably Royal patronage by, or due to, Princess Mary taking up residence at Goldborough Hall, and subsequently Harewood House, and being visited by Queen Mary.
www.steamindex.com /magrack/lnerj.htm   (328 words)

  
 LNER & Constituents   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
The various classes of 4-6-0 operated by the LNER are put under the spotlight in the first of a new series...
The LNER existed between 1923 and 1948 and owned such famous and glamorous steam locomotives as Flying...
The LNER V2 2-6-2 steam locomotives were relatively sleek workhorses with a light enough axle loading...
www.saxoncourtbooks.co.uk /ontrack/books2/itmidx1.htm   (688 words)

  
 LNER 4-6-2 Pacific Locomotives
The LNER's Express Pacific designs were probably the most famous of the LNER locomotives.
The LNER quickly converted to using Pacifics for "top link" express passenger services, and would continue to introduce new Pacific express passenger designs right up to Nationalisation in 1948.
As well as these famous express locomotives, the LNER also had a number of Pacific tank locomotives.
www.lner.info /locos/A/a.shtml   (99 words)

  
 GCR: RVP   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
The other LNER vehicles are currently stored pending their turn in the restoration queue.
LNER "Flying Scotsman" composite coach 18033, built in 1927 at York.
LNER Pigeon Van 4050, built in 1941 at York.
www.gcrailway.co.uk /groups/rvp.htm   (561 words)

  
 Train-Sim.Com News
Usually noted for his route creations, Tim is now a fully-fledged stock modeler in his own right, and we are sure you will agree, his Pullman coaches are a superb representation of 1960's luxury.
The "LNER Pack" will again give customers a value for money and very high quality product.
The "LNER Pack" will be on sale on the 16th February.
www.train-sim.com /news/bats0216.htm   (398 words)

  
 Amazon.co.uk: Books: LNER 150: The London and North Eastern - A Century and a Half of Progress   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
The railway at the heart of Britain, carrying the nation's coal and transporting produce from the vast East Anglian farmlands, the LNER was a workhorse.
From Scottish ports to Lowestoft in the east, there were many faces to the LNER and management encouraged devolution like no other rail company of its time.
This book contains many stirring stories of the days when the vast majority of its passengers and most its staff never dreamt of getting to know other than their small corners of the system, and when boarding the "Flying Scotsman" was the ultimate in adventure.
www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0715313819   (475 words)

  
 LNER   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
A new paddle steamer, Waverley was introduced for the 1947 season, the last before railway nationalisation and the transfer of the vessels to the British Transport Commission and later to its newly acquired subsidiary, the Caledonian Steam Packet Company, the LNER's former bitter rivals.
Since 1975 she has steamed for private owners, including from a re-opened Helensburgh, the pier from which the story of railway-owned steamers was begun by the LNER's predecessors.
A history of the NB, LNER and the Craigendoran services of the post-war Caledonian Steam Packet Company.
myweb.tiscali.co.uk /tramways/LNER.htm   (197 words)

  
 Going Loco! - LNER 4-6-0 "B1" 5MT   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
The LNER answer to the LMS Black 5 was the Thompson B1 mixed traffic engine.
After withdrawal from Colwick in 1965, 61264 was used for a while as a stationary boiler, and then sent to Barry for scrapping (The only LNER engine to reach this yard).
It was named "Mayflower" after another scrapped member of the class, and was the last ER loco that worked into Marylebone in 1966.
www.goingloco.neave.com /gcr/pastandpresent/lner1.html   (249 words)

  
 The LNER Webring
Line drawings of carriages and locomotives from LNER and constituent companies in 4mm and 7mm /foot scale.
The principal means by which this shall be done is the encouragement of membership participation.
The LNER Coach Association, was formed in 1980 with the aim preserving & restoring a rake of coaches built by the former LNER for use on the North Yorkshire Moors Railway.
s.webring.com /hub?ring=lnerwr   (811 words)

  
 The London & North Eastern Railway (LNER) Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
The LNER was one of the "Big Four" Railway Companies formed during the 1923 Grouping Act in Britain.
Even today, the LNER's Gresley Pacifics are synonymous with speed and luxury.
It was the second largest "Big Four" company in terms of route miles, but was also the poorest.
www.winwaed.com /rail/LNER/index.shtml   (165 words)

  
 LNER A3 "Flying Scotsman"   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
The BR version has a 'streamlined' tender rather than the corridor tender of the LNER version.
This was followed one year later (when the GNR had become part of the LNER) by what has surely become the World’s most famous steam locomotive –; No.4472 ‘Flying Scotsman’.
Many more examples were added to the class in the 1920’s and into the early 30’s, first as Class A1 and then subsequently with higher pressure boilers and altered valve gear as Class A3.
www.asterhobbies.co.uk /pages/models/a3.htm   (668 words)

  
 Groundspeak Travel Bug Details   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
After LNER had delivered some really old parcels (sorry for the delay) at an historical Romans-street we picked him up to help him on more modern streets again.
LNER makes a stop in front of our house in The Hague.
We found LNER in a cache in the woods between Almere and Lelystad.
www.geocaching.com /track/details.aspx?id=29090   (899 words)

  
 Motor Books - RAILWAY-LNER
LNER Locomotives Vol 24 ptB class 04/6 to04/8 05 & Thompson 01
Yeadon LNER v19 D1/D2/D3 & D4 & M&GN 4-4-0s
Yeadons LNER 30 E1 E2 GC12a E4 E5 2-4-0s
www.motorbooks.co.uk /showsect.asp?id=142   (443 words)

  
 Untitled
This coach was designed by Sir Nigel Gresley, it pioneered the steel underframe and drop-head buckeye couplings, which now feature on all express carriages in the United Kingdom.
The LNER Brake Composite features a First class compartment, four Third class compartments and a Guard compartment.
The design is still the same as the ordinary LNER Teak Composite.
mymodelrailway.itgo.com /custom2.html   (101 words)

  
 K lner ringe   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
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k-lner-ringe.wich.nl   (161 words)

  
 ic-games Review - LNER Pacifics, A Microsoft Train Sim Add On - Review, Preview and Interview for PC, Xbox, PS2, ...
Rapidly expanding (they'll burst one day!) UK train and flight simulations publisher, First Class Simulations, is pleased to announce its licensing deal to publish the eagerly anticipated LNER Pacifics Microsoft Train Simulator add-on developed by Blue Arrow TS.
From the developers of best-selling add-on, Severn Valley Railway, LNER Pacifics, brings together the finest and most technically accurate models of the Gresley and Thompson Express Pacifics engines period.
Concentrating on the LNER and BR Eastern Region, this pack contains some stunning examples of the locomotives and coaching stock designed and built in the golden age of British steam express train travel on the East Coast Main Line of England and Scotland.
www.ic-games.co.uk /index.php?location=4&&articleid=2432   (454 words)

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