Une plaque commémorative sur le Sir Nigel Gresley Classe A4 4-6-2 locomotive à vapeur.

• Contributeur: Alistair Scott / Alamy Banque D'Images
• ID de l’image: B73CC5
• Taille du fichier: 50,5 MB (1,9 MB Téléchargement compressé)
• Autorisations: Modèle - non | Propriété - non
• Dimensions: 5150 x 3427 px | 43,6 x 29 cm | 17,2 x 11,4 inches | 300dpi
• Date de la prise de vue: juillet 2008
• Lieu: Pickering, Yorkshire, UK

Informations supplémentaires

In 1937 the 100th Gresley Pacific locomotive was built by the London and North Eastern Railway, and the railway honoured her designer by giving the locomotive his name - Sir Nigel Gresley. In 1959 this locomotive broke the post-war world speed record for a steam engine with a speed of 112mph, and this plaque commemorates that. (The overall speed record of 126mph was set by a sister locomotive, The Mallard, in 1938.) In 1966, at the end of the age of steam on British railways, this steam engine was saved from scrapping by a small group of determined men and restored. The engine now has a permanent home on the North Yorkshire Moors Railway but makes regular trips on the mainline.

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