The LNER Mallard was built in the 1930s as Britain’s answer to Germany’s record breaking steam locomotives, which had become ...
The locomotive was completed in April 1948 by the North British Locomotive Company, and although it was built to an LNER design, it was delivered after nationalisation to British Railways. The ...
When steam returns to the Great Eastern Main Line on the weekend of August 14/15, the locomotive at its head will have a very familiar name! The train will be hauled by an LNER B1 locomotive sporting ...