LNER Pacifics

The London and North Eastern Railway (LNER) operated various classes steam locomotives with a 4-6-2 (or Pacific) wheel arrangement.

The Great Northern Pacifics, were of GNR Class A1, designed by Nigel Gresley and numbered 1470/1.

The LNER also used Pacific tank engines, initially classified A5-7 and were eventually joined by a class A8.

In 1929 2404 City of Ripon was fitted with a modified A1 boiler, but otherwise the A2s bore little resemblance to the remaining LNER Pacifics which were the continued evolution of the same basic Gresley design.

One of these A4s, 4469 Sir Ralph Wedgwood was destroyed during the Baedeker raids of World War II.

Post-war, the initially straightforward classification system for LNER Pacifics started to break down.

Excluding the Raven Class A2s and the A4 which destroyed during the war, British Railways withdrew the LNER Pacifics from stock between 1959 and 1966.

In addition to the preserved engines above, a new build Peppercorn Class A1, 60163 Tornado was completed in August 2008.