The steam locomotive was one of history's greatest inventions and it revolutionised transport throughout the world. The East Coast of England and Scotland was served by the trains of the London and North Eastern Railway on which ran the glorious A4s - the most famous steam locomotives of all time and certainly the fastest ! The title greatest must go to Mallard the fastest of them all and most famous goes to Flying Scotsman both featured in this programme. But the LNER boasted many more great steam locomotives and here we see other A4s include Bittern Union of South... Africa and Sir Nigel Gresley - the latter named in honour of the gifted engineer who designed them. Many other locomotives were built to his designs and appear in this programme including. The Great Marquess and Green Arrow whilst his successors Thompson and Peppercorn provided designs such as the B1 mixed traffic and A2 Pacifics which are also seen here. We also see the maids of all work classes such as the J72 and N7 tanks and the Q6 heavy freight locomotives. These and many others are the great steam locomotives of the LNER. [show more]
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Documentary focusing on the steam locomotives that ran on the London and North Eastern Railway and in particular the A4s, two of which, the 'Mallard' and 'The Flying Scotsman', became world famous.
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