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John Cameron. Disposition. Static Display. LNER 3442 The Great Marquess is a member of the London and North Eastern Railway (LNER) Class K4 designed by Nigel Gresley for the steep grades of the West Highland Line. It was renumbered 1994 in the LNER's 1946 renumbering scheme, and then renumbered 61994 by British railways after the 1948 ...
LNER Class K4 class 2-6-0 steam locomotive No. 61994 The Great Marquess stands at Loughborough during the Great Central Railway's Steam Gala January 2011. This was the engine's final outing on the railway before returning to Scotland.
Darlington Works. Coordinates: 54.53802°N 1.55488°W. Darlington Works plate of 1938 on K4 2-6-0 3442 (61994) The Great Marquess, April 2009. Darlington Works was established in 1863 by the Stockton and Darlington Railway in the town of Darlington in the north east of England. The main part of the works, the North Road Shops was located on the ...
Various steam locomotives have been used to haul the service over the years, mostly of types that would have been used on the route in pre-1967 steam days, including: 61994 The Great Marquess; designed specially for the route in the 1930s. LNER Peppercorn Class K1 2-6-0 No. 62005 Lord of the Isles; a 1940s development of the K4 design.
LNER Thompson/PeppercornClass K1. Water cap. The London and North Eastern Railway (LNER) Class K1 is a type of 2-6-0 (mogul) steam locomotive designed by Edward Thompson. Thompson preferred a simple two-cylinder design instead of his predecessor Nigel Gresley 's three-cylinder one. The seventy K1s were intended to be split between the North ...
Scene: Great Western Railway rolling stock—Castle class—at Tyseley Locomotive Works, Birmingham, West Midlands. The Night King, acrylic on canvas: view view [permanent dead link] Scene: Great Western Railway rolling stock—King class No.6000 King George V—steams through the night. The Great Marquess: view see Terence Cuneo website
Martin Evans (1916 – 29 December 2003) was influential in the field of model engineering and locomotive design, and also worked as the technical editor and eventually managing editor of the English magazine Model Engineer. [ 1] His editorship, along with other changes in staff, helped keep the magazine on track after experiencing some decline ...
His interest in steam railways led to his acquiring the locomotive The Great Marquess from British Railways following its withdrawal in 1962. He succeeded Sir Gerald Nabarro as chairman of the Severn Valley Railway in 1973.