A recent trip to the museum's workshop found progress being made on the LNER class A4 -
"SIR NIGEL GRESLEY".
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The centre cylinder has been re-fitted. |
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A sketch from the Doncaster Works Drawing Office collection of the front end of a class A4. |
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One of the locos in the works would fit on the bench. |
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Boiler from the "ROCKET" replica undergoing repair alongside the A4. |
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I would paint it if I could get the lid off this tin!!! |
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This looks like one of those which got away. Another sketch from the Doncaster collection showing the outline of an A4 overlaid onto what appears to be an A3 with a long smokebox?? |
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