Uploaded January 2024 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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For just 4 years the ex-London & North Eastern Railway A4 streamlined locomotives were pushed north to Scotland, to work the Glasgow to Aberdeen expresses, the "St. Mungo", "Granite City" and "Bon Accord". But how did they fare...


SOURCES & CREDIT:

'The Silver Jubilee' poster by Frank Newbould - twitter.com/78Derngate/status/944672743919845378, Public Domain, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=64999857

Illustration of a silver A4 by Anonymous - Vynálezy a pokroky: populární časopis technický. V Praze: Šolc a Šimáček, 1936, 25(17). s. 257. Dostupné také z: digitalniknihovna.cz/mzk/uuid/uuid:2f133bb0-67a2-11e4-9ab5-5ef3fc9ae867, Public Domain, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=84620027

Photograph of A4 no.2509 "Silver Link" on the inaugural "Silver Jubilee" by Unknown author - The Scotsman, 28 September 1935, Public Domain, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=62569252

Website sources:

a1steam.com/portals/0/newsmigrate_a1/2021/01/TTT-125s.pdf

keymodelworld.com/article/gresley-a4s-scotland

scot-rail.co.uk/page/LNER+A4+Class

heritagerailway.co.uk/1897/from-our-archives-50-years-on-the-end-of-the-a4-pacifics-not

britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk

eastbank.org.uk/a4.htm

Literary sources:

'The Call of Steam' by Robert Adley, published by Blandford Press

Video sources:

'Glory Days of Steam - East Coast Mainline To Scotland' by Steve Le Cheminant


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