London And North Eastern Railway Formation Geographic Area

These were of varying size and fortune, the North Eastern Railway being probably the wealthiest.

2 Geographic Area

The LNER, as its name suggests, covered the arc of the country between North and East of London. It encompassed the East Coast Main Line from London to EdinburghArthur's Seat. See also for a panoramic view from Holyrood Park towards Ocean Terminal. Edinburgh (pronounced ED-in-burra ( SAMPA: ["Ed@n%b@r@])), Dun Eideann in Scottish Gaelic, is a major and historic city on the east coast of Scotland on the south shor via YorkThis article is about the English city. For other meanings, see York (disambiguation). York is a city in the north of England built at the confluence of the Rivers Ouse and Foss. In 1991 the city had a population of 123,126. Its geographic coordinates are and Newcastle upon TyneNewcastle upon Tyne often called just Newcastle is a city in North East England in the metropolitan county of Tyne and Wear. The City has a relatively small population of around 259,000 ( 2001 census). However, the Metropolitan Boroughs of North Tyneside, as well as the routes from Edinburgh to Aberdeen and InvernessThis article is about the city of Inverness in Scotland. For other places of the same name, see Inverness (disambiguation). Inverness Lieutenancy Site of city shown in red Inverness is the only city in the Scottish Highlands. It lies at the mouth of the R. Most of the country east of the PenninesThe Pennines are a mountain range in England. Often said to be the "backbone of England", they form an unbroken range stretching from the Peak District in the Midlands, through the Yorkshire Dales and Cumbrian Fells to the Cheviot Hills on the Scottish bo was the LNER's purview, including the large, flat expanse of East AngliaNorfolk and Suffolk, the core area of East Anglia. Cambridgeshire is to the west and Essex to the south. East Anglia is a region of eastern England. It has no official status, and the boundaries of East Anglia are undefined. It includes the counties of No. The LNER's main workshops were in DoncasterThis article is about the town of Doncaster in England. See also Doncaster, Victoria for the suburb of Melbourne, Australia. Doncaster is a town in South Yorkshire, England. It is popularly known to its residents as Donny . It is the main settlement in th.

3 Paint and livery

The LNER used a number of paint colors on its trains. Most common, though, were lined apple green on its passenger locomotives (much lighter and brighter than the green used by the Great Western Railway) and unlined black on freight locomotives, both with gold lettering. Passenger carriages were often left in a varnished wood finish; often, teak veneer was used.

Some special trains and their A4 Pacific locomotives were painted otherwise, including silver and blue.

4 Chief Mechanical Engineers

The public face of a railway system was and is in large part the locomotives and rolling stock in service upon it, and therefore the personalities of the Chief Mechanical Engineers of the LNER impressed their distinctive visions upon the railway. There were three CMEs of the LNER.

4.1 Sir Nigel Gresley

Sir Nigel Gresley was the first CME and held the post for the greatest proportion of the LNER's life, and thus he had the greatest effect on the company. He came to the LNER via the Great Northern Railway, where he also held the post of CME. He was noted for his "Big Engine" policy, and is best remembered for his large express passenger locomotives, many times the holder of the world speed record for steam locomotives. LNER A4 Pacific class locomotive Mallard holds the record to this day. Gresley died in office in 1941.

4.2 Edward Thompson

Edward Thompson's short reign ( 1941- 1946) was a controversial one. A noted detractor of Gresley even before his ascention to the post of CME, there are those who interpret many of his actions as being motivated by dislike of his predecessor. Against this it must be said that Gresley's designs had their flaws as well as their brilliance. His record is best served by his solid and dependable freight and mixed-traffic locomotives built under and for wartime conditions. He retired in 1946.

4.3 Arthur H. Peppercorn

Peppercorn 's career was cut short by nationalisation and he only served 18 months in the position of CME. In this short period and in an atmosphere of reconstruction rather than great new endeavors, his only notable designs were his A1 and A2 Pacific express passenger locomotives, most of which were completed after nationalisation. Peppercorn was a student and admirer of Gresley and his locomotives combined the classic lines of Gresley's with the reliability and solidity Gresley's locomotives never quite achieved.

5 See Also

Locomotives of the London and North Eastern Railway

The "big four" pre- nationalisation British railway companies:

Great Western | London Midland & Scottish | London & North Eastern | Southern

Big four British railway companies

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1 Formation