Sir Nigel Gresley

Sir Nigel Gresley is a LNER tender engine

Bio of Real Life Engine
As with the other members of the 35-strong class, Sir Nigel Gresley wore many liveries throughout his career. He was released to traffic on 30 October 1937 in the standard LNER garter blue of the A4 Pacifics. New numbers and letters for the tender in stainless steel were added in a general overhaul 16 January 1939. Sir Nigel Gresley was repainted into wartime black with LNER markings on 21 February 1942. The next repaint was into black with NE markings on 20 October 1943, as a cutback. After the war, Sir Nigel Gresley regained LNER garter blue livery with red/white lining on 6 March 1947.

With the formation of British Railways came new liveries and Sir Nigel Gresley was painted into British Railways dark blue with black and white lining on 27 September 1950. The final livery change was into British Railways brunswick green livery on 17 April 1952. In preservation, Sir Nigel Gresley wore garter blue (with stainless steel letters and numbers as 4498 added later) from 1966 until his overhaul in the late 1990s, when he gained his current British Railways blue livery as 60007. This livery was retained again after the 2006 overhaul.

Bio In the Classic Railway Book Series
Sir Nigel Gresley visited the south northern railway in 2002 as a visitor, he tells the other engines stories of the LNER and he is a Very Enterprising Engine

Basis
Sir Nigel Gresley is  Based on a real engine with the same name, an LNER A4 4-6-2 class.

Livery
Sir Nigel Gresley have been coloured BR blue in the Classic Railway Book Series but he have been coloured many liveries in real life ( for more info of real life livery read Bio Of Real Life Engine)

Appearances

 * Special Engines