A wartime steam train will be travelling through Teesside next week. The LNER Thompson Class B1 locomotive, 61264, will be passing through the area on Tuesday, February 28, as it makes its way from ...
When steam returns to the Great Eastern Main Line on the weekend of August 14/15, the locomotive at its head will have a very familiar name! The train will be hauled by an LNER B1 locomotive sporting ...
The locomotive was completed in April 1948 by the North British Locomotive Company, and although it was built to an LNER design, it was delivered after nationalisation to British Railways. The ...