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LNER Class A4 4464 Bittern going over Forth Bridge

4464 Bittern is a London & North Eastern Railway Class A4 steam locomotive. Built for the LNER in 1937 at Doncaster Works as works number 1866, it was originally numbered 4464. Renumbered 19 on 16 August 1946 under the LNER 1946 renumbering scheme, it was renumbered 60019 by British Railways on 10 October 1948, after nationalisation. A Pacific 4-6-2 locomotive to the same design by Nigel Gresley as the more famous A4 Mallard and one of the 35 strong class, it is one of six to survive into preservation and is one of three currently certified for mainline use.

In preservation, the locomotive has also worn the identities of a number of its scrapped classmates, including the first of the A4 class 2509 Silver Link and most recently as 4492 Dominion of New Zealand.
 
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GWR 4-6-0 Star class No 4065 'Evesham Abbey' runs through the station on an up express two years before it was rebuilt as a Castle class locomotive circa 1937.
Built by Swindon works in December 1922 No 4065 remained in service as a Star class locomotive until July 1939 when it was withdrawn from Stafford Road shed to be rebuilt as a Castle class locomotive and then allocated to stock as No 5085 but still retaining the original Saint Class locomotive's name.

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LNER Class A4 4468 Mallard

LNER 4468 Mallard is a LNER Class A4 4-6-2 steam locomotive built by the London & North Eastern Railway at Doncaster Works, England in 1938. It is historically significant as the holder of the world speed record for steam locomotives at 126 mph (203 km/h).

The A4 class was designed by Nigel Gresley to power high-speed streamlined trains. The wind-tunnel-tested, aerodynamic body and high power allowed the class to reach speeds of over 100 miles per hour (160 km/h), although in everyday service it rarely attained this speed. While in British Railways days regular steam-hauled rail services in the UK were officially limited to a 90 mph 'line speed', pre-war, the A4s had to run significantly above 90 mph just to keep schedule on trains such as the Silver Jubilee and The Coronation, with the engines reaching 100 mph on many occasions.[3][4] Mallard covered almost one and a half million miles (2.4 million km) before it was retired in 1963.

The locomotive is 70 ft (21 m) long and weighs 165 tons, including the tender. It is painted LNER garter blue with red wheels and steel rims.

Mallard is now part of the National Collection and preserved at the National Railway Museum in York.
 
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44 Class Diesel Electric Locomotives 4464, 4473 & 4486
The 44 class locomotives were delivered between 1957-1967, manufactured by AE Goodwin of Auburn NSW under license to the American Locomotive Company (ALCo) as part of their DL500 ‘World Locomotive’ series.
With 12-cylinder ALCo 251 engines, the 100 members of the 44 class were built for express passenger and freight train duties, and while their elegant streamlining saw them become the face of top express trains such as the Indian Pacific and Southern Aurora, they were equally at home hauling slow freight services.
With driving cabs at both ends they were versatile units, serving throughout the state with distinction for 40 years, with the last units withdrawn from government service in 1997.

Many were given a second lease on life in the 2000s, bought by private operators and pressed back into traffic in the early days of privatisation in NSW, and a handful still survive in commercial service. 4464, 4473 and 4486 are all owned by the Lachlan Alco Locomotive Group and have featured heavily with East Coast Heritage Rail through the years. 4486 was the first to be restored, returning to service in 1995 only a year after withdrawal, with 4473 following in 2005 and 4464 making its return to service in 2011 for a tour to Kandos, when all three combined on a tour for the first time in preservation.
It is hoped to return these 3 locomotives to ECHR operations soon.
 
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Flying Scotsman at Kings Cross station, c 1930.
ENGLAND - DECEMBER 17: The "Flying Scotsman", pulled by an A3 class 4-6-0 locomotive number 4475 "Flying Fox", leaving King's Cross station, about 1930. Several other passenger trains, one pulled by a class D16 4-4-0 locomotive number 12547, wait in the station.
The "Flying Scotsman" left King's Cross for Edinburgh every morning at 10.00 am. The non stop journey took around seven hours.
 
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Locomotive 4483

The last surviving PRR l1s 2-10-0 "Decapod" locomotive. Where the K-4 series was meant to be a thoroughbred passenger locomotive, the l1 series was designed to be a brute force hauler of freight, iron ore, coal and timber. She was not designed for high speeds but if you needed something moved, she was built for it. She is currently owned by the Western New York Railroad Historical Society and sits at the old train station in Hamburg, NY. There are no current plans for a complete running restoration.
 
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