Tonight's engine, my updated LNER A4 pacific! I updated the motion, and took the opportunity to finish out the liveries. (severalof these are inspired/pulled from @joezworld's Au with permission)
Spencer (Silver Link- is preserved by Sir Robert Noramby in 1962. When not pulling Railtours or serving as the Duke's private engine, he serves on the North Western Railway.
4491 Commonwealth of Australia- was gifted to her namesake country upon withdrawal in 1964.
C1 Dr. Evan Pierce (William Whitelaw)- was purchased by the Denbigh and Wrexham Railway in 1966 to run their express services to London.
17 Silver Fox- is under private ownership, but is managed by the London New Eastern Railway on behalf of her owners.
60015 Quicksilver-was purchased by the Chester and Holyhead Railway in 1963, and ran her last British Railways train from London onto C&HR Metals under her own power.
4902 Seagull-purchased as scrap for the Seagull Line, where she is their flagship engine.
4468 Mallard-The Official World Speed Record holder for Steam locomotives, Mallard is owned by the National Railway Museum.
2511 Silver Queen (Silver King)- purchased by the North Western Railway upon her withdrawal in 1965, she chose to amend her name to Silver Queen, but keep her original Silver King markings.
4487 Sea Eagle and 4494 Osprey- purchased in 1962 by the London New Eastern Railway to run their express services.
4493 Woodcock- escaped to America aboard an unknown liner in 1963.
4903 Peregrine- preserved by the Krestaen Railway Museum upon withdrawal in 1966.
4498 Sir Nigel Gresley- preserved in 1967 by the A4 Locomotive Society,known in the present day as the Sir Nigel Gresley Locomotive Preservation Trust.
4464 Bittern- bought by Geoff Drury in September 1966 from British Railways, the locomotive is currently owned by Jeremy Hosking.
60009 Union of South Africa- was purchased from British Railway by John Cameron in July 1966. She is usually found on his Lochty Preservation Railway.
60035 Thunder-the 36th member of the Class, was slated for Preservation by the Sudrian Railway Museum in the 50s, and ran to the museum under her own power upon withdrawal in 1966. She remains one of their flagship excursion engines through the present day. Notably this engine spent her later LNER and British Railway service sharing the number of LNER A3 Windsor Lad due to an accounting oversight.
60013 Dominion of New Zealand- was gifted to her namesake country upon withdrawal in 1963, but wasn’t delivered until 1964 so she could be shipped with 4491 Commonwealth of Australia.
60 018 Sparrow Hawk- was donated to the London New Eastern Railway when withdrawn in 1963, with the provision she would be available for use if BR wanted to run steam excursions in the future. Due to this, Sparrow hawk would spend much of the 70s and 80s pulling excursions on the BR mainline.
4489 Dominion of Canada- was gifted to her namesake country upon withdrawal in 1965.
4486 Merlin-was yanked off the docks by cargo ship in 1965, and taken to South Korea, where he would take up high speed express trains as he was designed to pull. In the modern day he is an honored elder among their locomotives, and trained almost every high speed locomotive and trainset in the Republic of Korea.
11 Empire of India- was purchased directly from British Railways in 1964 by Silver Fox’s owner. She can normally be found hauling expresses on the London New Eastern Railway, as prefers to stay on home rails rather than touring.
4484 Falcon, 4900 Gannet, and 4483 Kingfisher- were purchased by an American Railroad. 4493 Woodcock had wandered onto the line after her escape to America, which had led to increased tourism to the line. In response the line contacted British Railways and acquired 4484 and 4900 later the same year. The three A4s soon settled into their new home, although whether they understood the difference between their new employment and the former ownership by British Railways was somewhat of a question at the time. In 1966 the railway contacted BR again and 4483 joined the trio.
4495 Golden Fleece-rolled himself on a ferry to France at the end of 1962, and eventually ended up in America, Running the CSX Miami Terminal.
60008 Dwight D. Eisenhower- Donated to the United States in 1964 due to being named after a US President. He soon found employment on the Southern Pacific, and would eventually marry one of their Daylight GS-4 northerns, 4437 Irene.
