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ASEAG 215 - Linie 53 nach Bushof
Aachen Friedrich-Wilhelm-Platz - 19. Mai 2008
Mercedes O.530 Citaro (2006)
I had fun with my camera, macro kit, and lights...and I really like how they turned out. Now help me choose my 365 for yesterday.
We had the call to say 428 original gearbox has been rebuilt and tested. Here it is waiting for pick up, looking splendid. We all hope it runs well and the bus pulls. We didn’t expect the remarkable story which was about to be told to us about the gearbox....
Mallard is one of 35 Class A4 4-6-2 locomotives, designed in 1935 by Sir Nigel Gresley, for the London and North Eastern Railway (LNER) to work the East Coast Main Line, between London Kings Cross and Edinburgh, via York.
On 3 July 1938, Mallard pulling six coaches and a dynamometer car, set a world speed record for steam traction (indicated by the dynamometer) of 126 mph (202.8 km/h). The record still holds, today.
All 35 locomotives were withdrawn in the 1960s and a total of 6 escaped the cutter’s torch.
Mallard herself was added to the National Collection, because of her historical importance and Bittern, Union of South Africa and Sir Nigel Gresley were preserved privately. Dwight D. Eisenhower was donated to the US National Railroad Museum in Green Bay Wisconsin and Union of Canada was donated to the Canadian Railway Museum in Delson/Saint-Constant Quebec.
In 2013, to mark the 75th anniversary of Mallard’s record breaking run, the National Railway Museum in York arranged for the temporary repatriation of the two North American locomotives and all six were brought together for ‘The Great Gathering’ at the NRM. This was the first time that all 6 preserved A4 locos had been seen together, since the 1960s.
Mallard herself later went on a tour of various locations in the UK. I managed to see her at Doncaster (and sit in the driver’s seat), where she was built and at Barrow Hill Roundhouse, in addition to the NRM.