2013

SE5951 : An exile returns

taken 11 years ago, near to York, England

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An exile returns
An exile returns
Former LNER Class A4 4.6.2 No. 4496 (BR No. 60008) "Dwight D Eisenhower" was built at Doncaster in 1937 and originally named "Golden Shuttle", being renamed in September 1945. Withdrawn by BR in July 1963, she was shipped to the United States for preservation at Green Bay, Wisconsin. Returned to the UK in 2013 for cosmetic restoration by the National Railway Museum, she is on loan to the NRM for two years. Information on NRM events centred on the surviving A4 locomotives can be found: LinkExternal link
The National Railway Museum (NRM)

The National Railway Museum in York displays a collection of over 100 locomotives and nearly 300 other items of rolling stock, virtually all of which either ran on the railways of Great Britain or were built here.

The museum first opened in 1975, housed in the huge former steam locomotive depot at Leeman Road next to the East Coast Main Line, near York railway station and only 700m from York Minster. In 1990, the Station Hall opened in York’s former railway goods depot across Leeman Road, nearly doubling the size of the museum in the process. The former diesel depot adjacent to the Great Hall was added as a store and in 1999 this was rebuilt to become “The Works”, providing public access to the Museum’s collections stores and workshops and a viewing gallery overlooking York Station. Today, the NRM is one of Britain’s busiest museums and is possibly the most popular railway museum in the world, attracting 931,000 visitors in 2013 LinkExternal link .


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The Carlisle Kid   (more nearby)
Date Taken
Thursday, 25 April, 2013   (more nearby)
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Sunday, 12 May, 2013
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OSGB36: geotagged! SE 593 519 [100m precision]
WGS84: 53:57.6358N 1:5.7978W
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OSGB36: geotagged! SE 593 519
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West-northwest (about 292 degrees)
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