#lner a1

[redgriffinsphotos]

Tornado at the Nene Valley Railway, February 2025

[maxwellscorner]

fun fact: one of Gordon's real life brothers was named Gay Crusader

I shouldn't have laughed at this, I'm so stupid

He is serving tho. I should draw him with Gordy and Flying Scotsman with a lovely colorful paint

[nelllia]

It's been a while since I drew with charcoal

LNER A1 Gresley Pacific, the class Gordon is based on

[lomotunes2008]

SPEED!! (Now featuring a little extra help)

[trainalt22]

A dictation of the National Rail Museum curator orientation of the class of 2015

The speaker is Doctor Ashton Collins, lead mechologist for the N.R.M.

[Recording start]

"The first of May 1925, Solario came to me today asking for a once-over. I found this odd because I had just finished maintenance on him not a week ago, but I'm not foolish enough to ignore my engines when they say something is wrong. He asked to speak with me in private. I eyed him warily but had my workshop cleared regardless. He said he was visited by a small purple tank engine the night before. From how he described this engine, it didn't match any I knew about, but I let him continue. He said that she had chosen him to be her guardian, that his kind heart and brave soul would be of great use, and then he paused, a look of contemplation on his face. I pressed for more, and he said she disappeared in a flash of golden light.

My expression must have been one of unamusement because Solario asked for a chance to prove what he saw was real. I was unsure of what he meant but allowed him to, and before I could object, a golden dust enshrouded him. I could see him start to fade. I must admit it gave me a shock. I fell from my stool, but something most peculiar happened. When the dust settled, before me where Solario was, a man stood, dressed in a green jacket with 'LNER' embroidered across the left breast pocket, while the right had '4473' across it, and his trousers matched the same green with black and white lining down the sides.

His hair was a blinding blonde, and he had eyes as green as his coat. I called out to him, worried about what had happened to my engine, but he proved his identity by reciting the conversation we had when he first awoke two years ago, and we talked at lengths about how he came to be like this. All I can say for now is this is most interesting."

An excerpt from Sir Nigel Gresley's journal taken from the LNER Archives

"I know what you all are thinking: Gresley must have had something stronger than tobacco in his pipe."

[Dispersed laughter is heard in the crowd]

"But you'll learn that stranger things happen here than just the errant railfan trying to get themselves locked in overnight, and it may shock you to find out that Gresley wasn't off his rocker when he wrote that entry in 1925. You ten have been selected because you have shown the most aptitude and drive to be curators to help look after these places of history. But a curator's job isn't just planning maintenance and events; sometimes this job can be more than what we signed up for.

Gold Dust is the lifeblood and souls of sentiences everywhere. Now before you write me off, allow me to demonstrate."

[Dr. Collins produces a small wooden box from the desk he's standing at and takes out a weathered conductor whistle]

"This is a conductor whistle. It was entrusted to the NRM after its owner passed. Now, while gold dust can be volatile if misused, it can be a useful tool for those who wield it."

[Dr. Collins wipes the mouthpiece with his sleeve before blowing into it. The whistle bathes him in a cloud of golden dust, and he disappears, causing the group to panic before he reappears in the back of the room]

"Pretty neat, right?"

[Dr. Collins's sudden reappearance startles the class]

"Sorry for the scare, everyone, but I'm guessing you're going to take what I say a little more seriously. Sure, every machine you have needs its fuel to run, but this is what keeps them alive; it's their soul. But while I am the Lead Mechologist, I think it more prudent for you to hear from someone who doesn't just use gold dust for cheap tricks. So please welcome Mrs. Morgan Merlin, or as you would know her, LNER 4468 Mallard."

[A tall, tanned woman in a dark blue suit and matching skirt with bright red heels walks into the room with a look of unamusement on her face]

"How many times do I have to tell you not to use gold dust for cheap tricks?"

"Ducky, I was just using it so they'd take me seriously."

"Get out and stop calling me Ducky."

[Dr. Collins leaves the room, shutting the door behind him. Mallard clears her throat before continuing]

"Now, a few things before we continue. 1. Yes, I'm the real Mallard; the one downstairs is a replica. 2. Yes, I can still use my engine form; I just haven't in a while. 3. Do NOT call me Ducky. Understood?"

[The group either nods or responds in the affirmative]

"Now, it is part of your job as curators to help us guardians complete our duties. As such, most of the UK's guardians and all remaining former guardians that survived scrap are stationed here. Myself, Evening Star, Lode Star, and Sterling Number One are all guardians, and I have been given their permission to talk about their status with you.

This brings us to another point. Knowledge about guardians is hush-hush. You tell no one other than those above you or your fellow curators this information. If fallen into the wrong hands, it could spell disaster for sentient machines everywhere.

Now..."

[Morgan writes on the chalkboard]

"Application of gold dust. Gold Dust has many uses, one being teleportation like you saw Dr. Collins demonstrate. However, it is not just for travel; it can be used for offense and defense as well."

[Golden dust envelopes Morgan's hand and condenses into a golden blade. She holds it up for the entire class to see]

"There are many dangers guardians face, many of them being supernatural in nature. Gold dust not only allows us to battle these threats if necessary, but it also defends us from them as well."

[Her "blade" disperses into a cloud of dust again, reshaping into a shield]

"As you may have already guessed, gold dust allows guardians to shed their mechanical forms and become human with an appearance based on both the physical attributes of whatever machine they are and their perception of themselves."

[Morgan disperses her shield, the dust seeps into her skin, then she gestures to herself]

"As you can see, my engine is in perfect condition, and I'm very confident in myself and my abilities. That's not to say that heavier-set guardians aren't confident with their forms; much like you humans, our forms still have a bit of an unknown factor when we transform into them for the first time. Things like skin tone, hair color, and eye color vary.

Some of you may have noticed I mentioned that guardians face off with the supernatural. One of our most common foes are wraiths. They are spirits of machines that have died and chosen not to travel on to the Grand Terminus, and instead choose to roam and seek out humans. I can assure you, you do not want to find yourself cornered by a wraith. There are not very many things in this world that will bring you a more painful demise.

The other type of enemy we face is called the Blighted. They range vastly from machine to machine, but they are the poor souls that have been unfortunate to have been infected with Crimson Rot. Their minds are subsumed by it; they become a husk of their former selves, attacking any machine to siphon their victim's gold dust, feeding the parasitic infection.

Make sure to check your machine carefully for unusual rust or rotting of wood or other such materials, especially if they work in or around a scrapyard. Crimson Rust likes to fester in scrapyards to drain what little gold dust dying machines have left."

[Morgan's watch beeps twice, causing her to sigh]

"We will explain the rest of a guardian's duties in the next class, so do be there. Class dismissed."

[End of recording]

[hazel-of-sodor]

Presenting the LNER A1/A3 Pacific!

[the-time-lord-oracle]

Thomas' derailment in Thomas gets Bumped was based on a real accident. On June 5th 1950, LNER A1 class No. 60153 was hauling a Newcastle-King's Cross express when she was derailed at Tollerton due to track that had distorted in the summer heat. Thankfully, no one was killed, but nine passengers and 60153's driver and fireman were injured, though they all made full recoveries. Thomas' mishap was rather less severe, as he remained upright, but the root cause was exactly the same. I used to think that track distorting due to heat would be impossible in the British climate, but it turns out that it did actually happen.

[redwryvernwrites]

Tornado in Blue

[engineer-gunzelpunk]

The real life Flying Scotsman was about to become a locomotive Freemason. Seriously.

"A little known fact is that in the late 1990s, when the steam engine "Flying Scotsman" (LNER 4472) was in masonic ownership, there was a serious plan to revive the Warrant of United Gauges Lodge No 4472, in order to authorise a travelling lodge to meet in connection with special steam services operated by the locomotive of the same number. Sadly this ambitious plan was never completed."

I had been doing some interesting research into some headcanons to do with how the engines in the RWS attain life; in the midst of this research, I half-seriously made my humanised Gordon and Flying Scotsman chars in my personal AU to be locomotive Freemasons. But then I find this interesting little tidbit of IRL information about railway Masonic lodges, and I had no idea that this was an actual thing that they were going to do with Scotty...

Gordon and Scotty at the Lodge. Even here, "Little Brother" stews in irritation.

[edwardthomasnw]

Been on an A1/A3 kick as of late, and 'Grande Parade' has drawn my interest

The original 2744 was built in 1928, entering service in August. She had 9 and a bit years of incident-free service until the Castlecary Rail Disaster, 10th December 1937. Going light on the details of the event for the purposes of this post, but the damage to 2744 was sufficient for Doncaster to just build a whole new engine.

Ouch.

The replacement (scroll to Works Visits or Summary for the mention) fared rather better, lasting through to BR days racking up 25 years and 7 months of service.

See also: The locomotive was recovered and taken to Cowlairs Works where it took some time to restore it to a condition in which it could be towed to Doncaster. The January 1938 Railway Observer reported that work had begun on the erection of a replacement locomotive at Doncaster, although the remains of the original were still at Cowlairs. From an accounting perspective this was a “repair” of the original but in practice it was a completely new locomotive assembled largely from stock components. The locomotive emerged from Doncaster Works on 14th April 1938 carrying a boiler that had last seen use on A3 2544 “Lemberg” whilst the tender had last been attached to A1 2579 “Dick Turpin”. The June 1938 Railway Observer states that new motion, stamped “2744”, had been provided and that the works plate fitted to the replacement locomotive, proclaimed it to be Doncaster 1694 of 1928.

The original locomotive reached Doncaster on 2nd April 1938 where it was dismantled with anything reusable going into the pool of spare parts. The boiler was overhauled and subsequently emerged fitted to A3 2749 “Flamingo” during its next works visit whilst the tender eventually emerged from the works attached to A3 2752 “Spion Kop”. (Also a bit of a scroll there so just copied the relevant bit)

Considering what the RWS interpretation of that would be, cause like. Henry.

I've got my own headcanon for henhouse, but this is rather different as it's literally stated to be a replacement. They started a new one before the original was brought back.

Just kinda wondering there as to whether you could say something of the 1928 engine went across, what with the Works Plates being the same and all, or if the on-paper-repair-but-actually-brand-new thing would put it in the more literal variant of the "Two Henry's" thing.

In the latter case, how would the other A1s & A3s take it? How would the new engine themself handle it?

Discuss

[engineer-gunzelpunk]

This part really interests me...

"A little known fact is that in the late 1990s, when the steam engine "Flying Scotsman" (LNER 4472) was in masonic ownership, there was a serious plan to revive the Warrant of United Gauges Lodge No 4472, in order to authorise a travelling lodge to meet in connection with special steam services operated by the locomotive of the same number. Sadly this ambitious plan was never completed."

Every trade should have their own esoteric/masonic tradition. I want to know what irrigation engineering says about the nature of god.

[redgriffinsphotos]

Tornado at the Nene Valley Railway, October 2024

[maxwellscorner]

🚂💚 Fancy Green Engines and their fancy Smoke Reflectors 🍏 💨

Wanted to test how I'd add types of smoke reflectors into my humanized (?) mecha (?) designs of engines, so I used as test subjects our dearest Flying Scotsman, Southern's Lord Nelson and LNER's Tornado

[agent-gladhand]

"For a long while he has been hoarse and exhausted with crying; but he still goes on screaming, and there is no knowing when he will stop." Sleepy (1888) - Anton Chekhov

Something meant to be a small style study in Limbus's asset styles that I thought too hard about so subjecting the masses to it now.

I started this like months ago and picked at drawing this on and off. To give you an idea of how long this was- This was going off the original mugshot art (the new ones are really fitting but I still really like the old versions for the expressions) and the concept of the team of OC sinners he's a part of was originally called LCE (Limbus Company Express)... and then LCB Regular Checkup happened like two months later, oops... So now it's LCF (Limbus Company Freight)!

LCF works in the outskirts, basically like a survey team looking for anything interesting out in the Hellscape™ that Limbus might be interested, for one reason or another. The group is similar to LCB in that they'll get into as much trouble as possible (intentionally or not), led by a mystery person without a human head, and ride around in a vehicle with an engine fueled by enkephalin (a prototype of the Mephistopheles, the Goethe, looks more like a LNER Class A4 than a LNER Class A1 which I think is what Mephi is similar to visually). As for the boy...

"This sinner was discovered in the Outskirts, with little awareness or knowledge of the City. He often displaying curiosity on the subject and inquiring to those who seem knowledgeable, it is encouraged to educate him when necessary. He takes a very cautious and weary defense to others, understandable with the state he was initially found in. Navigating this sinner's boundaries will take a careful approach, we recommend a gentle hand in guidance and patience when dealing with him."

Template used for the mugshot and poster graphics is from @/thread-theocracy, can be found here!

[chishnfips87]

If P:EG Characters Were Trains

(There goes my train autism)

I'm a TTTE fan, been one since I was a wee lad. Ever since then, any series I'd take interest in would have a vast array of characters (Danganronpa, Smash Bros, The MCU, etc.). What my brain likes to think about is 'What if these characters from [insert x series] was in [other series i like]?'

And it got me thinking 'Since I'm on a strong P:EG kick, what would they be if they had British train basis's?'

So yeah, that's what this post is.

Damon Maitsu - LMS Ivatt Class 2 2-6-0

Wolfgang Akire - LNER Class A1 Pacific

Grace Madison - GNR C1 Atlantic

Eva Tsunaka - SR Q1 Class

Kai Monteago - Caledonia Railway Class 652

Cassidy Amber - BR Class 04

Ingrid Grimwall - BR Standard Class 9F

Jett Dawson - NSR Battery-Electric No. 1

Mark Berskii - BR 11001

Toshiko Kayura - Avonside 0-4-0ST

Wenona - NER 66 Aerolite

Ulysses Wilhelm - LNER Class J70

Jean DeLamer - LNER Class A4 Pacific

Eloise Taulner - Hunslet Austerity 0-6-0ST

Desmond Hall - L&YR Class 28

Diana Venicia - Furness Railway K2 Class

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And of course Tozu is Sir Topham Hatt lol

[togetherness23]

salmon trout. one of the flying scotsman’s sister engines is named salmon trout .

wikipedia’s list of LNER class A1/A3 locomotives