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Posted: 07 Nov 2018

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The great gathering! - Shildon Railway Museum

The great gathering! - Shildon Railway Museum
Five of the six A4 locomotives still in existence are visible here in one picture. The sixth is out of shot to the left.
They are 6008 Dwight D Eisenhower, 60009 Union of South Africa, 4489 Dominion of Canada, 4464 Bittern, 4468 Mallard.
Not visible in this picture is 60007 Sir Nigel Gresley

Wierd Folkersma, Gudrun, Annemarie, SV1XV and 10 other people have particularly liked this photo

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 Nick Weall
Nick Weall
What a collection Peter ~ A great gathering indeed :) All the best ~ Nick
7 years ago.
Peter_Private_Box club has replied to Nick Weall
Thank you Nick,

A once in a lifetime experience! Let us hope the little girl in the red coat remembers something of the day when she gets older.

Best wishes
Peter
7 years ago.
 Erhard Bernstein
Erhard Bernstein club
Wow - a great collection indeed!
7 years ago.
Peter_Private_Box club has replied to Erhard Bernstein club
Thank you Erhard

Certainly a day not to be missed! I did get a photo with all six in it, just for the memory, but there was a lot of thought put into the arrangement to make it very difficult.. (Unless you paid a massive amount of money for a night photography permit, when they lined them up nicely for you)

Best wishes
Peter
7 years ago.
 Steve D
Steve D
What a smashing shot here Peter .. a rare scene indeed and a lovely record of the event .. saved in fav's by me also

Best wishes ... Steve
7 years ago.
Peter_Private_Box club has replied to Steve D
Hi Steve,

Thank you so much! I am really pleased that you appreciated the effort to clear away all the extraneous people! I think Alan went to see these also..

Best wishes
Peter
7 years ago.
 Beatrice Degan(MARS)
Beatrice Degan(MARS)
Hi Peter ,
outstanding collection so strikingly caught with the little girl watching , surely amazed , at these locomotives so unusual for her ! I'm sure she will keep this experience in her mind.... for some years ( Imy 2 little grandchildren always shocks me with their memory worth Pico della Mirandola :-) and unexpectedly at a distance of years in a bright flashback.

Best wishes
Bea
7 years ago. Edited 7 years ago.
Peter_Private_Box club has replied to Beatrice Degan(MARS)
Hi Bea

Thank you so much for your most pleasing visit. You are so right, little children learn so much in their first few years.. Let us hope that one day this little girl remembers this one special day that these six locomotives were together.
I wish you a wonderful week ahead!

Best Wishes
Peter
7 years ago.
 Herb Riddle
Herb Riddle club
A fine gathering of these A4's here Peter. I saw Mallard in York Railway Museum just over twelve months back. Good luck in the CWP.

Cheers. Herb

ps Mallard: www.ipernity.com/doc/1081863/52715738
4 months ago.
Peter_Private_Box club has replied to Herb Riddle club
Hi Herb ,
Thank you very much!
Glad you like it.
Despite their best efforts to make it difficult, I did mange to get a photo of all six together. Cheaper then buying the official souvenir poster of them all...
But the most striking thing here is the dad taking his daughter to see the spectacle.
Best Wishes, a good 2026, and keep safe,
Peter
4 months ago.

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