The Golden Mile – Bletchley to Bedford Line DVD: Farewell to Semaphore Signals

Sir Nigel Gresley \u2013 No. 60007 DVD: 2025 Update\nThis new edition in the Great Steam Locomotive series\nwitnesses the A4 following its overhaul between 2015 and 2021.\nWe see it in service and on test at the Severn Valley\nRailway in 2022 where it was turned out in wartime black and numbered 4498.\nAfter a repaint into early BR blue livery, the locomotive\nattended an Easter event at the Nene Valley Railway in 2023 followed by main\nline charters in the north west and south west which took the engine to\nKingswear on several occasions. \nNo. 60007 Sir Nigel Gresley last ran in BR service in the\nmid-1960s after which it was purchased for preservation by the A4 Locomotive\nSociety. \nIt was unusually, overhauled and restored to LNER garter\nblue livery as No. 4498 at the former LMS Crewe works in 1967, which still had\nsteam expertise available. \nIt then returned to BR tracks to haul enthusiast\u2019s\nspecials, something which it has been renowned for ever since.\nSir Nigel Gres.