#LNER V2

[thesteamw0rks]

an au gordon, maybe...?

just an idea, gordon as a lner v2.....

maybe i'll do henry as a lner b17

[hazel-of-sodor]

Presenting the LNER V2!

[greateasternj69]

Redraw of an old piece I did back in 2017 featuring one of my oldest locomotive characters. Silver Lady The LNER A4.

Golden Plover: "Sis garter blue is not that bad of a colour really, I think it looks very beautiful on all of us."

Silver Lady: "Well I don't! Must we all be wearing this disgusting common blue we've all been forced to wear as standard, instead of keep some of our class such as myself in the liveries we originally came out in when we were finished being built! I look hideous!"

Golden Plover: "It's up tops orders I'm afraid Silver Lady and we can't do anything about it. Besides the Silver and Apple Green liveries were very difficult for the cleaners to keep clean and shining, and you know we A4's are express engines, so we must always keep up appearances before our daily express runs. As our CME usually say's to us cleanliness comes before usefulness, and you look fine in your new livery."

Silver Lady: *Scoffs* "No Golden Plover I do not! I look like the rest of your batch, and doesn't make me stand out from any of you! It doesn't match with the colour of my coaches who are apart of the train I haul, and it's name happens to be the 'Silver Jubilee' meaning that it's meant to be an all Silver coloured consist throughout complete with engine to match! So, I'm supposed to be this beautiful, good looking, shiny Silver streamlined engine who pulls a consist of streamlined coaches with a matching livery, and the right one too! I' am not good looking right now! As my livery doesn't match my consist, making the point of it's namesake pointless, as I look like a blue whale who's pulling a mismatched train with the wrong colour, and to add to that my make up doesn't match up as well! So, honestly the passengers will think I look terrible, because I do look like it!"

Golden Plover: "Sister, I know you really liked your Silver livery as it always made you feel good about your appearance. But having a matching livery just to match a consist of coaches of a named train which has a name associated with that colour, doesn't really matter at the end of the day. As the passenger's won't mind what colour their engine in front is in, as long as they have the right engine to pull their train, and it arrives at it's destination on time. So, I suggest you get over it sis and just live with wearing the wrong colour for your coaches."

Silver Lady: "Easy for you to say Plover! But I don't accept being in this livery that easily, and oh look my express is ready. So, I can't waste time complaining about how awful this livery is, and how much I hate wearing it all day. So good day Plover, and I'll see you later this evening when I'll continue complaining about this disgusting blue to you and the others." *Steams off for the station with grumpiness boiling inside her.*

Golden Plover: "She'll learn eventually."

Silver Lady as everyone knows, has always been identified as a Silver Streak in preservation due to her wearing her iconic LNER Silver livery, which is her most preferred colour to wear as it represents her time pulling the Silver Jubilee streamlined express service between London and Newcastle during the late thirties, and was the first livery she wore after rolling out of the works in 1936.

However, despite Silver being the livery she is identified in, Silver Lady has worn many different liveries throughout her service life like most of her siblings. From wartime black to BR Brunswick Green with her having varying opinions on each one she wore. Her latest favourite livery and the one she's always had a huge distaste of wearing, happens to be LNER Garter Blue livery. She never liked being painted in that livery as to her it looked ugly and hideous, and happened to become the standard livery for her class, that she was forced into wearing due to the cleaners seeing it as a much easier livery to clean than the Silver livery she adored so much. Fueling her dislike for the livery as she saw it as lackluster, didn't match with her name and the name of the express service she usually pulled and had become so common among her class that it seemed forced for them to wear only one paint colour.

Silver Lady also thought the livery ruined her trains image, as she used to believe that everything had to match with the livery of the coaches she usually pulled behind her, and the passengers would find it appealing that there was a mismatched painted A4 pulling the train up in front that seemed out of place and didn't match the coaches, to the point where she thought they would laugh at her for looking odd among the rake of silver coaches. This idea give her constant anxiety to where one day, while an LMS 4F was complementing her livery while saying how it didn't match her coaches while waiting at Peterborough, she angrily left her train on a siding, and run away down the LMS's line to Birmingham. Arriving at Leicester where she run into who would become her first mate, LMS Princess Coronation Class No. 6220 Coronation, who had been taking time off to casually explore the line and to use it to sneak onto LNER metals for an adventure.

When Silver Lady told him what she was going through with her new livery, Coronation helped her learn that it didn't matter how she looked for her trains and that no one will judge her for looking different than what she would usually prefer to look, as it was the inside of her hiding underneath that livery that brought out her true beauty of herself and her class at the end of the day regardless of what livery she wore. This helped Silver Lady to appreciate the engine she truly was on the inside, and to accept that she won't always be in the livery she preferred to be in, and she would have wear any livery regardless of what she thought of it, even if it was one she very much disliked like the Garter Blue livery she was wearing. In the end although she still disliked blue, it didn't bother her that much anymore if she had to wear it, even when she was painted into it again after the war for a short period.

When Silver Lady was preserved by the North Ousingham Railway, she was grateful for when she was restored to her original Silver livery, and she remained in that colour for many years afterwards, though she did wear garter blue again briefly in 1990 so as to impress her second mate, but was returned to Silver the year after and has never changed it again since.

Silver Lady and Art © GreatEasternJ69

[british-rail-official]

Why do our snow ploughs look like they were designed by an Evil Villain

(also I heard that apparently these snow ploughs were converted from old tenders which is cool)

had to look that up but yeah! v2 bits in there. maybe its because the conversions were done at swindon on lner locos that they look that evil

anyway here's a comment on the railway museum article i saw that i feel is relevant

[bolters-and-rivets]

if the year were say 1959 and I was talking shop with some enthusiasts at the Peterborough station and expressed my fondness for the Raven Pacifics, would I leave the platform alive or would i be sacrificed to the first a4 that happened to come along?

The Raven pacifics were seen as oversized and underpowered compared to the Gresley A1s (this is untrue, they were largely on-par with the A1s, but Gresley simply had the pick of choosing the LNER's standard express engine and naturally went with his own design), but they were otherwise regarded as attractive looking machines, though you'd be about 22 years too late to go looking for trouble as they were all withdrawn by 1937 and replaced by V2s.

[guerrerense]

Doncaster South Yorkshire 20th May 2023 por loose_grip_99 Por Flickr: I was in Doncaster for the AGM of the Great Central Railway Society (GCRS) - no connection with the GCR at Loughborough but a society that fosters interest & research into the same Victorian/Edwardian railway company. The meeting was held at the new museum and library in Waterdale. Doncaster once the home of the GNR/LNER Plant loco works shamefully preserved none of the over 2200 steam engines built there so this railway museum is a welcome addition. The two large exhibits seen here were both built at the Plant; GNR C1 4-4-2 Large Atlantic in 1902 and LNER V2 2-6-2 4771 in 1936. Part of the large Doncaster Grammar School collection of railwayana, including numerous name and numberplates, is also on display.

[hazel-of-sodor]

So I obsess over engines on like a weekly basis, but heres some.

1. The most recent:GWR River class, specifically No.69 Avon, who will be aplearing in -A Screech in the Night' bc screw you I'm saving her.

2.LNER A2/1. Thompson's planned successor to the V2. Just quirky, oddly lovely engines.

3.Earl of Cadwor -a GWR engine fit with a unique cab and boiler for use on hills. It was later converted back but look at her! Yes I'm an LNER fangirl why do you ask?

4. Highland Railway Clan Class. The most beautiful british 4-6-0s. Just yes.

5. Gresley P1. Cackles in tractive effort. A 2-8-2 version of the A1 pacific. Yeeesssss.

6. This friendly little mogul is converted into a diesel switcher in Louisiana, and served in that condition until at least the late 70s. 11/10 shes doing her best <3

7. L&YR class 7 Atlantic's. Nicknamed high fliers due to their abnormally high boiler postition and high speed, these were regularly clocked at over 90mph, and two claimed 100 before turo did. Also my beta calls them giraffes.

8. QJ. Just the steam engine. Wonderful. Best thing China ever made. I want one. Theres actually three in America, and I need to see them.

9.Turbomotive my beloved. Found a custom oo model on ebay and I've been in love ever since. Crews called her Gracie Fields (after a famous singer at the time) due to her unique exhaust beat.

10.GT3. A gas turbine Loco, this is just so precious. An engine that was loved by crews, but she took so long to build modern styles of diesels were already around. Imagine if she had been built quickly.

Alright people! I have a question for you all.

What locomotive (Steam/Diesel/Electric/Whatever) do you love like it's a favourite of yours, or love so much that it could almost be call an obsession?

(That's a bad thing btw)

For me it's the:

NBR H Class Atlantics

GWR 4000 Class

PRR T1

LNER A1/A3's

VR S Class

[sodorgazette]

Guest Engine Spotlight - Green Arrow

LNER Class V2 #4771

The first of the once numerous V2 class, a close cousin to the famous A1 and A3 Pacifics. The V2s had smaller driving wheels and shorter boilers. Initially built for fast goods trains but were upgraded to Express Mixed Traffic due to their their reliable performance, and 184 were made from 1936 to 1944.

The first V2 Engine was named Green Arrow, the same name as the Fast Freight service it ran with the following four V2s. Only 7 other engines of this class received names.

The V2 engines were well regarded; in prime condition they could almost match Pacifics in speed and they came in highly useful during World War 2, still manufactured in spite of the limitations of the times. They were capable of pulling trains of 20 carriages weighing over 700 tons and beyond. Unfortunately, the toll taken on both engines and the rails themselves caused incidents after the war, and attempts to improve the engines were ultimately aborted with the emerging diesel locomotives of the 1960′s.

Sadly, only the original Green Arrow was preserved, having been withdrawn from service in 1962 (four years before the very last V2s were withdrawn and promptly scrapped) and managed to avoid being written off as scrap at any point, instead housed in various locations with the intent to display as an exhibit. Today, Green Arrow is standing as a static exhibit in Doncaster Museum on a 3-year loan from the National Rail Museum. While Green Arrow needs repairs to be able to go back on the rails, it looks hopeful that it will receive them sooner or later.

In the Railway Series, Green Arrow appears in Thomas and the Great Railway Show. Green Arrow is presented with an agreeable personality and quickly befriends Thomas. As one of the residents of the National Railway Museum, he is chosen to pull passenger trains as part of the show. He and Thomas would later double head a passenger train in the last chapter of that book, and the two of them manage to avoid an accident where the rails ahead were damaged.

Further Reading / Information and Picture Sources:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LNER_Class_V2 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LNER_Class_V2_4771_Green_Arrow https://ttte.fandom.com/wiki/Green_Arrow https://drawingdatabase.com/lner-class-v2-4771-green-arrow/ https://www.lner.info/locos/V/v2.php

[shinygoku]

It’s real hard to pick out a Favourite Engine Class when most of them have only got non flattering grainy greyscale pictures that don’t show their livery or accent features or often even the scale of them relative to an average adult. :(

Not to mention that tracking down info about them is quite a crapshoot where only the big famous types will have any level of detail >:T

Oh, and I’m only referring to British Standard Gauge here. If I included other sizes and other country offerings I’d be looking forever lol

[tornadoyoungiron]

What's the deal with Green Arrow?

Young Iron AU - Green Arrow a little history 😘

His class got kinda ignored and belittled by the bigger Gresley’s and he’s always been underestimated or pushed to the side. Green Arrow’s the first and last of the Gresley LNER V2’s and the most famous. A lot of them didn’t really understand why Arrow was preserved but otherwise just ignored him. He got to shine a few times and he has a significant fanbase of his own. One of his favourite moments was pulling the train with Thomas and befriending him.

Arrow became Director Richard Dover’s favourite engine and he was pushed into the limelight and became the leading icons of the NRM for a while. That was until the Flying Scotsman entered the Museum’s collection and took his place and the restoration that was promised to him. Because of this, Arrow grew hateful and nasty as he was locked in a shed. He became ever more bitter as the Scotsman took over the role of Museum ✨ IDOL ✨ and had all the money throw his way while Arrow became in desperate need of repairs. He began to spread rumours and tell lies about the other engines, trying to make other engines look bad and try them against each other while trying to set himself up to return to one as of the museums star attractions.

Eventually the other engines caught on to his deceptive nature and shunned him. It didn’t stop him from trying to get one up on others though as he was very good at talking his way out of things and charming other engines with his sweet word play. People often underestimate his intelligence and his ability to trick people into revealing unflattering things about themselves.

When Tornado came on the scene, the other big engines practically shunned her, calling her a ‘fake’ engine or not a true engine. She befriended and hung out with the smaller engines as a result however Arrow approached her with a genuine desire to befriend her. Tornado and Green Arrow became close friends to which Arrow would cherish her and become unhealthily protective of her, to the point of trying to keep the bigger engines for befriending her.

After Arrow lied to her and was pressured into insulting her, Tornado was deeply hurt and cut all ties with him, leaving his friendless and now having all the smaller engines against him as they all adored Tornado. Tornado was brought into the Museum’s inner circle with the Scotsman and Truro, thus separating them even further.

Green Arrow then went on to try and scrap Flying Scotsman which lead to him being locked in a shed indefinitely before Richard Dover tried to steal him to save him from being scrapped by Cain. He was stored at Crewe where someone removed his voice box, causing him to become mute before being sent to Sodor as a loan to assist the growing workload on the Island.

To say the Sudrian engines did not approve of him was an understatement as they constantly bullied him with the exception of Thomas, Edward, BoCo and Salty.

Fun facts:

~ He’s probably one of the most intelligent and clever of the mainland engines. The dude is smart and knows it too.

~ He’s also one of the hardest workers. His work ethic is literally insane. He gives Duck a run for his money, so much so that Duck is secretly impressed with him, though he’d never tell him that.

- He might be smaller than Engines like Henry or Gordon but he can be just as strong as they are.

~ His class’s wheels are sensitive to poor tracks which often lead to him being derailed or accidents. Because of this he’s only allowed on the newer tracks which lead to him kind of acting like a Karen at times complaining about poorly kept railways.

[airmanisr]

LNER 2-6-2 V2 Class No 4771 'Green Arrow' by Alan Wilson Via Flickr: Designed by Sir Nigel Gresley. Built at Doncaster works in 1936 and finally withdrawn from service in 1962. In BR service it was numbered 60800. Now on display at the National Railway Museum, York. 22-02-2013

[teotalksaboutstuff]

All Engines Go: RWS-y AU

I know people hate the reboot but I was thinking I could do a little AU for it to make it at least tolerable. This AU massively changes some of the main fleet. If a member of the fleet is not listed here, assume they have the same backstory as the canon RWS/TVS. The international engines were one off visitors that visited as part of the Big World, Big Adventures railtour program that launched in 2018.

Pre NWR Engines: Clive and Matthew were still scrapped in 1901 as per my headcanons for the pre-NWR railways. Neil was at first in charge of the main line alongside Thomas. He survived this and in the early 1920s became the track maintenance engine, a position he still holds. Colin, Lily, Adam, and Maeve still run the Brendam branch line to this day assisted by BoCo, and the Coffee Pot engines end up the same as they did in my HCs. They all kept their old liveries and numbers, and have done to this day.

Thomas (No. 1) has much the same backstory as he did in the RWS. However, unlike in canon, Edward did not arrive on the railway at the same time as Thomas in this AU, so Thomas was entirely responsible for the NWR’s construction. When the railway eventually opened, he was essentially in charge of the entire main line along with Neil. He’d be put on station pilot duties at Vicarstown in the early 1920s when the loaned engines arrived, and then transferred to the Ffarquhar line in 1925 to get him away from them when it was realized how awful they were.

The Loaned Engines: Of course, the loaned engines still came in the early 1920s. Unlike in canon, they would only be sent away when the Flying Kipper accident happened in 1935 (it was Alfred/98462 at the head of the train in this AU and he was scrapped afterwards. City of Vicarstown was also sent for scrap at this time. 87546, Winston, and Baldwin had the same fate as in my HCs for the loaned engines). They were still just as horrible to Thomas and the elder engines as they were in (head)canon, with Winston and Baldwin continuing to be the exceptions to this.

James (No. 2) also has the exact same backstory as he did in the RWS, as an experimental L&YR class 28 that arrived in 1925.

Percy (No. 3) arrived at the same time as James and became the station pilot at Tidmouth when Thomas was transferred to the Ffarquhar branch line.

Henry (No. 4) and Gordon (No. 5) were built in 1935 for the NWR in the immediate aftermath of the Flying Kipper accident They are the prototypes of the LNER Class V2 in this AU. Henry is still much the same as he was post-rebuild in canon, and Gordon’s persona is also similar to canon. 

Edward (No. 6) only arrived in 1949 when the NWR ordered an experimental Leader-class locomotive from the Southern Railway’s works. When delivered, he wasn’t especially successful, as he was quite difficult to maintain operationally. After about a year of this, he was rebuilt into a conventional Meyer 0-6-0+0-6-0 tank engine, and has been a proud member of the main line fleet ever since.

[hazel-of-sodor]

Presenting the LNER M3 Mountain! Based on this post from Sodor's Safety Record. I gave them V2 tenders so they could fit on smaller turntables.

[feigeroman]

Thomas OCs: Errol

Number: 46 (ex-BR 61937) Class: LNER Gresley K3 2-6-0 Built: 1935 Arrived on Sodor: 1963 Service (Shed): NWR Main Line (Vicarstown) Livery: NWR Local Passenger Green

Errol is one of a number of engines based at the far end of the NWR. He’s surprisingly fast and powerful for his size, and he’s usually to be found on fast goods trains. Sometimes, though, Errol will be called upon to handle sudden additions to the passenger timetable - up to and including expresses, much to the chagrin of Gordon!

Errol can best be described as a gallant sort, in both senses of the word. On the one hand, he behaves in a chivalrous, charming manner towards his fellow engines - most of whom like him enough to reciporate his behaviour, although there are some exceptions. On the other hand, he can also be gallant in the heroic sense when he puts his mind to it, striving to get a job done, whatever the odds. Errol also has an affinity for Jazz music (the K3s were known as Jazzers, due to the syncopated exhaust beat created by their three cylinders), and in his downtime can often be seen discussing the subject with fellow Jazz freaks Rhonda (NWR #52) and Jasmine (NWR #60). Or at least, they’re content to let him sit in on their discussions, even though he’s barely able to keep up with their near-encyclopedic knowledge.

Errol was built in 1935, and spent most of his formative years working around the LNER’s Great Northern section. He’s believed to have mainly worked in the York area, and rarely strayed any further north. His main duties were fast freight trains serving the industrial North East, although he was sometimes to be found on semi-fast passenger trains as well.

Fast goods services were curtailed during the Second World War, and when they were finally resumed afterwards, the K3s were displaced from this work by the newer V2s. They were instead used on more of the slower services, and Errol was no exception. Around 1948, he was transferred to Carlisle Canal sheds, from which he is believed to have worked mainly on the main line to Newcastle.

Apart from a brief spell at March (near Cambridge) in 1959, Errol spent the rest of his BR career at Carlisle Canal, until he was withdrawn from service in 1960. He was kept in use as a stationary boiler at the depot for the next couple of years, and this allowed him to survive long enough to be purchased by the NWR in 1963, as part of Sir Topham Hatt’s bulk purchasing scheme of the 1960s.

When Errol finally entered NWR service later that year, he was initially allocated to Tidmouth, so that he could help Gordon with his express services - the intention being to reallocate him to fast freight services once he’d gotten used to his new surroundings. Unfortunately, Gordon became greatly paranoid upon hearing this proposal, thinking that the plan was for Errol to supplant, rather than supplement him. Errol himself didn’t exactly help, as he unintentionally unnerved Gordon further with his confidence - and indeed, his competence. In fact, Errol did end up replacing Gordon, albeit only briefly. One day, having let his paranoia get the better of him, and while attempting to prove his superiority, Gordon pushed himself too far, and ended up bursting a valve. Errol was called to rescue the train, and later took over the service entirely while Gordon was being repaired. Upon his return, Gordon apologized to Errol, thanked him for keeping things going, and wished him good luck on his reallocation to Vicarstown.

That being said, Errol did return to Tidmouth some time later, this time to give Henry a hand with the Flying Kipper during a particularly busy fishing season. As the loads of fish had become too heavy for Henry to handle alone, the idea this time was for him and Errol to split the workload between them, and run two separate trains. This worked well enough in practice for the first week, but then something strange happened during the second week - all of Henry’s runs were riddled with problems, while Errol’s were practically trouble-free. After worrying about a possible curse, Henry then suspected possible sabotage on Errol’s part. In the end, though, the trouble was put down to their respective brake vans. The Flying Kipper usually had two NWR-built Toads assigned to it, each on alternate nights. One, Maru, was always good at looking after her trains, while the other, Marnie, didn’t care nearly as much. This turned out to be the reason for Henry’s various incidents, and Errol’s lack thereof - the former had had Marnie on the back of his trains, while the latter had had Maru. A brake van swap was arranged, and when Errol finally ran late, it confirmed that Marnie was indeed to blame. The matter was soon resolved by Errol receiving another brake van, and when the loads decreased to the point where Henry could work alone again, he and Errol parted on good terms. To this day, Errol still helps with the Flying Kipper during busy periods, although now he and Henry work the service on alternate days.

Trivia

Errol has his roots in one of my BR-based OCs, a V2 by the name of Monica. She was part of a story idea of mine which largely followed the Flying Kipper saga detailed above. I’m not sure why I scrapped her, although I suspect I wanted to replace the V2 with something that would provide more even competition against Henry.

I went with the K3 for three main reasons:

Firstly, its power output was near enough to that of the Black Five to provide that even competition.

The class was mainly used for fast goods trains, including fish trains from many of the LNER’s eastern ports. So something like the Flying Kipper would be perfectly in line with those duties.

I just liked the look of the class.

The reason he became an NWR engine was because I wasn’t sure just how an ex-LNER engine would turn up there if they were just visiting. I know that hasn’t stopped me in the past, but this seemed to be an important consideration at the time.

The name Errol was simply chosen because it seemed to suit the personality I’d given him. For the sake of that story, I imagined him being an overconfident, Peter Perfect from Wacky Races kind of character. Or at least that’s the type of voice I envisioned him having.

Errol Flynn was well-known for playing such characters, so that might have had something to do with it as well.

[scaberdoodle]

So, my oc is john, a train engineer for the lner. He’s a kind person, up for helping anyone. He tends to wear his heart on his sleeve, so he sometimes get taken advantage of. He can be unintentionally blunt about thing though, and doesn’t always realize what he said was hurtful. He was born april 1904, and started working for the lner at 19. He had nearly quit a couple of times during training, but got through it. He enjoyed his time on the lner, driving mostly older engines early in his career. It wasn’t until he was about 34/5 that he’d drive a new locomotive of a new class, named green arrow, an lner v2. The pair became fairly comfortable with each other, though not quite friends. They’d see the second world war together, and they’d get much closer during this period, as they hardly were apart. They’d stay this way til john’s eventual passing.

TELL ME ABOUT YOUR OCs PLEASE!!!!!!!!!! WRITE A DESCRIPTION ABOUT THEM!!! ALSO READ THE COMMENTS AND COMPLIMENT OTHER PEOPLE ON THEIR RAD OCs!!!!!!!

[guerrerense]

Ex-LNER Gresley V2 2-6-2 no. 4771 "Green Arrow" departs Marylebone with a Stratford upon Avon bound Shakesepeare Limited Sunday luncheon train on 16th August 1987 por Ian Duffield Por Flickr: 4771 - Marylebone 16-08-1987 R1043bw Olympus OM40 (film) Fujichrome colour slide scanned to digital