LNER class A4 steam locomotive 4489, NRM Shildon, County Durham. 2014

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LNER class A4 steam locomotive 4489, NRM Shildon, County Durham. 2014
LNER class A4 steam locomotive 4489, NRM Shildon, County Durham. 2014

LNER class A4 steam locomotive 4489 (BR 60010) 'Dominion of Canada' on display at NRM Shildon, County Durham. Friday 28 March 2014.

4489 along with 60008 were temporarily returned to England to take part in the 'Mallard 75' celebrations held at York during 2013 in which all six surviving A4 locomotives were reunited for the event.

Like many UK enthusiasts I would have liked 4489 to have stayed in Great Britain. The Americans and Canadians have an extremely bad reputation for not looking after ex British locomotives and trams which were exported in the 1960’s. 4489 had spent most of its time in store and away from the general public at the Canadian Railway Museum, Montreal. The custodians had no respect for the loco whatsoever hence the appalling condition it arrived back here in during 2012. It would have been great if an obscure law could have been found to prevent it being returned to Canada or if someone had made the CRM an offer that they could not refuse in order to keep it here. Hopefully when returned it not be forgotten about and left to rot for another 50 years.

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Taken on: March 28, 2014
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