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60007 Sir Nigel Gresley is based at the Crewe depot of Locomotive Services Ltd in order to operate mainline railtours around the UK. The locomotive makes visits to galas and events at heritage railways two or three times a year.


Sir Nigel Gresley Operational Schedule for 2025:

DATE EVENT BOOKINGS VIA (Click for details) 60007 INVOLVEMENT NOTES
22 to 25 and 27 to 30 March NYMR visit NYMR SNGLT Members' Day in April
Wed 30 April The White Rose; Barrow-in-Furness to York Saphos Trains 60007 Warrington - York - Warrington  
Wed 11 June Fellsman Crewe to Carlisle Saphos Trains 60007 Chester - Carlisle - Chester  
Wed 2 July Fellsman Blackpool North to Carlisle Saphos Trains 60007 throughout  
Wed 16 July Edinburgh Summer Explorer; Stoke-On-Trent - Edinburgh Saphos Trains 60007 Carlisle - Edinburgh - Carlisle
August / September Exhibition(s)     Provisional
Thu 14 August Fife-circle x2 (including Forth Bridge) (morning & evening trains) SRPS Railtours 60007 throughout  
Mon 18 August Fife-circle x2 (including Forth Bridge) (morning & evening trains) SRPS Railtours 60007 throughout  
Sat 23 August Edinburgh - Aberdeen & return SRPS Railtours 60007 throughout  
Mon 15 September Edinburgh Summer Explorer; Chester - Edinburgh Saphos Trains 60007 Carlisle - Edinburgh - Carlisle  
October Heritage Railway Gala     Provisional
Further updates and details of a heritage railway visit will be added when confirmed.

NB: This list is the ONLY official list of confirmed operations for 60007. While every effort will be made to keep this table up-to-date, occasionally arrangements can change at short notice.

Since preservation Sir Nigel Gresley has accumulated the following miles:

PERIOD LIGHT ENGINE TRAIN MILEAGE ANNUAL TOTAL SINCE LAST OVERHAUL ACCUMULATED
1967-2001 23,356 89,214 - - 114,750
OVERHAUL 2002-2006
2006 340 Heritage 4,320 4,660 4,660 119,230
2007 Nil Heritage 7,441 7,441 12,101 126,671
2008 2,252 Heritage 5,700
Mainline 2,183
10,135 22,236 136,806
2009 1,978 Heritage 6,438
Mainline 2,490
10,906 33,142 147,712
2010 707 Heritage 504
Mainline 1,991
3,202 36,344 150,914
2011 497 Heritage 590
Mainline 368
1,455 37,799 152,369
2012 495 Heritage 3,612 4,107 41,906 156,476
2013 350 Heritage 5,562 5,912 47,818 162,388
2014 1,501 Heritage 4,416
Mainline 849
6,766 54,584 169,155
2015 253 Heritage 5,220
Mainline 518
5,991 60,575 175,146
OVERHAUL 2015-2022
2021 (3) Mainline 3 3 3 175,149
2022 (1,136) Heritage 2,095
Mainline 2,492
4,587 4,590 179,736
2023 (1,199) Heritage 2,275
Mainline 3,182
5,457 10,057 187,525

N.B. Figures in brackets already included in Train Mileage figure(s) for that year

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News item 1 February 2025

SNGLT and SRPS Railtours announce steam train journeys return to Scotland

Britain's longest established operator of scenic railway excursions will, once again, offer the chance to travel on Steam hauled passenger trains over the world famous Forth Bridge, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, with the iconic LNER A4 Pacific steam locomotive 60007 Sir Nigel Gresley hauling the train.

No less than five special trains will run from Edinburgh Waverley during August including a trip to Aberdeen and along the beautiful Firth of Forth estuary.

SRPS Railtours and The Sir Nigel Gresley Locomotive Trust (SNGLT) in association with The Scottish Railway Preservation Society (SRPS) and Locomotive Services Ltd (LSL) are working together to provide these special trains from Edinburgh in August 2025.

Alasdair Eadington, Chairman of SRPS Railtours, said "I am delighted to announce that SRPS Railtours will be offering Steam hauled specials over the famous Forth Bridge during our 55th Anniversary Year with a very famous locomotive in the form of 60007 Sir Nigel Gresley, which last featured on one of our trains in 2011. This beautiful Gresley Pacific steam locomotive will work four services around the Firth of Forth and one return trip to Aberdeen over three dates in August."

Nigel Wilson, Chairman of SNGLT, said, "I am very pleased that we have this opportunity to work with SRPS and in particular, the return to Aberdeen, where Sir Nigel Gresley was based from 1962 until 1966 when it was purchased for preservation by SNGLT. I believe this will be our locomotive's first visit to the Granite City since 1974! The Trust aims to make our locomotive accessible to as wide an audience as possible and these tours will be a very special opportunity to experience a trip on the mainline network with Sir Nigel at the front."

For details and booking please see: SRPS Railtours

News item 24 January 2025

Tickets for to ride behind our locomotive when it visits the NYMR can be booked at: Sir Nigel Gresley | North Yorkshire Moors Railway - NYMR.
Tickets for the weekend trains in particular are selling quickly so book early to avoid disappointment.

Links to Realtime trains for two proposed E+C movements on 30th January are below:

Realtime Trains | 5Z07 0816 Crewe H.S. to Derby Litchurch Lane | 30/01/2025
Realtime Trains | 5Z08 1647 Derby Litchurch Lane to Crewe H.S. | 30/01/2025

News item 16 December 2024

Railways 200 'Whistle-up' Event

The Sir Nigel Gresley Locomotive Trust Ltd. (SNGLT) is pleased to announce its plans to support the Railways 200 Anniversary kick-off 'Whistle-up' event on 1st January 2025.

To celebrate the start of the anniversary year the Trust would welcome our Volunteers and Members and also members of the public to send us video clips of our locomotive sounding its iconic chime whistle. These should be submitted to the Trust via the email address: chairman@sirnigelgresley.org.uk, please send them before 11 am on 30th December 2024. Ideally please note location and date but this is not essential. The Trust will produce a collation of the submissions which will be published on 1st January 2025.

Submitted clips maybe in most common video formats, e.g. MPEG, MP3, WMV, AVHD, M2T etc. 1920 x 1080, 25 fps preferred. In order to keep file sizes compatible with email, clips should be restricted to the locomotive whistling plus circa 2 seconds before and after.

All clips used will be credited, please include in your submission details of a single line credit such as www.mywebsite.org.uk or Mr. Any Name or yourfacebook account etc.

Please note: by submitting video clips you authorize and grant to the Sir Nigel Gresley Locomotive Trust Ltd. ("SNGLT") the non-exclusive, irrevocable right to use, re-use, adapt, modify, exhibit, distribute, edit and otherwise exploit, them. You confirm that you hold the copyright to the submitted material. You expressly grant SNGLT a non-exclusive, world-wide, payment and royalty free, perpetual, and irrevocable all-media license to include all submited media.


News item 23 November 2024

Please note that last dates for placing online orders for sales items to ensure delivery by 24th December are:
Clothing orders: 1st December
All other orders: 7th December

News item 5 October 2024

The Sir Nigel Gresley Locomotive Trust appoints second full-time engineer.

The Sir Nigel Gresley Locomotive Trust Ltd. (SNGLT) is pleased to announce the appointment of Mr. David Allinson to the full-time role of Assistant Locomotive Engineer.

The appointment is to complement the work of the current Locomotive Engineer, Darrin Crone. The new role will focus on supporting the mainline and heritage railway operations of 60007 Sir Nigel Gresley, allowing Darrin to give more time to the upcoming overhaul of 60019 Bittern which, as announced last year, will be carried out in North Yorkshire by SNGLT under contract from its owner Jeremy Hosking.

David Allinson has recently worked with us as a volunteer, and has experience of working with another mainline locomotive group. He has a long volunteering history at the Tanfield Railway in various operational and management roles. David is a trained mechanical engineering technician being employed at some large engineering companies before joining SNGLT. Being based in the North-East, David is also well placed to contribute to the work on Bittern.

Nigel Wilson, Chairman of SNGLT, said:
"I am very pleased that David is joining the team; we had a number of very strong candidates for the role but when our engineers interviewed David the fit with our team was clear immediately. This appointment puts in place another element of our long-term plan for 60007 which is built around our relationship with Locomotive Services Ltd. The contract overhaul of Bittern will help us build funds for the next overhaul of our locomotive and will allow us to ensure we have a pool of skilled people available to undertake it. A key objective of the Bittern project is to ensure skills and experience are passed on within the organisation."

The overhaul of Bittern is expected to start shortly. Mr Wilson said "it may seem like not much has happened since we announced the plan to overhaul 19 however, having identified a suitable workshop location, we have been working with LSL to secure the lease and then establish suitable facilities. This is now well progressed, and we expect Bittern to arrive in the near future."

David Allinson

David Allinson, who joined SNGLT as assistant Locomotive Engineer on 30th September, at work in the cab of 60007 Sir Nigel Gresley. Photo © Darrin Crone / SNGLT.

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