Sir Nigel Gresley Operational Schedule for 2025:

News item 31 August 2025

8-9th October Sir Nigel Gresley Experience at the Watercress Line (booking: Sir Nigel Gresley Static Footplate Tour - Watercress Line))
9th October Evening Photo shoot (booking: Sir Nigel Gresley Photography Experience Hosted By Nikon - Watercress Line)
10th October: Dining Service (booking: booking: Sir Nigel Gresley Exclusive Dining Experience - Watercress Line or afternoon tea
11-12th October Timetable services booking: booking: Travel Behind Sir Nigel Gresley - Watercress Line) or afternoon tea (booking: Afternoon Tea Behind Sir Nigel Gresley - Watercress Line)

News item 30 July 2025

Join us to celebrate 150 years of Heaton TrainCare Centre
Heaton Depot Open Day: Step Inside 150 Years of Railway History
Heaton TrainCare Centre, Newcastle 20 and 21 September.
Details here:

News item 24 February 2025

Recruitment

A new page has been added to advertise job opportunities with SNGLT.

Statement 13 April 2025:

The Trust has become aware of some press coverage showing 60007 disguised as another member of the A4 class. The Trust would like to make clear that, contrary to the report in the press, it did not have any knowledge of this activity, did not instigate it and certainly would not use it as a promotional activity. The press coverage in this respect is incorrect. The activity appears to have been organised by a few well-meaning individuals

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

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."