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Now, if they could just give it a repaint into LNER Silver and put a proper A4 corridor tender behind it – we can all dream!

as opposed to the non corridor tender it has, which has been converted to corridor status you mean?

A proper streamlined corridor tender as opposed to the 1928 pattern corridor tender that were transferred to some of the A4s and is the style Bittern has, although brand new. Bittern never had a corridor tender in BR times of course.

It is a great shame that none of the streamlined corridor tenders, built specially for the A4s, were preserved. They matched the locomotives a lot better, being specially built for the purpose, and didn't have to have bits welded on the top to make them look streamlined. The lack of beading especially makes them look much neater and the curved backs matched the passenger stock. They were built in two batches and were initially attached to 2509-2512 and 4491-4497 – with differences between the two batches.

Hi folks,

You're right with your research, in fact you appear to know more than us- Jack Luty was indeed christened John and is the person from Grimsby you've identified. Jack was my great uncle, I am Jonathan Foyle's sister and daughter of Norma.
Norma says that Jack retired as Running Foreman at King's Cross. FYI Jack's brother, Tom, was District Signals Inspector at Doncaster before his death in 1968. Jack and Tom's father was not called John, he was James, Tom's middle name was James. She also thinks that their mother's maiden name was spelt Hewlett. Norma was aware of the Silver Link connection and has a poster of it in her home. Thanks for the interest and I hope this info helps.

Karen

Hello Karen - thank you for coming onto the forum and sharing the information about your family. It's good to hear from you, and if you should want to know anything about railway life, people and times on the LNER/BR this is the place to ask. I know from personal experience that the folk here are most generous with their knowledge and expertise.

In one of the posts Spamcan81 says: As you probably know, 60019 Bittern is a sister locomotive of Silver Link so in case you are interested there is more about this anniversary special on its operator's (Steam Dreams) website (including provisional timings): http://www.steamdreams.com/content/view/272/52/

Best wishes

Thank you for the information 61070, I wasn't aware of that.

Karen, thank you for confirming that it was 'Jack' Luty. It's good to know that the name that will appear on my print of Silver Link will be correct.

As I said at the beginning of this thread, it is nice to honour the people who did the work on record runs – especially the fireman!