GALLERY: All the best photos as Sir Nigel Gresley returns to the rails at the North Yorkshire Moors Railway Annual Steam Gala
There will be 13 locomotives in steam over the weekend, including three guest engines, the most famous of which is Sir Nigel Gresley.and the 100th designed by Great Northern Railway chief engineer Gresley. However, she will be in a semi-matt black livery rather than her traditional blue paintwork due to a delay to further work.
Also visiting is one of the last remaining British Railways Standard Class 5s, also built at Doncaster in the 1950s. No. 73156 has been loaned by the Great Central Railway in Loughborough, is only one of five surviving Standard Class 5 locomotives from the 172 originally built. She returned to the rails in 2017.
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