A historic locomotive will be visiting a station near you this week and Easter weekend.

Sir Nigel Gresley, The East Coast Pacific saved from the scrap man by volunteers in 1965, will be visiting the Nene Valley Railway for two weeks from today, Wednesday 5 April, after a £1,000,000 overhaul by volunteers!

N°4498 Sir Nigel Gresley was the 100th Gresley Pacific built by the Great Northern Railway / London and North Eastern Railway.

Built at Doncaster as works N°1863, the locomotive entered service in 1937 following a naming ceremony at Marylebone station on 26th November.

The locomotive was mainly based at London King's Cross, with a spell at Grantham during World War II, and was briefly re-numbered as N°7 before becoming N°60007 when the LNER was merged into British Railways.

On 3rd June 1956, Sir Nigel Gresley had the honour of hauling the Royal Train from King's Cross to York with H.M. the Queen on board. The "Stephenson Locomotive Society Special" of the 23rd May 1959 was the first train in the UK with a booked or advertised schedule of over 100 m.p.h. and during that trip, N°60007 set the official post-war speed record for steam traction of 112 mph.

Sir Nigel will be arriving in Peterborough in steam from Crewe around 13:25 today, passing through Stamford as it goes.

The train will be passing through Stamford today. Image credit: Railworld Wildlife Haven.

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Join the Nene Valley Railway as the team celebrate steam-hauled services with 60007 back in Blue for the first time since overhaul.

For more information about the journey taken by this historic locomotive on the Nene Valley Railway, click here.

See the timetable and book you passage online. Image credit: NVR Ltd.

Book tickets online.