LNER Class V2 4771 Green Arrow

The LNER Class V2 2-6-2 steam locomotive, number 4771 "Green Arrow" was built in June 1936 for the London and North Eastern Railway at Doncaster Works to a design of Nigel Gresley. The first-built and only surviving member of its class, it was designed for hauling express freight and passenger trains and named after an LNER express freight service. Numbered 4771 by the LNER, the locomotive was later renumbered 60800 by British Railways.

Withdrawn in August 1962 and subsequently preserved as part of the National Railway Museum collection, "Green Arrow" ran in preservation until being withdrawn from service on 21 April 2008, shortly before its boiler certificate expired. After a series of commemorative runs on preserved railways, the locomotive moved to the North Yorkshire Moors Railway for their LNER gala. Following the first gala weekend the boiler was found to have two cracked superheater tubes; temporary repairs allowed the loco to make a final run on the second weekend before being finally withdrawn. The loco will return to the National Collection and be on static display at the National Railway Museum's Locomotion site at Shildon.

Green Arrow appears in The Railway Series book "Thomas and the Great Railway Show", double-heading a steam special to Scarborough with Thomas.

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External links

* [http://nymr.co.uk/news/last-chance-for-green-arrow-trip North Yorkshire Moors Railway - Notification of Green Arrow's final outing]