Nigel Gresley - Innovations

Innovations

• Derived valve motion for 3-cylinder steam locomotives; Gresley Conjugated Valve Gear.
• The largest passenger steam locomotive in the UK, the P2 2-8-2.
• The largest steam locomotive in the UK, the U1 2-8-0+0-8-2 Garratt.
• The 'locomotive that won the war', the V2 2-6-2.
• The A3 'Flying Scotsman' 4-6-2.
• The fastest steam locomotive in the world, the A4 'Mallard' 4-6-2 (126.3 mph).
• Another A4, 'Silver Link', previously holding the world speed record for steam locomotives (112 mph)
• The experimental high-pressure LNER Class W1 'hush-hush' 4-6-4 locomotive
• Silver Jubilee train
• The articulated railway carriage, first used with some conversions of East Coast Joint Stock (ECJS) carriages in 1907, soon followed by conversions of GNR carriages; new articulated carriages being built for the GNR from 1911.