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4464 ''Bittern'' is a London & North Eastern Railway Class A4 steam locomotive. Built for the LNER in 1937 at Doncaster Works as works number 1866, it was originally numbered 4464. It was renumbered 19 on 16 August 1946 under the LNER 1946 renumbering scheme and after nationalisation in 1948, was renumbered 60019 by British Railways on 10 October 1948. It is a Pacific 4-6-2 locomotive to the same design by Nigel Gresley as the more famous A4 ''Mallard'' and one of the 35 strong class. It is one of six to survive into preservation and is one of three currently certified for mainline use. In preservation, the locomotive has also worn the identities of a number of its scrapped classmates, including the first of the A4 class 2509 ''Silver Link'' and most recently as 4492 ''Dominion of New Zealand''. ==Liveries== Like the other members of her class, ''Bittern'' has worn many liveries throughout her career. When released to traffic on 18 December 1937, ''Bittern'' was wearing the garter blue livery that was standard for LNER A4 Pacific locomotives at that time. On 14 November 1941 it was repainted into wartime black with LNER markings on the tender. On 22 May 1943 the tender was modified with just the markings NE. It has sometimes been said that this was to confuse wartime spies, but the generally accepted view is that it was to save scarce materials and labour by reducing the number of letters by half. It has also been said that the change was to satisfy the vanity of the new Chief Mechanical Engineer, Edward Thompson, who was a product of the former North Eastern Railway, but this claim is widely discounted. ''Bittern'' remained in black until 7 March 1947 when repainted in LNER post-war garter blue with extra red/white lining. ''Bittern'' was repainted next on 28 July 1950 into British Railways dark blue with black and white lining. The final repaint for ''Bittern'' was into British Railways brunswick green on 12 February 1952. ''Bittern'' had some livery variations applied to her; some of the A4s had red backgrounds applied to their nameplates, which were normally black. ''Bittern'' was seen with a red background circa 1966. The Brunswick green livery had variations. Normally the boiler bands were lined out except for the firebox boiler band, which was plain green. ''Bittern'', and other Darlington based A4s received lining on the firebox boiler band as well. Some A4s had their shed name marked on the right-hand (looking from the front) buffer. ''Bittern'' was marked with Gateshead circa 1949 and Ferryhill later in the 1960s. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「LNER Class A4 4464 Bittern」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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