4771 Green Arrow, the Final Curtain

Footage of 4771 (60800) Green Arrow running on the East Lancashire Railway in January 2008 (with one additional shot taken in October 2007). I'd already put up a farewell vid in October last year, but it's an infectious loco, and with the news that it was to reappear on the line in January, I had to go back for another look.

With the loco failing and subsequently being withdrawn on 31.03.08 on the North Yorkshire Moors Railway, these may be the last shots I get of the engine in operation due to the current stance of the National Railway Museum. I hope that doesn't prove to be the case!

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• 60800
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• Arrow
• LNER
• East
• Lancashire
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• NYMR
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[593OLYMPUS]

Green Arrow is an excellent locomotive. If a bunch of people can spend 18 years getting £4million together to make a replica A1 pacific from scratch, I am sure the cost of a new cylinder casting could easily be met by a Steam Railway magazine fund. She is unique and deserves the kind of money spent on her that other locos have REPEATEDLY had spent on them - Flying Scotsman for instance. I hope to see her running again asap. Great video - keep up the good work.

[Linesider1]

Thanks mate; I agree entirely with your sentiments.

[nsmerryweather]

i e-mailed the NRM and they have said that 4468 mallard & 4771 Green Arrow will never steam again under their ownership as intrest soon depreciates and the everlasting lack of funds.

[Linesider1]

That's bad news, but thanks for sharing the info.

[hmplantman]

I went to the NYMR a few days after she was brought in. It was such a sad sight seeing her tucked away in a siding.

Great video. 5 stars from me.

[Linesider1]

Cheers. I do hope she returns!

[RailwaySeriesKB]

@593OLYMPUS in my own opinion, i think money should be forcably taken from fred goodwin and given to heritage railways

[rail1435]

Excellente séquence filmée, très bien montée.

La chute du timbre est souvent fatale pour l'exploitation d'une vapeur.

[trainmanjg611]

I hear that the NRM is going 2 purchase the engine and restore it 2 operating condition

[60103Henry]

Great Video, 5 Stars! It would be nice to get her steaming again and back on the main line!

[falcons1988]

@Linesider1

Don't we all.

btw who is that guy who won £113m on the Euromillions?

[mattdandex]

what is going to happen to green arrow

[Marillionmad]

Fab ending

[AndreiTupolev]

yes, but that would hardly be an obstacle for the private sector. it's only because it's in the public sector that it's "too difficult" or "too expensive". Look at any number of locos running today that were in many, many times worse state when they came out of Barry.

[5thegranary]

A lovely montage of films that make a wonderrful tribute tio this outstanding locomotive. If you are starved of V2 entertainment, don't forget Peter Handford's superb sound recordings of these engine battling away on the Waverley line.