- “I remember the days on my old line, when some of the big engines like Gordon were named after horses, which had won a race called the Derby. Lemberg was one, and Pretty Polly was another. What a silly name for an engine!”
- ― The Elderly Brake Van, Galloping Sausage
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Pretty Polly was an LNER A3 Pacific mentioned by the Elderly Brake Van in the annual story, Galloping Sausage. She was named after a female racehorse; the brake van commenting that it was a silly name for an engine.
Bio
Built in April 1925, after entering service in April as an LNER A1 Pacific, she was converted to an A3 in May 1944. Originally numbered 2560, she was later renumbered 61, becoming 60061 under British Railways. She was withdrawn in September 1963 and scrapped soon afterward. She was Gordon, Lemberg, and Flying Scotsman's sister and Green Arrow, Mallard, Spencer, Ryan and the Flying Thistle's cousin.
Livery
Pretty Polly first wore the LNER "Apple Green" livery with black and white linings before WWII when she applied the plain LNER "Wartime Black" livery. After the war was over, Pretty Pretty retrieved her original "Apple Green" livery. When British Railways was formed in 1945, the engine received an experimental BR "Express Passenger Lined Blue" with black and white linings livery until she finally applied BR "Brunswick Green" with black and orange linings livery in 1952.
Appearances
Annual Stories
- 1992 - Galloping Sausage (mentioned)
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