LNER Class A4 4496 Dwight D Eisenhower

LNER Class A4 No. 60008 Dwight D. Eisenhower was built for the London and North Eastern Railway in 1937 as No. 4496 Golden Shuttle. It entered traffic on 4 September 1937 in garter blue with stainless steel trim, was renamed after the American general in 1945, renumbered 8 in 1946 and became 60008 under British Railways in 1948. Allocated to Doncaster for only nine days when new, it then worked from King's Cross and Grantham and was fitted with a double chimney and Kylchap blastpipe in 1958. It hauled a special from Stratford to York in October 1962 and was withdrawn on 20 July 1963. Donated to the United States, it was restored at Doncaster Works, shipped in 1964 and put on static display at the National Railroad Museum at Green Bay, Wisconsin, returning briefly to England in 2012 for the reunion of the surviving A4s.