Britain's railways emerged from wartime years battered and bruised. On the LNER one of the first signs of post-war recovery was the repainting of the A4 Pacifics in the pre-war garter blue with indian red wheels, albeit without the side skirts that had been removed to ease wartime maintenance. This livery lasted well into British Railway days, initially with LNER numbers and British Railways lettering and finally, as depicted here, renumbered in the BR series.
60033 Sea Eagle began life as 4902 and was later renumbered 33 by the LNER; BR simply added 60000 to the final LNER number. I can't claim absolute accuracy for this image but do know that Sea Eagle was one of the first A4s to be fitted with double chimneys from new, so that aspect at least should be correct. The source image is 60007 Sir Nigel Gresley photographed at Goathland on the North Yorkshire Moors Railway in 2009 (25-Feb-11).
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