| Statue of Sir Nigel Gresley | |
|---|---|
 The statue and plaque | |
| Subject | Nigel Gresley |
| Location | London, United Kingdom |
| 51°31′54″N 0°07′25″W / 51.5317°N 0.1236°W | |
A statue of Sir Nigel Gresley made of bronze stands near the booking office of London King's Cross railway station. It was commissioned by the Gresley Society in memory of Sir Nigel Gresley, a locomotive designer who worked in offices at the station and whose designs included Mallard, which set the unbroken steam locomotive speed record in 1938. The statue was designed by Hazel Reeves and cast in bronze at the Whitechapel Bell Foundry. A decision taken by the Society to omit from the final sculpture a mallard duck that had been shown in the initial design led to what was described as "possibly the most acrimonious argument in the long, pedantic history of the railway hobbyist".[1]