The Princess Royal Pacifics
$81.01
- Hardcover
224 pages
- Release Date
8 January 2018
Summary
When Stanier joined the LMS in 1932, as their CME, he was expected to breathe new life into this ailing giant. Since its formation, it had steadily lost ground to its main rival, the LNER. In Doncaster, Nigel Gresley and his team, with an eye to advancing locomotive design at the same time as making the company commercially successful, had quickly begun producing a series of high-performance and iconic Pacific engines to pull their high-profile express trains. Their impact left the LMS traili…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781473885783 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1473885787 |
| Author: | Tim Hillier-Graves |
| Publisher: | Pen & Sword Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Pen & Sword Transport |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 224 |
| Release Date: | 8 January 2018 |
| Weight: | 1.16kg |
| Dimensions: | 240mm x 250mm |
| Series: | Locomotive Portfolios |
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About The Author
Tim Hillier-Graves
Tim Hillier-Graves was born in North London in 1951. From an early age he was fascinated by steam locomotives. In 1972, Tim joined the Navy Department of the MOD and saw wide service in many locations. He retired in 2011, having specialised in Human Resource Management, then the management of the MOD’s huge housing stock as one of the department’s Assistant Directors for Housing. On the death of his uncle in 1984, he became the custodian of a substantial railway collection and in retirement has spent considerable time reviewing and cataloguing this material. ‘The Turbomotive, Staniers Advanced Pacific’ is the first result of this work.
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