This book covers the design, construction, operation and
performance of Sir William Stanier's masterpiece, the Princess
Coronation pacific locomotives, better known as the Duchesses'.
Included are pen portraits of the LMS engineers, a chapter on the
express locomotives of the early LMS period that preceded their
introduction and the internal rivalries and politics that Stanier
was brought in to resolve. Chapters and photographs cover the
streamline era, the war years and aftermath, the early years of
nationalisation including the 1948 locomotive exchanges and the
recovery of performance in the mid-1950s. The author includes some
of his own experiences and photographs. The book includes 200
photographs including a few in colour from the LMS era, and an
appendix with weight diagrams, and statistics of the locomotive
construction and withdrawal, names, liveries, allocations and
mileages.
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