In recent years the importance of the personal element in
locomotive design and operation has increasingly come to the fore.
No longer do authors attempt to compile articles which state that
'Mr X built a class of 6' 4-4-0s...' because, as in the case of
someone like Wainwright, he had little part in their design. Even
the great Stanier relied on a team of engineers and draughtsmen who
transformed his outline ideas into detailed designs. This new
approach to engineering biography has evoked several book-length
profiles of loco engineers, as well as detailed studies of
engineers, including information about their design teams, making
new and sometimes controversial revisions of long accepted
reputations. Men of Steam offers brief but tight profiles of some
of Britain's loco engineers, some very well known, some not,
examining their work and personal impact, including some that will
prove to be controversial in the wider railway community.
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