The story of Gresley and his locomotives is a well-trodden path.
But our view of his achievements is a blinkered one because it
fails to recognise all the other people who played a part in his
work. As the leading American aviation engineer Paul S Baker wrote
in 1945 the day of one-man engineering is long gone. You might as
well print the organisation table of the engineering department
when trying to assign credit for a particular design'. To Gresley
must go great credit for many of the LNER's achievements, but those
around him have faded into obscurity and are now largely forgotten
even though their contributions were immense. To redress this
balance, the author has explored the lives of Gresley and his team
and sought to uncover a more expansive picture of these events.
This in no way diminishes Gresley's accomplishments, which are
immense by any standards, but builds a more authentic view of a
dynamic period in railway history. The book draws upon many sources
of information, some of it previously unpublished. This has helped
present a fascinating picture of all that happened and all that was
achieved, often in the most difficult of circumstances, by a very
gifted team of engineers and their exceptional leader.
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