Faced with the lack of a preserved example of the LNER's last, & probably the UK's best, express steam loco, Peppercorn's A1, what ya gonna do...
...build a new one, that's what!
http://www.a1steam.com/
A bold project by any standards!
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Faced with the lack of a preserved example of the LNER's last, & probably the UK's best, express steam loco, Peppercorn's A1, what ya gonna do...
...build a new one, that's what!
http://www.a1steam.com/
A bold project by any standards!
I dunno,Quote:
Originally Posted by Dave Brand
an apple-green LNER A1 runs through my house regularly...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mczig...eature=channel
I know, I know, they were rarely that clean, but after WW2.... people needed cheering-up...
and by 1959... some upstarts had bought damn cars. Bloody unions. Here is a late 50s A1 express a few years before the locos were scrapped
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6epn...eature=channel
Rob