21st Century Steam

[Dave Brand]

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!

[robmcg]

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,

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