Publisher’s Synopsis
 
The latest in Ian Allan’s highly successful ‘at Work’ series covers a wide-ranging subject area: the East Coast Pacifics from Gresley’s ‘A1’ class of 1922 through to Peppercorn’s postwar designs. The story starts on the Great Northern Railway when No. 1470 Great Northern , the first of Gresley’s Pacifics, was designed and put into traffic. When the GNR amalgamated with other companies to form the LNER, Gresley became chief mechanical engineer and proceeded to continue the development of a range of Pacific locomotives that had a major impact on the British railway scene; in early 1923 Flying Scotsman’ appeared- to gain fame in 1928 as the engine that headed the first Kings Cross to Edinburgh non stop service, the ‘Flying Scotsman’; in 1935 the first streamlined ‘A4’ was unveiled and in 1938 one of the ‘A4’s’, Mallard became the world speed record holder for steam haulage with a record that exists to this day- 126 miles an hour…….
 
Ian Allan Publishing Ltd; 1985. Reprint. Hardcover with unclipped dust cover. 192 pp. Black and white photographs. Near fine condition. Pre-owned. ISBN: 0711011702