Название: The Princess Royal Pacifics (Locomotive Portfolios)
Автор: Tim Hillier-Graves
Издательство: Pen and Sword
ISBN: 1473885787
Год: 2018
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 224
Размер: 196,7 МБ
Язык: Английский

When Stanier joined the LMS in 1932, as their CME, he was expected to breathe new life into this ailing giant. Since its formation it had steadily lost ground to its main rival, the LNER. In Doncaster, Nigel Gresley and his team, with an eye to advancing locomotive design at the same time as making the company commercially successful, had quickly begun producing a series of high performance and iconic Pacific engines to pull their high profile express trains.