THOMPSON REVISITED
May 03, 2021
2 minutes
I ENJOYED the recent article by Nicola Fox on Edward Thompson (April 2021), but it left me wondering why, at a time of wartime crisis and postwar austerity, Thompson and the LNER were allowed to design and build the B1 4-6-0 and the L1 2-6-4T locomotives when equivalent proven LMS designs were available?
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