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    Nov 19, 2021 6 minutes

    REVIEW OF THE MONTH

    Lion – The Story of the Real Titfield Thunderbolt

    Anthony Dawson

    Amberley Publishing, The Hill, Stroud GL5 4EP. Tel: 01453 847800. Web: www.amberley-books.com

    Email: sales@amberley-books.com

    Description: Softback, 246mm x 165mm, 96pp

    ISBN: 978 1 445 685052

    Price: £14.99

    There are a good many working early 19th century replicas locomotives around, and it is generally thought that Lion is an original Liverpool & Manchester Railway engine dating back to 1838. But is that true? The answer is most probably, and sadly, No.

    Extensive research for this book reveals as much as will probably ever be known about the pedigree of this famous 0-4-2 that is familiar to us all as the star of the 1953 Ealing comedy film The Titfield Thunderbolt.

    Lion, built in Leeds by Tidd, Kitson and Laird, represents the transition from the experimental 1820s Rainhill Trials engines to a design that was largely unchanged right up to BR’s No. 92220 Evening Star in 1960.

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