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    Jan 21, 2022 5 minutes

    REVIEW OF THE MONTH

    Edwardian Stream - A Locomotive Kaleidoscope

    Philip Atkins

    Crecy Publishing Company, 1A Ringway Trading Estate, Shadowmoss Road, Manchester M22 5LH. Tel: 0161 499 0024.

    Website: www.crecy.co.uk Email: enquiries@crecy.co.uk

    Description: Hardback, 280mm x 215mm, 256pp

    ISBN: 9781910809655

    Price £25.00

    How many of the six skilled draughtsmen listed by authoritative author Phil Atkins for crucially shaping Britain’s locomotive design at the turn of the last century can you name? James Clayton? Basil Field? George Heppell? Frederick Hawksworth? William Holley? Carl Schoblet?

    The chances are that you’ll only recognise just Hawksworth, who became the future CME of the Great Western Railway. So, it’s time to learn about the others who won little credit for the ‘Golden Age’ of steam (officially recognised as the years 1901-14).

    This was a period when a new locomotive design or a technological weakling.

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