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THE GWR STREAMLINING EXPERIENCE

In 1935 the Great Western Railway was due to celebrate its centenary and the directors were casting around for ways in which some sort of a publicity ‘splash’ could be made. Streamlining was in vogue on the Continent and had already been used to a limited degree by the London & North Eastern Railway on Gresley’s ‘Hush Hush’ and the Mikado . Thus it was in late 1934 that C.

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