A NAMEPLATE from what was arguably the most controversial express locomotive in the 25-year history of the LNER will go under the hammer on July 15 – coincidentally, a year after one of the Pacific’s worksplates was sold by the same auction house.
The plate, is from No. 60113, whose history illustrates what many railway historians claim was deep animosity between its designer, Nigel Gresley, and his successor, Edward Thompson. The claim has polarised opinion within the steam railway movement for decades and