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PROTOTYPE
In 1941, Sir Nigel Gresley died in office. He was one of the most celebrated of locomotive engineers, and, as the LNER's CME for 18 years, loco designs for which he was responsible were at the forefront of BR locomotive practice through the ‘20s and ‘30s; in fact, almost up to the end of BR steam in the late-‘60s. It could be said