PublishedAtlantic Books, October 2012 |
ISBN9781843547693 |
FormatHardcover, 336 pages |
Jonathan Glancey turns his attention to the thrilling story of the last generation of steam railway locomotives in regular main line service. Designed and built chiefly by the railways and workshops of Britain, France, Germany and the United States, these powerful and beautifully designed machines would take steam locomotive technology to new heights set against a backdrop of the political upheavals and military conflicts of the mid twentieth century.
Glancey also commemorates the dedicated and often charismatic engineers who designed and built these effective and emotive machines, among them Nigel Gresley and William Stanier in Great Britain, Andre Chapelon and Marc de Caso in France, William Woodard and Paul Kiefer in the United States and Richard Wagner and Otto Wolff in Germany.
