Tornado (3 reviews)
by Robin Jones
Imprint: Remember When
Found in: British History Books
Wharncliffe Transport
Hardback
208 pages
ISBN: 9781844681204
Published: 15 June 2011
by Robin Jones
Imprint: Remember When
Found in: British History Books
Wharncliffe Transport
Hardback
208 pages
ISBN: 9781844681204
Published: 15 June 2011
£19.99
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Officially endorsed by the A1 Steam locomotive trust, Tornado is the official account of the building of Britain's first main line steam locomotive for 50 years, how it took a team of volunteers 18 years to raise more than £2-million to build it and its international headline-grabbing debut on the main line, with a royal visit thrown in for good measure.
The book looks at the history of the A1 class and the East Coast Main Line which they were built to run on, the man who designed them, Arthur H Peppercorn, the preservation movement which evolved from a handful of volunteers saving a cash-strapped steam railway in central Wales in 1949 to the point where it could build a main line express passenger locomotive, and how the dream of building Tornado came to fruition stage by stage at Darlington.
Tornado is lavishly illustrated with both archive and contemporary photographs bringing the story up to date.
Robin Jones is a widely published and highly respected journalist who specialises in heritage transportation and industrial archaeology subjects. Robin contributes news and feature material on a regular basis across a wide range of railway titles and has written many books on Britain's railway history.
The book looks at the history of the A1 class and the East Coast Main Line which they were built to run on, the man who designed them, Arthur H Peppercorn, the preservation movement which evolved from a handful of volunteers saving a cash-strapped steam railway in central Wales in 1949 to the point where it could build a main line express passenger locomotive, and how the dream of building Tornado came to fruition stage by stage at Darlington.
Tornado is lavishly illustrated with both archive and contemporary photographs bringing the story up to date.
Robin Jones is a widely published and highly respected journalist who specialises in heritage transportation and industrial archaeology subjects. Robin contributes news and feature material on a regular basis across a wide range of railway titles and has written many books on Britain's railway history.
There is a wealth of photographs previously unpublished unpublished archive shots plus many modern colour views which have been specially commissioned for the book. This style of book permits an eclectic mix of interesting... [read full review]
Wessex Transport Society Magazine
The compelling story of the new build A1 is also told in equal depth but with slightly different emphasis in Tornado by well known railway author Robin Jones.British Railway Modeling
Tornado is both the journey of how a small group of people, completed an engineering feat of Herculean magnitude, and the history of the other great trains of the 1940's that inspired the Tornado to... [read full review]Jack Ridgill
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Robin Jones is a widely published and highly respected journalist who specialises in heritage transportation and industrial archaeology subjects. Robin contributes news and feature material on a regular basis across a wide range of railway titles and has written many books on Britain's railway history.
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