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During the 1920s the Southern Railway identified a requirement for a powerful yet fast locomotive for use on its continental boat train services, and this was to lead to the development of the ‘Lord Nelson’ class, a design that perhaps never really lived up to its full potential. EVAN GREEN-HUGHES takes up the story.
IN THE THIRD decade of the 20th century Britain was a country undergoing a vast amount of change. The horrors of the First World War were beginning to recede into the past, the years of austerity were over and there was a new optimism amongst the young. The country’s rigid class society was beginning to break down and the middle if not the working classes had more wealth than ever before.
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