© Don Marshall 2008
ELEGANT STEAM
London & North Eastern Railway
Class A1 - No 2555 Centenary .
NB - This is one of my earliest efforts and consequently not very satisfactory. However, the image will suffice until I get around to doing another.
Designed by Sir Nigel Gresley and introduced in 1922, the Class A1 locomotives were designed to produce a high speed machine capable of hauling heavy loads and this proved to be the case, however subsequent trials with GWR Castle Class locomotives revealed room for improvement and the A1's were modified from 1927 to become the highly efficient A3 Class of express locomotives.