Image of A view of the high speed express steam train 'The by Hardman, Joseph (1893-1972)

A view of the high speed express steam train 'The Coronation Scot', passing through the...

IMAGE number: ABT1206725
Image title: A view of the high speed express steam train 'The Coronation Scot', passing through the Lune valley near Tebay on its six and a half hour run between London and Glasgow on which it only stopped at Carlisle, 1930s-60s (b/w photo)
Artist: Hardman, Joseph (1893-1972) / British
Location: Museum of Lakeland Life and Industry, Kendal, Cumbria, UK
Medium: black and white photograph
Date: c. 1930 AD - c. 1969 AD (C20th AD)

Image description: Steam Train in the Lune Valley. It was inaugurated in the summer of 1937 and ran only until the commencement of the second Wolrd War on 3 September 1939, so this photo dates from that short period The locomotive is a streamlined 'Princess Coronation' class PAcofoc (4-2-6 Wheel alignment) designed by Sir William Stanier, Chief Locomotive Engineer of the London Midland & Scottish Railways (LMS) in 1937 One surviving example has recently been restored bu the National Rialway Museum into it original crimson lake livery with gold stripes - although some where blue and silver with pipes which extened the full length of the train
Photo credit: © Abbot Hall Art Gallery / Bridgeman Images
Image keywords: United Kingdom / Europe / photo / Hardman Joseph (1893-1972) / 20th century / England / photographer / train / rural / steam / farmland / lune valley / social history / britain / countryside / british / photography / vintage / tebay / Photograph / Photography / Mzphoto

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