Locomotives & Recollections: No. 6233 Duchess of Sutherland

By John Whitehouse (softback, The Nostalgia Collection/Mortons Books, www.mortonsbooks.co.uk, 80pp, £10, ISBN 978 1 85794 589 8).

THIS new album of more than 160 photographs in the Locomotives and Recollections series chronicles the career of Duchess of Sutherland. Early photographs reflect the locomotive's 27-year LMS and BR days, followed by its heritage era moves to the Butlin's Heads of Ayr holiday camp, Bressingham Steam Museum and finally to the West Shed at Swanwick Junction on the Midland Railway – Butterley, home of the Princess Royal Class Locomotive Trust. From the scrap line in 1964, in preservation the Duchess rose in stature to the point where it headed the Royal Train in July 2002, and today it remains a main line crowd-puller. The book draws extensively from the author's own archive.

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