The Story of Black Prince: How Art Saved A Spaceship

Text by Simon Holyfield (softback, Friends of Black Prince, www.ebay. co.uk/usr/friendsofbp, 42pp, £3.99 plus £1.53 p&p).

THIS highly readable and wellillustrated history of BR Standard 9F 2-10-0 No. 92003 Black Prince has been published to raise money towards its next overhaul when it comes out of North Norfolk Railway service in three years' time. It tells the story of how it was saved by the late international wildlife artists who founded the East Somerset Railway on which to run it, and its many adventures afterwards.

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