Malcolm Root FGRA Railway Art Print featuring a Thompson B1 4-6-0 Class locomotive.
Mixed Traffic Marvels - The Thompson B1
With the death of Sir Nigel Gresley in 1941, the position of Chief Mechanical Engineer of the London and North Eastern Railway was filled by Edward Thompson. Thompson was to immediately make his influence felt by cancelling plans for further locomotives of his predecessor's V4 class and undertaking his own design of a mixed traffic locomotive, the B1 being the result. Fifty-nine of the class would receive names and they were known as 'Bongos' due to the forty-one locomotives of the class named after breeds of antelope, including 8306 (later 1005, then 61005) 'Bongo'.
Though Thompson would design a number of other locomotives, the B1 is widely regarded as his most successful and 410 were built over a ten year period. Used throughout the LNER, they would be a common sight on the former Great Eastern lines out of Liverpool Street. Malcolm Root's art print shows 1059, in immaculate condition, waiting for the off
Key Features
- Image size of
- 20" x 17.75" (23.25" x 21.25" including borders)
- 508mm x 453mm (590mm x 540mm including borders)
- Printed on 300gsm Matt Fine Art Paper with lightfast inks.
- Limited Edition Print of only 50 copies.
- Each print is inspected and signed by the artist before dispatch.
