Railway Steam Locomotive Christmas Xmas Card featuring LMS Duchess 6232 Duchess of Montrose
Winter presented all manner of problems to Steam locomotives and here one of Sir William Stanier's superb Coronation Pacifics, more commonly known as 'Duchess' shows that it is equal to the task and gives a fine performance over the metals. Here we see one of in the early days of the class without streamlined cladding but also without the distinctive smoke deflectors.