Stirling Single at the National Railway Museum, York 1986
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The famous Stirling Single at the National Railway Museum in 1986, shown in a striking close-up that emphasises its enormous driving wheel, elegant splashers and beautifully lined apple-green livery. Built for the Great Northern Railway in the age of high-speed Victorian express travel, the locomotive remains one of the most graceful steam engines ever produced, and this photograph captures that refinement perfectly in the curve of the black framing, the polished brass and copper fittings, and the sheer scale of the single driving wheel. By focusing tightly on the wheel and motion rather than the whole engine, the image highlights the design features that made the Stirling Single so distinctive. It is a superb museum detail shot of one of Britain’s most celebrated preserved locomotives.
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