This excellent book gives this talented designer the attention he deserves and gives some account of the family life that is all too often overlooked in railway biographies. It is supplemented by biographies of other locomotive draughtsmen and engineers plus a useful appendix of locomotive drawings showing how Tom's designs evolved. Definitely a book to be recommended.

Model Engineer, 31st January - 13th February 2020 – reviewed by Roger Backhouse

The book includes some interesting line drawings and many images both monochrome and colour. There is a comprehensive index and, especially valuable, a number of pages providing brief biographies of key LMS senior personnel.

Friends of the National Railway Museum

This high quality publication has a huge collection of photographs of the various LMS classes - being constructed, on shed and at various locations, plus build diagrams and statistics. It's a veritable 'everything you ever wanted to know' about the locomotives of the LMS, combined with a biography of a modest man who rose through the ranks of loco design to become Stanier's most senior draughtsman, close associate and respected friend. Superb production and layout.

Friends of the West Highland Lines

An interesting story about the work of a genius who should not be forgotten

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Miniaturas JM

REVIEW OF THE MONTH

Page after page of riveting facts - many of them previously unknown to the reviewer - are rolled out in easy read style that makes the book hard to put down.

Steam World, November 2018