Hephaestus Books represents a new publishing paradigm, allowing disparate content sources to be curated into cohesive, relevant, and informative books. To date, this content has been curated from Wikipedia articles and images under Creative Commons licensing, although as Hephaestus Books continues to increase in scope and dimension, more licensed and public domain content is being added. We believe books such as this represent a new and exciting lexicon in the sharing of human knowledge. This particular book contains chapters focused on London and North Eastern Railway locomotives, Great Central Railway locomotives, Lancashire, Derbyshire and East Coast Railway locomotives, North Eastern Railway locomotives, Hull and Barnsley Railway locomotives, North British Railway locomotives, Great Eastern Railway locomotives, LNER Class A4 locomotives, and Great Northern Railway (Great Britain) locomotives.