List of Coronation Scot magazine articles

Magazine references to the Coronation Scot. This is necessarily an incomplete listing, but may have some useful references for the enthusiast. There were a lot of contemporary Meccano Magazine articles, which are still to be added to the list. Due to time constraints, the Museum hasn't been able to research coverage of the train in "general" magazines.

Railway Gazette 1937, Coronation Scot supplement

Source for many of the publicity photographs and diagrams used in later publications

Popular Mechanics, June 1939

British Streamliner 'Chums' with Americans

Photograph of the "US Tour" Coronation Scot lined up alongside three (noticeably larger) US streamliner locomotives

Railway World, April 1986

D Jenkinson, The Coronation Pacifics, Part One pp.146-51

Streamlined and non-streamlined p149 shows a stack of seven profile images, “Coronation Pacifics in detail”

Railway World, May 1986

D Jenkinson, The Coronation Pacifics, Part Two pp.188-192

includes four tables of liveries and livery changes

Railway World, June 1987

Don Rowland, Dragonfly days: The 50th anniversary of ‘Coronation Scot’ pp.326-329

Back Track: Recording Britain’s Railway History March-April 1992

A. J. Mullay, Coronation v Coronation Scot pp.76-81

Comparison of the two competing streamlined 1930s trains, with small reproductions of some contemporary posterwork

The World of Trains, part 127 (Eagle Moss Publications, 1994)

pp.2537-2541 Loco Library: Streamlined Coronation

A very good description of the development of the locomotive’s design, including a centrespread colour profile rendering of profile of 6223 Princess Alice, on pp2538-2539