Two new lenses

Well, I'm not quite happy with either of them, but since its been tipping it all morning, I thought I might as well put them live.

#127 GWR Star class Steam Engines
http://www.squidoo.com/star-class-steam-engines
About the Star Class, the first steam engines created for the Great Western Railway after their initial issues with the engines built to Brunel's specifications. These engines gave rise to the successful Firefly class.

The BAC prototype

#128 English Electric Canberra (the B57)
http://www.squidoo.com/english-electric-canberra
Done at the suggestion of Spook, another lensmaster, this one was tricky. The Canberra is still in service with airforces around the world, while most of the aircraft I write about have been long retired. Also, it has a very long service history, 57 years. Rather than try to cover this in detail - it's been done better elsewhere by people more familiar with the plane - I've tried to create the lens as an intro with links to the relevant sites and resources.

#120 The Iron Duke GWR steam engines

New lens: #120 The Iron Duke
http://www.squidoo.com/iron-duke-steam-engine

About the Iron Duke class of GWR Broad gauge steam engines, which pulled the Flying Dutchman fast express. This was a spin off from my GWR lens, but I had enough material (just) to make doing this one worthwhile.

The other lens that got a tweak was the one that is now http://www.willardprice.co.uk. A surprising number of visitors aren't familiar with lenses, and didn't realise each book as its own page. A new link by each description should make this more obvious.

#116 Great Western Railway

Lens #116 The Great Western Railway
http://www.squidoo.com/lensmaster/new_workshop/Great-Western-Railway

This is the one that I was stuck on. Too much information - and I mean that literally. Even pared down to the basic points its one of my longer lenses. The story of the GWR is one of business expediency or technological advice, massive engineering achievements, and one of the most famous Railways the world ever new, built by its greatest engineer.

Still it's up, I think I got everything vital in, and frankly I rather like the look of it.

It also comes with a rather shorter spin-off:

New Lens: #117 http://www.squidoo.com/firefly-steam-engine

Since I'd got so much material about the engines, I thought I'd use it rather than let it go to waste.