RAILWAY RECORD.
NON-STOP RUN OF 392 MILES. tLONDON TO EDINBURGH. • \ (United Press Association—Copyright). (Received This Day, 1.30 p.m.) LONDON, April 11. The flying Scotsman/ the most fanions train in the world, will establish a world record non-stop' run, London to Edinburgh, 392 miles, on May Day. The present non-stop record is Dondon to Carlyle, 300 miles, which is regarded as the limit of a driver s endurance. .-,,', -> The new record is possible by the invention of a corridor tender communicating with the train, allowing of a ehange of drivers. The Flying Scotchman ' has leit King's Cross for Edinburgh every week day for the last 66 years.—Australian Press Association.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 48, Issue 155, 12 April 1928, Page 5
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