RECORD SMASHED.
STREAMLINED TRAIN.
British Engine's Speedy Run
From London
MANY AIDS TO COMFORT. British Official Wireless. (Received 1.30 p.m.) RUGBY, September 27. The London and, North-Eastern Railway's new streamlined train Silver Jubilee, on a portion of its trial from King's Cross to Barkston, Lincolnshire, to-day reached a speed of 112 miles an hour, thus breaking all railway speed records. The Silver Jubilee engine 'resembles a gigantic war-time tank. Its funnels and boiler arc invisible, and its streamline effect throws up air which carries the smoke clear of the driver's cabin.
It weighs 105 tons and draws seven silvered coaches panelled with steel.
The noise at high speeds is deadened by asbestos insulation in the walls, floor and roof.
The train travels almost without vibration.
The previous highest authentic speed ever recorded on a run was on a journey from Plymouth to Paddington on May 0, 1904. The figure was 102.3 m.p.h. A streamlined train in Germany a year or two ago travelled at over 100 m.p.h. between Hamburg and Berlin, while the American Silver Streak, formerly known as tho Burlington Zephyr, travelled in May of last year from Denver to Chicago, a distance of 1015 miles, in 13 hours —an average speed of 77 m.p.h.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 230, 28 September 1935, Page 9
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