The new Belfast mail train which covers the 230 miles to Fleetwood at something over 54 miles an hour is one of the fastest long-distance trains in •England. It still fails, however, to equal the speed of the PaddingtonPenzance express, which makes the journey of 226 i miles in four hours seven "minutes, or rather better than 55 miles an hour. The fastest trip of over a hus.dred miles is still made by the Paddii gton-Bristol express, which covers the listahee in a fraction under 60 miles an honr. Perhaps the new monster locomotives th3t the Great Southern Eailway are building, and which are said to be able to pull a 4")0-ton train at 75 miles an hour, are quietly preparing- to beat this record.
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Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18367, 28 April 1925, Page 13
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