RECORD TRAIN SPEED

Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21908, 8 October 1936, Page 14

RECORD TRAIN SPEED

BRITISH EXPRESS REAC] 113 MILES AN HOUR

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LONDON. September On its 268 miles* journey from ] castle-on-Tyne to London this ' the London North-Eastern Bub

train. Silver Jubilee, travelled for 1 a mile at a speed of 113 miles an hi The engine was the Silver Pox;-! it pulled eight coaches, equal W tons, including passengers and I gage. This record speed for thqi —the previous fastest was 112 ME an hour —was reached during lunch period, and passengers aaldt it was quite impossible to detest 4 the speed was faster than usual* smoothly and steadily did the «w run, v

During the run some very £ speeds were maintained. For a than sLc miles the average was L miles an hour, and for 11 miles train ran at more than lOO.mUqi hour. At the time the record i established the train was travel] over a gradient of on- in 264, a'V slight tall These speeds are a marked acbk ment for a steam-hauled train mpa on ordinary service with a full ll of passengers and luggage. K doubtful if such speeds have b equalled on any railway in the Wl by ordinary trains on a regular sen run.