BRITAIN'S FAST TRAINS
NEW RECORD FOR GREAT WESTERJN. The train that carried the Australian cricketers on the first stage of their homewara jounie-v from London to Birkenhead set up new railway records. It did the journey from Paddington in 8 hours and 56 minutes, or 25 minutes caqder schedule time. It attained a speed of 92 miles an ftour between London and Birmingham, for the first time in the history of the Great Western, and covered 110 miles In 106 minutes. This was four minutes less than the time scheduled for this particular run to Birmingham, and fourteen minutes less than the ordinary fwo-hours’ run to Birmingham. The world's record train speed is the 102.3 miles an hour attained by a Great Western train from Plymouth to London on May 9, 1904. Near. Slough, where the line is fairly level, its speed was 91.8 miles an hour.
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Dominion, Volume 20, Issue 59, 3 December 1926, Page 18
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