ELECTRIC LOCOMOTIVE
THE NEW "FLYING SCOTSMAN"
UNHID FRJ«a AiSOCIAIIOS.—COFTtItIT.)
(AUiTRAUiN • JCBW ZIALAIfQ CAILI ASSOCIATIOH.)
LONDON, 26th August. The North-Eastera Railway Company in Britain will shortly use to convey the "Flying Scotsman" between York and Newcastle the first highspeed electric locomotive built in Britain. It will be absolutely i safe, drawing a train weighing 450 tons at a maximum speed of 90 miles per hour, and ,an average of 60, miles per hour, over long distances. If it is successful the whole North-Eaat-ern system will use electric in preference %temn locomotives.
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Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 50, 28 August 1922, Page 7
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90ELECTRIC LOCOMOTIVE Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 50, 28 August 1922, Page 7
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