RAILWAY RECORD
CARLISLE TO LONDON AVERAGE SPEED 52 MILES AN HOUR NON-STOP RON. (By Cable —Press Assn. — Copyright.) (Received 28, 12 noon.) Rugby, Sept. 27. A new railway record was set up yesterday when the London Midland and Scottish railway introduced a non-stop run of 299 f miles between Carlisle and London at an average speed of 52 miles an hour as a feature of their daily train service to and from Scotland. Hitherto the world’s record has been claimed for the London and north-eastern railways’ non-stop run of 268 miles from Newcastle to London.
Another notable non-stop run on British railways is the Great Western railways’ 225 miles between London and Plymouth. The drivers and crew of the London Midland and Scottish train, still wearing their overalls, were entertained at a banquet by the company on reachinc London after
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, 28 September 1927, Page 5
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