CHELTENHAM FLYER
STILL THE FASTEST TRAIN
(British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, September 20, (Received Sept. 21, at 5.5 p.m.)
A maximum speed of 92 miles an hour was attained by the London Midland and Scottish express train with seven coaches, hauled by an engine of the Royal Scottish between Coventry and London. The Cheltenham Flyer remains the world’s fastest train, for although its maximum speed lias now been equalled its average speed on the Swin-don-Paddington run was 81.6 miles per hour, compared with the 74 miles per hour of the Coventry-London express.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22065, 22 September 1933, Page 7
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