TRAIN’S RECORD SPEED

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22999, 30 September 1936, Page 7

TRAIN’S RECORD SPEED

113 M.P.H. FOR HALF-MILE NEWCASTLE-LONDON RUN > _____ (From Our Own Correspondent) (By Air Mail) LONDON, August 29. On its 268 miles journey from Newcastle-on-Tyne to London this week the London North-Eastern Railway’s train Silver Jubilee travelled for half a mile at a speed of 113 m.p.h. The engine was the Silver Fox, and it pulled eight coaches equal to 270 tons, including passengers and luggage. This record speed for the run (the previous fastest was 112 m.p.h.) was reached during the lunch period, and passengers said that it was quite impossible to detect that the speed was faster than usual, so smoothly and steadily did the coach move. During the run some very high speeds were maintained. For over six miles the average was 110.8 m.p.h., while for 11 miles the train ran at over 100 miles an hour. At the time the record ’ r as established the train was travelling over a gradient of 1 in 264, a very slight fall. These speeds are a marked achievement for a steam-hauled train running on ordir ry service with a full load of passengers and luggage. It is doubtful if such speeds have been equalled on any railway in the world by ordinary trains on a regular service run.