THE FASTEST TRAINS.
OVER 78 MILES AN HOUR. It is claimed that two Great Western trains from Bristol are, for a long run, the fastest in the world. They are timed to travel the 90.9 miles between Badminton and Southall in 87 minutes, an average speed of 62.7 miles per hour. Over a portion of this distance —the section between Badminton and Woo-ton-Bassett—the afternoon train leaving Bristol at five o’clock is timed to cover seventeen miles in thirteen minutes,' an average speed of 78.5 miles per hour. The 11.15 morning train from Paddington to Bristol covers the 118.3 miles in 128 minutes.
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Wairarapa Age, 9 December 1921, Page 4
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102THE FASTEST TRAINS. Wairarapa Age, 9 December 1921, Page 4
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