FAST TRAVELLING.
BY EXPRESS TRAIN.
(Received Wednesday, 9.15 a.m.) LONDON, Tuesday.
The Great Western express, inaugurating an accelerated service, travelled from Swindon to Paddington, a distance of miles, in 72 minutes, and attained a speed of 83 miles an hour between Swindon and Didcot.
This is a record for the British Isles, and probably the world.—Aus. and N.Z. Cable Assn.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 49, Issue 14960, 11 July 1923, Page 5
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60FAST TRAVELLING. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 49, Issue 14960, 11 July 1923, Page 5
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