POLISH TERRORISTS
REACHED 102 MILES AN HOUR
Speeding through the morning haze, the “Ghost Express” has made its first post-war run from Edinburgh to King’s Cross. Between Grantham and Peterborough—the London and North Eastern Railways. record breaking stretch—she reached 102 miles an hour. Pulled by the ten year old streamlined flyer Silver Fox, the ghost train’s four carriages covered the .393-mile trip in six hours 30 minutes, with three stops. On board were a score of engineer experts with special instruments that record every . kind of vibration caused by high-speed travel. Mr Cecil J. Allen, one of the experts who made the trip, said: “It has been a highly successful test. The tracks appear to be in excellent order.”
Allowing for the time lost by the three stops—at Newcastle, York, and Grantham—we did the trip in little over six hours.” An official of the L.N.E.R. said: “It is essential for the main-line track to be tested and proved 100 per cent, perfect before the highspeed trains, such as the Coronation, can run again.” World record for steam trains was made in 1938, when the L.N.E.R. engine Mallard, hauling seven carriages, reached 125 m.p.h.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 10, Issue 30, 27 September 1946, Page 3
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