THE SILVER JUBILEE
BRITAIN'S NEW STREAMLINE TRAM* HIGH SPEEDS OK TIDAL RUN (British Official Wireless.) Tress Association—By Telegraph—Copyright RUGBY, September 28. Very bigb speeds were reached by the streamline train Silver Jubilee on the London and North-eastern Railway yesterday in a trial run from King’s Cross, London, to Grantham. A top speed of 112 miles an hour was reached. The train covered •27 miles at an average speed of 104.9 miles an hour. The distance of 76J miles between King’s Cross and Peterborough was covered in 55 minutes, but it was later necessary to reduce the speed on account of other trains on the line, although the driver stated that it would have been possible to exceed 120 miles an hour. It was not for the purpose of breaking records {that the Silver Jubilee had been built, And when it is in regular service the maximum speed would be slightly over 80 miles an hour. Yesterday’s trial run took place on the 110th anniversary of the opening iof the first railway service in England between Stockton and Darlington, when a speed of eight miles an hour was Achieved. '
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Evening Star, Issue 22148, 1 October 1935, Page 9
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188THE SILVER JUBILEE Evening Star, Issue 22148, 1 October 1935, Page 9
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