At the Great Western Railway works at Wolverhampton, the directors are having engines specially constructed to run the journey between Loudon and Land’s End in less time by an hour than the distance is now being done, so that the rate of _ speed will be seventy miles an hour. Their present trains to the West of England are the quickest in the world, but this new arrangement ec ipses all known practical modes of locomotion. Luxuriously furnished carriages are to be introduced.
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Globe, Volume V, Issue 563, 7 April 1876, Page 3
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82Page 3 Advertisements Column 1 Globe, Volume V, Issue 563, 7 April 1876, Page 3
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