The Fastest Railroad Train in the World.
Competition* between two of the great English lines of railroad has recently taken the form of cutting down the running time. The London and North- Western and the Great Northern, striving against each other for the traffic between > London and Edinburgh, have reduced the running time between these -points to eight hours. By the first named road, the distance is 410 miles, by the other it is 397. 3Tor the entire distance, the schedule is slightly exceeded by the short B. and O. run between .Baltimore and Washington, 40 miles in 45 minutes.^ But the length of tho trip removes, it from the comparison. On, the North- Western' road, one run without a Jialt of J{s miles in three hours' i«| a part of the trip.
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Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 322, 5 December 1888, Page 4
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133The Fastest Railroad Train in the World. Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 322, 5 December 1888, Page 4
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