SPEEDY TRAIN.
NEW CORONATION SCOT. 314 MILES PER HOUR. (From a Correspondent.) LONDON, July 3. The Coronation Scot, blue and silvei streamlined London, Midland Scottish ?xpress touched 114 miles an hour or its trial run from Euston to Crewe [his week, and broke four records. They were:—For the highest speed ret reached by a British steam train: ? or the world's longest stretch of sustained speed—lsß miles, Crewe tc Euston, in one hour fifty-nine minutes it an average of eighty miles an hour; 'or the fastest journey from Euston o Crewe—two hours nine and threeluarter minutes, at an average of >evcnty-lliree. miles an hour; and foi
the fastest journey from Crewe to Eu s ton. Tom Clarke, crack driver of the said the Coronation Scot would beat, even these records when the engine had been “run in” in about six months. “ She's a bit. tight just now,” he said. The Coronation Scot ate up eight tons of coal and consumed 14.000 gallons of water on this run. The running was so smooth that there was j in'* sensation of speed, even when it , was dashing along at one hundred ■ miles an hour.
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Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20272, 14 August 1937, Page 11
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191SPEEDY TRAIN. Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20272, 14 August 1937, Page 11
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