One for Terpe





Reunited one last time - six of Britain's greatest steam engines including world record holder Mallard and its five surviving sister locomotives

  • Six A4 class locomotive brought together to celebrate Mallard's steam speed world record 75 years ago
  • Mallard reached 126mph on the East Coast line near Peterborough in 1938, a record which still stands
  • More than 50,000 people have so far visited the six engines which are at the National Railway Museum
  • Other engines are Sir Nigel Gresley, Union of South Africa, Bittern, Dominion of Canada and Dwight D. Eisenhower




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A prime example of British engineering briiliance