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timill ([personal profile] timill) wrote2008-07-03 10:47 am
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Seventy Years Ago

today, at about 4.30pm, LNER A4 locomotive 4468 Mallard set a rail steam speed record of 126 mph, which remains unbeaten to this day, despite other claims.