Just over eighty years ago on the East Coast main line, the
streamlined A4 Pacific locomotive Mallard reached a top speed of
126mph - a world record for steam locomotives that still stands.
Since then, millions have seen this famous locomotive, resplendent
in her blue livery, on display at the National Railway Museum in
York. Here, Don Hale tells the full story of how the record was
broken: from the nineteenth-century London-Scotland speed race and,
surprisingly, traces Mallard's futuristic design back to the
Bugatti car and the influence of Germany's nascent Third Reich,
which propelled the train into an instrument of national prestige.
He also celebrates Mallard's designer, Sir Nigel Gresley, one of
Britain's most gifted engineers. Mallard is a wonderful tribute to
one of British technology's finest hours.
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