The coal was hot. The crew were ready. On July 3rd, 1938, the 4468 Mallard, an A4-class steam locomotive, was performing an alleged brake test for its London and North Eastern Railway (LNER) owners.

Seventy-five years ago a world record was achieved by a steam engine called Mallard. Its design inspired by Bugatti motor cars, the A4 Pacific class locomotive thundered along the east coast ...

Now living in a care home in Knaresborough, Mr Lowther was taken to visit the A4 Pacific locomotive at the National Railway Museum in York. Mallard still holds the world steam speed record of ...

Seventy-five years ago a world record was achieved by a steam engine called Mallard. Its design inspired by Bugatti motor cars, the A4 Pacific class locomotive thundered along the east coast ...