Sadly, the anniversary was marred by a spat over whether sculptor Hazel Reeves’s design should feature a mallard duck, in reference to one of his most famous engines, the Class A4 locomotive Mallard.

Top topiarist Brian Childs' privit-themed bush is so convincing kids can even hitch a ride on the replica of the 1938 Mallard WACKY Brian Childs has cut his hedge into a 7ft-high replica of the ...

LNER Class 4 engine broke the world speed record of 126mph along the East Coast Line new Grantham in July 1938 The locomotive has ... Gathering' to celebrate the Mallard's achievement is taking ...

Mallard broke the world speed record for steam in 1938 at 126mph (203km/h) near Grantham, Lincolnshire The world's fastest steam locomotive has been moved onto the tracks at York station for the ...

The Senior Curator at the National Railway Museum in York, Anthony Coulls, says the Mallard exhibition of all surviving A4 locomotives – including two from America and Canada, is a once in a ...

Image caption, Joe Duddington and his wife Mary, who died aged 41, how have a headstone in Hyde Park Cemetery in Doncaster Image caption, Mallard set the 126mph steam locomotive world record in ...

On 3 July, 1938, the Mallard steam locomotive reached speeds of 126mph along the East Coast Main Line near Grantham and broke the world steam record – one that still stands today. To celebrate ...

SCOTS who worked on the world’s fastest steam locomotive, Mallard, are to take part in the largest ever train crew gathering on Saturday at the National Railway Museum in York. Did you know with ...

The Mercury Train takes its visual cues from the iconic British Mallard train–perhaps one of the funkiest trains ever made. But here, the lines have been stretched and the nose cone has been ...

The world's fastest steam locomotive has been moved onto the tracks at York station for the first time in 30 years. Mallard broke the world speed record for steam in 1938 at 126mph (203km/h).

Mallard broke the world speed record for steam in 1938 at 126mph (203km/h) near Grantham, Lincolnshire The world's fastest steam locomotive has been moved onto the tracks at York station for the ...