and red-hot, bullet-like cinders from the locomotive broke windows at Little Bytham...The force exerted by the brakes being applied caused Mallard’s big end bearing to run hot, and a slow run to ...

75 years ago Mallard set record for the fastest steam locomotive hurtling down the East Coast Main Line at 126mph Yesterday the iconic train was being towed by its sister loco the Union of South ...

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 world's fastest ever steam locomotive is to return to the district where it broke the record. Mallard reached a top speed of 126mph (203km/h) after passing through Grantham, Lincolnshire ...

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 ...

And yet, it was in this climate that Mallard, the world’s fastest steam locomotive, was created. Speed was not only seen as the ultimate sign of modernity during this era, but also a symbol of ...

It does not necessarily reflect the view of The Herald. THE memory of a man who once drove the Mallard locomotive will live on. Alf Smith, drove the locomotive in the late 1940s and early 1950s.

A headstone for the driver of the historic Mallard locomotive has been unveiled at a Doncaster cemetery. Thousands of pounds was raised to mark the grave of Joseph Duddington who set the world ...