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Mallard ducks, the most common duck in New Zealand, are connected to all three. Southland farmers have shown examples of ...
Also shortlisted is Ann Emily Carr’s 1980s painting Mallard, which holds the 126mph steam locomotive speed record, travelling over the River Tweed. On the west coast, The Coronation Scot ...
Amongst the lots are several rare, limited edition pieces, including a boxed limited edition 00 gauge R2684 4-6-2 Mallard A4 Class Locomotive, produced in 2008 to mark the 70th anniversary of that ...
The Edinburgh-born railway engineer was Chief Mechanical Engineer of the London and North Eastern Railway and famously designed the Flying Scotsman and Mallard steam locomotives, both built in ...
Update: 'Wonderful site' as 60007 Sir Nigel Gresley pictured passing through Watford The 1937 locomotive is due in town on a return ... including the Flying Scotsman and Mallard. It previously ...
Named the ‘record breaker’ for a reason, the LNER A4 locomotive Mallard set the world speed record for a steam engine at 126 mph at Stoke Bank, just south of Grantham. Add this iconic piece of ...
The note – not being shown in the exhibition - reads simply: ‘J. Duddington, driver of Mallard 4468 engine, 125 miles per hour on July 3rd 1938, world record.’ The speed was later verified ...
His plaque features an image of the pioneering Mallard locomotive; you can see another nod to it at King's Cross station, with the statue of its designer, Sir Nigel Gresley. ASLEF — Britain's ...
Along with the aerodynamically streamlined Mallard locomotive of the late 1930s, the Flying Scotsman was one of the ‘crack expresses’ of the steam era. These fast trains incorporated the ...
On July 3, 1938, Mallard rocketed down Stoke Bank to set the still-standing world record for steam locomotive speed at 126 mph. Keith Fender On May 9, 1904, the Great Western Railway’s City of Truro, ...
The A-4-class locomotives were designed to be fast passenger trains used in England and Scotland as the front of the locomotive is in an aerodynamic shape. The Mallard — currently residing at the ...
It was on 3 July 1938, that the A4 class locomotive Mallard raced down Stoke Bank between Grantham and Peterborough at 126mph to set a new steam locomotive world speed record. Doncaster’s Joe ...