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Monday 7 May 2012

City of Truro

At the National Railway Museum on an over cast bank holiday Monday


Incredible that this icon of railway steam speed records is still running at 100+ years.
City of Truro was timed at 8.8 seconds between two quarter-mile posts whilst hauling the "Ocean Mails" special from Plymouth to London Paddington on 9 May 1904. This timing was recorded from the train by Charles Rous-Marten, who wrote for The Railway Magazine and other journals. If exact (Rous-Marten's stopwatch read in multiples of 1/5 second), this time would correspond to a speed of 102.3 mph (164.6 km/h), while 9 seconds would correspond to exactly 100 mph.

My thanks to Wikepedia for the above note. The Video is mine ad was taken today as the rain just started


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