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Mallard’s Record Breakers at Peterborough North (1938)

The crew of LNER A4 #4468 “Mallard” pictured at Peterborough North Station after their world record-breaking run on 3rd July 1938 when they pushed the 165 ton locomotive to a speed of 126mph on the slight downward grade of Stoke Bank south of Grantham.