The coal was hot. The crew were ready. On July 3rd, 1938, the 4468 Mallard, an A4-class steam locomotive, was performing an alleged brake test for its London and North Eastern Railway (LNER) owners.

In the 1930s, speed records became a matter of national prestige, and Nazi Germany used high speed locomotives as propaganda symbols of technological dominance. Britain responded with the LNER Class ...

World record-setting engine, the Mallard, was the "high point of achievement" for British steam locomotive industry, a campaigner has said. Henry Cleary, from the Mallard Grantham Partnership, told ...