Fastest and most famous launch the newest!
NEARLY six years after it last left its National Railway Museum home, Gresley LNER A4 Pacific No. 4468 Mallard saw daylight again on Wednesday, July 30, on its old stomping ground of the East Coast Main Line.
As part of the launch of modern-day operator LNER’s new Azuma services between King’s Cross, York, North East England and Edinburgh, the world’s fastest steam locomotive, the centrepiece of the award-winning Mallard 75 celebrations in 2013/14 which marked the 75th anniversary of its 126.1mph world steam railway record run down Stoke Bank in Lincolnshire on July 3, 1938, was hauled by two DB Cargo Class 66 diesels from the York museum the short distance into platform 7 of the adjacent main
