96RAF Posted December 19, 2023 Share Posted December 19, 2023 Yes, if I remember, 6220 Coronation was entering Crewe a little 'hot' after the 114 mph run.Al. Page 28 of The Duchesses by Andrew Rodin describes it well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
atom3624 Posted December 19, 2023 Author Share Posted December 19, 2023 Great fun!!Thanks for sharing - can't see that happening nowadays!!So they took the optimistic speedometer reading, not the calculated one - only 2mph in it.Sounds like there was quite a bit more in 'the old girl' ....Pity LMS didn't have more opportunities to take on the LNER!Al. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rallymatt Posted December 19, 2023 Share Posted December 19, 2023 The thing that strikes me about this whole era is that it hasn’t hit the big screen. Whilst the Chief engineers were in reality good friends and often shared dinner and engineering solutions, there was genuine rivalry to be The Fastest. The batting of the title back and forth, genuine cutting edge technology and derring do of crews (and perhaps passengers!) and some of the actual wild events that led to great achievements, it’s got film written all over it. Fire in a romantic interest in period dress and a top sound track from Hans Zimmer, audiences would lap it up! 😁 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
atom3624 Posted December 19, 2023 Author Share Posted December 19, 2023 'Hollywood' that up a bit and you'd have an A4 and Coronation departing from the same station!!OK, perhaps a timed, simultaneous departure, shadowed by Tiger Moths at the start.Not certain how they'd ensure Scottish arrivals, but it'd have to be London to Scotland - Edinburgh one side, Glasgow the other, drivers cranking it where possible - and perhaps not!Lizzie's record? Out of the window on this one, we're talking A4's and (streamlined) Coronations here!!Al. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rallymatt Posted December 19, 2023 Share Posted December 19, 2023 Al, if Hollywood were involved they would have a wheel spinning launch from King’s Cross side by side. Even Paddington 2 was more authentic 🤣 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LTSR_NSE Posted December 19, 2023 Share Posted December 19, 2023 If Hollywood were let anyway near it, both trains would depart King’s Cross on adjacent tracks, both would pass an identical sequence of photogenic ‘landmarks’ (in a geographically impossible order of course) and finally one would end up at John o’ Groats and the other at Land’s End! 🤦♂️ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aussie Fred Posted December 20, 2023 Share Posted December 20, 2023 Only if they extend the Far North line from Thurso in the north and Main Cornish line from Penanze in the south-westthinking_face Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rallymatt Posted December 20, 2023 Share Posted December 20, 2023 CGI makes everything possible Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
What About The Bee Posted December 20, 2023 Share Posted December 20, 2023 I, for one, hope that Mallard's record remains standing.When Mallard set the record, steam power was the prime mover. The purpose was to put into the public's mind that this or that railway system was the fastest. If you wanted to get to your destination fastest, you took XYZ railways. Breaking the record had reason and purpose.Setting a new record for a steam powered locomotive now is solely to break the record, it has no purpose. Kind of like breaking the land speed record for a piston powered car (463mph) when ThrustSSC achieved 762 mph. Super nice that a piston powered car can go that fast, but irrelevant. The Japanese have the record for any train at 374.6 mph. Steam will not break this record. Steam is, for the most part, not even utilized now, being primarily a heritage system.Mallard did it when it counted. Leave it there.Bee Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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