GREG Kirkwood (The Border Mail, August 14) wrote about the “City of Truro” steam train going 164km/h.
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I would suggest the Mallard, an English steam engine, achieved 202km/h on a demonstration run in England in 1936 to beat a German speed record.
The Mallard has been restored and is in the National Train Museum in York, UK.
— JOHN HAYDON,
Thurgoona