MALLARD '88

RUNTIME: 60 MINS

CAT: AWA287
UPC: 881482328796
RRP: $14.95

50 years before this footage was shot, on July 3^rd 1938, a streamlined locomotive of the London north Eastern Railway shot to everlasting fame by breaking the world speed record for steam. 

The speed achieved that day on Stoke Bank, 126 miles per hour, was never to be equalled by any other steam locomotive. The A4 Pacific No. 4468, named Mallard, was designed by Sir Nigel Gresley for work on high speed passenger trains, a task which she performed admirably until she was withdrawn from service in 1963. In 1988, Mallard appeared restored to her beautiful LNER garter blue livery and to full working condition. 

This one-hour program follows Mallard in 1988, the 50^th anniversary of her record-breaking run. It starts with the boiler test and a special run for filming in the York-Harrogate-Leeds-York circle during which driver Harry Wilson’s efforts in the cab were recorded on the very day he retired.The cameras were in Banbury for the Postal run in May but the real celebrations began exactly 50 years from the day of the record.