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Thousands of pounds has been raised to mark the grave of the driver who set the world steam record with Mallard. The Doncaster-built locomotive hit 126 mph (203 km/h) in 1938, with Joseph Duddington ...

A 91-year-old former steam locomotive fireman has been reunited with the famous record-breaking engine he worked on when he was just 16. Len Lowther spent two years as part of the Mallard's crew in ...

Seventy-five years ago Mallard broke the world speed record for steam locomotives. Bob Gwynne, assistant curator of rail vehicles at York’s National Rail Museum, tells the story of the “secret” run ...

Sir Nigel Gresley, pictured at his desk in Doncaster, is to be celebrated in a new exhbition in the city The man behind world famous steam locomotives such as the Flying Scotsman is to be honoured in ...

Legendary locomotives of the London North Eastern Railway will appear proudly alongside an LNER Azuma train at York and Darlington today ahead of Azuma passenger services launching later this week ...

For no more than a couple of minutes on July 3 1938, Mallard thundered along at speeds that have remained unmatched by any steam locomotive for three-quarters of a century. A handful of men in ...

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