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THE RAILWAY MARVEL THAT BEAT THE WORLD - Yorkshire Post review

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The revised best selling book about Mallard's epic adventures Mallard — How the 'Blue Streak' Broke the World Speed Record, by Don Hale OBE -  John Woodcock of the Yorkshire Post reports . For those who marvel at the British star of the National Railway Museum, a new book contains some startling disclosures. The Nazis and an Italian car designer played their part in Mallard's world speed record. Now published by The History Press.  In the age of steam, the footplate rather than a football, was the route to celebrity. Unbelievable though it seems now, engine drivers on the East Coast Main Line were almost as famous as today's soccer stars. The London & North Eastern Railway saw valuable mileage in promoting those who propelled their expresses. A man entrusted with Flying Scotsman and the other classic names had his face featured on all kinds of marketing material. Biscuit tins, playing cards, jigsaws and posters. Few jobs were as prestigious in any sphere. Among

MALLARD - How the Blue Streak Broke the World Speed Record

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JUST over eighty years ago on the East Coast main line, the streamlined A4 Pacific locomotive Mallard reached a top speed of 126mph a world record for steam locomotives that still stands. Since then, millions have seen this famous locomotive, resplendent in her blue livery, on display at the National Railway Museum in York. Here, Don Hale tells the full story of how the record was broken: from the nineteenth-century London Scotland speed race and, surprisingly, traces Mallard's futuristic design back to the Bugatti car and the influence of Germany's nascent Third Reich, which propelled the train into an instrument of national prestige.  *The book is now available on Amazon:   https://amzn.to/3CpF12p *An abbreviated second book - MALLARD - The railway marvel that beat the world is also available via Amazon:  https://amzn.to/42Ep4zY Don Haled also celebrates Mallard's designer, Sir Nigel Gresley, one of Britain's most gifted engineers. Mallard is a wonderful tribute to on