 Don't miss Top Gear Sun 4th Feb - train into car on LC
"Rick Hughes" <rjh@talk21.com> wrote in message
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>> This televisual celebration of lawbreaking [1] isn't high on my
>> priority list, and calling a 31 a "high speed train" is probably
>> actionable under the Trades Descriptions Act.
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> Wash your mouth out! I once clocked a pair of 31/4s at 102mph on the WCML.
Is that the same as the 40 that can pull 100?
> Once. When they worked some Barrow - Manchesters on five MkIIs, they could
> reach their 90mph official top speed on the Lancaster - Preston section.
90 perhaps. This could be reached with six Mk 1s on the back between
Micklefield and Church Fenton (it's downhill).
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Tim
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