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1. The first authenticated run at 100mph by a steam locomotive was achieved by which famous locomotive?
2. The 100mph record, set in 1934, was beaten a year later by Papyrus by achieving what speed?
3. Sir Nigel Gresley is reputed to have climbed down from the footplate of which engine pointing at his watch and exclaiming '112mph!'
4. Mallard's famous record-breaking run received no advance publicity; the attempt was disguised as:
5. The post-war speed record for steam was set in 1959 by 60007 Sir Nigel Gresley working as a special train for which organisation?
6. The 112mph record had almost certainly been surpassed a few years previously by the same driver and locomotive, but the speed of 117mph could not be authenticated, possibly because the driver would have been in serious trouble if it had! Who was the driver?
7. 50 years after Mallard's record run a famous east coast driver retired after a day driving her. Who was he?
8. Sir Nigel Gresley's successor Edward Thompson had very different ideas on locomotive design but his rebuild of which locomotive caused most acrimony amongst Gresley followers?
9. Thompson apparently told his eventual successor A. H. Peppercorn that he would not get his job as Chief Mechanical Engineer because
10. A famous class of LNER locomotive left Kings Cross in March 2003 for the first time since the end of steam on British Rail. Which class?
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