LNER Steam

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1. The first authenticated run at 100mph by a steam locomotive was achieved by which famous locomotive? Mallard King George V Royal Scot Flying Scotsman

2. The 100mph record, set in 1904, was beaten a year later by Papyrus by achieving what speed? 108mph 103mph 101mph 105mph

3. Sir Nigel Gresley is reputed to have climbed down from the footplate of which engine pointing at his watch and exclaiming '112mph!' Sir Nigel Gresley Mallard Silver Link Silver Fox

4. Mallard's famous record-breaking run received no advance publicity; the attempt was disguised as: a running-in turn for a new locomotive braking trials crew training permanent way measurements

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? British Rail Eastern Region The Stephenson Locomotive Society Locomotive Club of Great Britain Railway Travel and Correspondence Society

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? Peter Coster Joseph Duddington Bill Hoole Ted Hailstone

7. 50 years after Mallard's record run a famous east coast driver retired after a day driving her. Who was he? Harry Wilson Henry Wilson Harry Williams Henry Williams

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? Flying Scotsman The last batch of the excellent V2s 10000 'The Hush Hush' Great Northern

9. Thompson apparently told his eventual successor A. H. Peppercorn that he would not get his job as Chief Mechanical Engineer because Peppercorn was planning to marry a woman 30 years his junior. Peppercorn was too old. Peppercorn's ideas were too close to Gresley's. Thompson planned to continue in post until the formation of British Railways.

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? Answer: (One letter and one number)