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More Light on the 'City of Truro'
Issue 1 (1983)
p.19
On Tuesday 10th May 1904 two Plymouth newspapers reported that on the previous day a GWR special train travelling from Millbay Dock to Paddington had reached a top speed of 102.3mph descending the bank from Whitehall summit down towards Wellington in Somerset.
The author describes his attempts to discover the most likely composition of the train as well as the probability that 102.3mph was in fact reached.