Timeline Sunday 3 July 1938

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Sunday 3 July 1938

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Events on Sunday 3 July 1938 1

1938 Mallard sets steam speed record LNER locomotive reaches 126 mph The LNER Class A4 locomotive Mallard reached 126 mph (203 km/h) on a descent near Stoke Bank, south of Grantham. No steam locomotive has officially gone faster.

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