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The New Zealand Railways Magazine, Volume 3, Issue 2 (June 1, 1928)

World'S Record Non-Stop Runs

World'S Record Non-Stop Runs.

The London, Midland and Scottish Railway—widely famed for the excellence of its equipment and services—established (last month) two further world's records for the longest non-stop run. Two expresses were concerned in this remarkable performance, both leaving Euston station, London, for Glasgow and Edinburgh respectively. The distance covered in the one case was 401 ½ miles, and in the other 399 ¾ miles—both runs being made without a halt. These record runs involve, in both cases, two difficult climbs, one near the Shaw Summit (900ft high) in Westmoreland, and the other over the Beattock Summit (1000ft. high) in Lanarkshire. The previous world's record non-stop run was also made on the London, Midland and Scottish system, in a run from London to Carlisle, a distance of 299 ¼ miles.

Not only do these long non-stop runs meet the demand of the business and rail travelling public for speedy transit from place to place, but they are a striking tribute to the mechanical perfection of the modern locomotive.

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