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No. 6220 Coronation held the British steam speed record between 1937 and 1938, 114 miles per hour (183 km/h). [ 2 ] [ 3 ] It held that record until beaten by 4468 Mallard in 1938. Secondly, No. 6234 Duchess of Abercorn holds the record to this day for the greatest British power output to be officially recorded on an attached dynamometer car ...
There was therefore for a while a blue 6229 Duchess of Hamilton in the UK and a red 6220 Coronation in the US. R.A. Riddles drove for most of the tour, owing to the illness of the assigned driver. The locomotive (though not its carriages) was shipped back from the US in 1942 after the outbreak of the Second World War , and the identities of the ...
Though the record now lay with the LMS, the scare led to both companies declaring an unofficial truce. This was only broken the following year by the LNER with A4 Class 4468 Mallard, which reached 126 mph whilst trialling a new quick action braking system. In 1939, 6220 temporarily swapped identities with 6229 Duchess of Hamilton.
LMS Princess Coronation Class 6229 Duchess of Hamilton; LMS Princess Coronation Class 6233 Duchess of Sutherland; LMS Princess Coronation Class 6235 City of Birmingham; LMS Princess Coronation Class 6256 Sir William A. Stanier F.R.S.
Class Number in class Dates LMS numbers BR numbers Notes Princess Royal Class: 12 1933-1962 6200-1, 6203-12 46200-1, 46203-12 Turbomotive: 1 1935-1952 6202
In a 15 May 1935 run by locomotive No. 2 and a dynamometer car, the railroad documented a top speed of 112.5 mph (181.1 km/h). This was the fastest authenticated speed reached by a steam locomotive at the time, making #2 the rail speed record holder for steam and the first steam locomotive to top 110 mph (180 km/h).
Hamilton has raced to 92 career victories and is on the verge of equalling Michael Schumacher’s all-time haul of seven world championships.
In the 1995 "Shap trials" (30 Sep to 3 October) 71000 broke the record for the fastest northbound ascent and achieved the highest EDHP figures during the event, its average over the Shap ascent was 2300 and peak 2803. The Duchess of Hamilton (46229) generated EDHP figures of 2150 and 2343 respectively.