LNER Class A4 4468 Mallard

Mallard, No. 4468, out in the sun on a siding at the National Railway Museum in York in June 2010, its garter blue streamlined casing on full show. Built at Doncaster in 1938 to Nigel Gresley's design, it is an A4 class 4-6-2 Pacific. On July 3, 1938, on Stoke Bank between Grantham and Peterborough, it reached 126 mph, the world speed record for a steam locomotive, and no steam engine has matched it since. It is a static exhibit and one of the museum's highlights, so York is the place to see the fastest steam locomotive ever recorded.