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The history of the Mallard Steam Train: The Mallard Steam Train was built by Sir Nigel Gresley in 1938. It is known around the world by it's record speed of 160 kph. It's length of journey is 2.4 million miles. It has been restored to it's final glory in the National Railway Museum in York. It was restored in the year 1986.
History of the Flying Scotsman: The Flying Scotsman train was also built by Sir Nigel Gresley in 1923. The purpose of this train was to go long distance travel. It was one of the first steam trains to reach 100 mph record. It also has a record of one of the non-stop train journey that ran 422 miles on 8th August 1989. This journey was from London to Edinburgh and it is now called Flying Scotsman Train Service. You can visit this train in 1968 on the National Railway Museum.
History on the Green Arrow: The Green Arrow train was also built by Sir Nigel Gresley in 1936. There were only 184 made. These were the major class used by Great Britain. The last produced train of the V2 was in 1944. The record speed of the V2 class was 93 mph. They are recognized as versatile and powerful.One of the V2 pulled 26 coaches and this shows that they are capable of pulling heavy loads. It was retired in 1962 till 1966.
History of Stephenson's Rocket: The Rocket train was built by George Stephenson and his son Robert and with the help also of Henry Booth in 1829 for trials. The trials were held by Liverpool and Manchester Railway. On the day of the trials 15 thousand people came to watch the two locomotives. On the race the Rocket reached high speed of 24 mph. It was the first train to have multi tube boilers. It had 25 copper tubes instead of single flue or twin flue. The blast pipe also increased the power of the Rocket and this made it go faster than it's rival and secured it's place in the history books. You can visit this train in the Science Museum in London. 
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