City of Truro is a British 4-4-0 steam locomotive built in 1903 for the Great Western Railway at its Swindon Works to a design by George Jackson Churchward. It is remembered chiefly for a celebrated run from Plymouth to London Paddington in 1904, during which some observers believed it became the first locomotive to exceed 100 miles per hour, a claim that has been disputed ever since for lack of fully reliable timing evidence.
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1. GWR 3700 Class 3440 City of Truro (Wikipedia)
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April 1903
In Group: British Main-Line Passenger Steam Locomotives, Lead sentence
GWR 3700 Class 3440 City of Truro is a 4-4-0 steam locomotive built in 1903 for the Great Western Railway (GWR) at Swindon Works to a design by George Jackson Churchward.
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