Rensselaer Republican, Volume 24, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 October 1891 — The Fastest Train. [ARTICLE]

The Fastest Train.

From Chambers’ Journal. As the question is often asked, “Which is the fastest train in the world?” it would be well to give it here with the particulars. The honor belongs to the Great Northern Railway Company. Their train which leaves Grantham at 4:18 p. m. and runs through to London (King’sCross) without stopping, arriving -there at 6:15 p. m., is the fastest train in the world, covering a distance of 1051 miles in one hour and fifty-seven minutes —averageing fifty - four miles an hour the entire distance. The speed of this train at certain places will exceed the rate of sixty miles an hour; but the passengers are unconscious of this unusual celeritv, as the train oscillates very little.