High Railway Speeds.

The world's record for railway speed is often claimed by Germany. Prior to the Great War, an electric train was run on the military railway at Zossen, near Berlin, at over 100 m.p.h. The Great Western Railway of England, however, claims to have beaten this record by operating a steam passenger train over a short distance at 102 m.p.h. Light railcars have on occasion actually attained higher speeds than these. The “Automotrice Bugatti,” for example, built for the French State Railways, not long ago attained a speed of 107 m.p.h. during trial runs. Taken all round, however, regular daily runs like those of the “Flying Scotsman,” the “Royal Scot” and the “Cornish Riviera Limited,” provide instances of really praiseworthy fast operation that would indeed be hard to beat.