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    1906 ‘120mph’ test run highlighted at Didcot Lady of Legend launch

    May 07, 2019 3 minutes
    By Robin Jones
    ROBIN JONES
    FRANK DUMBLETON

    A PURPORTED 120mph GWR experimental steam run said to have taken place in 1906 just two years after City of Truro was unofficially clocked at 102.3mph – was highlighted at the official launch weekend of new Churchward Saint 4-6-0 No. 2999 Lady of Legend at Didcot Railway Centre.

    The official launch of No. 2999 – the culmination of a 45-year project by the Great Western Society to re-create a Saint by back-converting an example of its successor – took place at the centre on Friday, April 5, when TV presenter Prue Leith – a former member of the British Railway board – cut a ribbon as the locomotive stood in steam on the turntable.

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