If you have any comment to make, please contact me Bob Farmer
Answer to puzzle.
What follows is an amalgam of what I thought I knew and what people have told me and I remembered the broad outline correctly I am pleased to say! Some railway company in the USA built a locomotive and claimed the time they took as a world record. The LNWR is this country took this as a challenge and managed to assemble a Webb 0-6-0 locomotive at Crewe in the quite respectable time of 25 hours and 30 minutes. The GE responded by assembling in 1891, Y14 no 930 in the incredible time of 9 hours 47 minutes. Once they had finished the locomotive was steamed and sent straight out to traffic and covered over 30,000 miles before returning to Stratford for any necessary adjustments. The locomotive was built at Stratford at what is now the Olympic Park so if anyone ever asks you what was the first world record to be set in the Olympic Park, I would suggest this is it. I wonder if it would beat Chris of 'Eggheads?'
And although you will not be receiving further indices from me, I will keep your email addresses on file and will be exchanging the odd goodie with you from time to time. Bob.
