Image 3717, preserved, NRM
3717, preserved, NRM
3717, preserved, NRM Another of the Great Western's finest is seen preserved inside York's National Railway Museum. Initially numbered 3440 'City of Truro' became 3717 in 1911 after a partial re-build by the GWR at Swindon. I am not going to get into the 'did it-didn't it' debate as to whether it was the first locomotive to reach one hundred miles per hour now...so much has been written on the subject already. However, what a fine-looking machine dating from a time just two years after Queen Victoria died! Keywords: 3717 preserved NRM National Railway Museum City of Truro
3717, preserved, NRM Another of the Great Western's finest is seen preserved inside York's National Railway Museum. Initially numbered 3440 'City of Truro' became 3717 in 1911 after a partial re-build by the GWR at Swindon. I am not going to get into the 'did it-didn't it' debate as to whether it was the first locomotive to reach one hundred miles per hour now...so much has been written on the subject already. However, what a fine-looking machine dating from a time just two years after Queen Victoria died! Keywords: 3717 preserved NRM National Railway Museum City of Truro


Another of the Great Western's finest is seen preserved inside

York's National Railway Museum. Initially numbered 3440 'City of Truro' became 3717 in 1911 after a partial re-build by the GWR at Swindon. I am not going to get into the 'did it-didn't it' debate as to whether it was the first locomotive to reach one hundred miles per hour now...so much has been written on the subject already. However, what a fine-looking machine dating from a time just two years after Queen Victoria died!