Mallard
/ˈmælɑːd/
/ˈmælɑːrd/
- the name of a steam engine (= a type of early train) which set an unbeaten world record for a train of its type in 1938 by achieving a speed of 126 miles per hour/203 kilometres per hour. It is now kept at the National Railway Museum in York.
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