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for high speed running (particularly Stoke Bank) than any other in the UK.In August 1936, the Silver Jubilee train on the descent of Stoke Bank headed by No. 2512 Silver Fox driven by George Henry Haygreen achieved a maximum of 113 mph, then the highest speed attained in Britain with an ordinary passenger train. The fastest recorded post-war speed with British steam was also recorded by an A4. This occurred on 23 May 1959 on the Stephenson Locomotive Society Golden Jubilee special when No. 60007 Sir Nigel Gresley

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