schedule on trains such as the Silver Jubilee and The Coronation, with the engines reaching 100 mph on many occasions. Mallard covered almost one and a half million miles (2.4 million km) before it was retired in 1963.

The locomotive is 70 ft long and weighs 165 long tons (168 tonnes, 369,600 lbs), including the tender. It is painted in LNER garter