On Mon, 1 Feb 2010, David Cantrell wrote:

On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 10:25:15PM +0000, Pyromancer wrote:

Midland Railway, England (90 mph)
It took almost a decade for England to regain its dominance with a
record-breaking run aboard an 8-foot-long, eight-wheeled locomotive from
Melton Mowbray to Nottingham

I really don't want to think what the ride would be like on an
eight-foot long loco doing 90mph over the jointed track of 1897!
Presumably it was a single wheeler with 8' drivers? Or was it some
esoteric contraption fuelled entirely by finest pork pies? :-)

TGV, France (357 mph)
Journalists on the title run reported dizziness ... and difficulty
standing

Shades of the APT there :-)

Shades of rush-hour Northern line - although there, it's dizziness and
difficulty doing anything at all except being crushed.

tom

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