GWR City Class Locomotives

The story of City of Truro and her siblings

There are many reasons that locomotive number 3440 City of Truro is famous. She was the two thousandth locomotive at the famous Swindon Railway Works. She is a rare survivor of Edwardian railway engineering. But, perhaps, most notably she was the first locomotive to achieve the speed of 100 miles per hour.

City of Truro running with No 3717 at Didcot as …