Mohave County miner., 1884-03-23
FEEE FASTEST TRAIN EN
 ENGLAND. Tlae ''EiyiEg ScOtCIiEsaasa'' Speed izg Four Hundred Mikes
 EE Einc Hours.

! more SNll.iy jilail JHOS6 OL dtiJ CtASi
 nation; but, at the same time, there lis a general vagueness with regard
 to tle1r actual rate of motion that
 has @ great effect in exaggerating the
 reports of their speed Every one
 naturally claims that the train by
 which ho Lim5elf frequently travels
 ls the first in point of speed. The tourist CT the sportsman rushing
 down to Scotland believes in the
 Flying Scotchmau," the great ten o'clock morning train from King's Cross, which runs into Lincolnshire
 without a stoppage, and after allow
 i8g thirty minutes a5 York for a
 ha51y midday meal, reaches E.Jin-
 burgl at seven o'clock, in time for a substantial dinner at the Northern capital. Another candidate tor the bonors of speed is the Flying
 Dugclmau, of Bristol and Exeter
 celebrity. IL is broad guago train
 and there is a very prevalent idea
 thai, no matter how great the speed
 of otLer lines may be, the great
 widta that Brunei introduced ena-
 blcs a higher velocity to be obtained
 on the Great Western than anywhere
 else. 4 third competitor, with many
 parasans, is the Wild Irishman,'
 carrying tue Holyhead mall, not only for Ireland, but for Anerica,
 and vIa San Francisco, for Australia
 and New Zealand. The yaguest ideas, as already said. prevail as to the running speed Of these trains. The speed of the Flying Scoschman is generally assumed to be fifty miles
 an hour; the E i'd Trishman is cred tied with tbo same rate; bn5 the friends of the Flying Dutchman maintain that tic run from London tp Bristol averages sixty, and that it|
 Jar ahead Of all its rivals in rel
 ri to speel. Among such diyerai- Ssss s5E 0IizioH i5 may De int resting to give few particulars Of these caanpson trains. The partisans oi tbe Wild Irisbman will be d;sap- pointed when they hear that, what ever may be tha result Of the nsE5- now pending, CT that may have baen completed between the ! London and Northwestern Company and the PostoEoe, the Irish mail' canno5 even be named in the com petition. The quickest Of the ioUr trains known by this name and 1t may be noticed that 1t stops more i than its three namssakes ' 1ayerages 40.6 miles an hour; ao tlht though, by the help Of the steam CT, Nle route to Dublin Is probably | ,le \;akes5 sea and Iand journey ia tie wcrld, still, as d tram, the Wild ] Irishmau is inferior to other trains of inc London and Northwestern 1 Company, l.ch does not pretend to run the quickest train in England. 'Bradshaw" lsso parYleziDg a study to many porsous, that, in order to | save furiher trouble, il may be well 70 admit that the struggle for the first place ln spe@d4ies between two wel-kuown trains, tie Flying Dutch- maa Of tie Great Western and the Flying Scotclman ;ei tie Great Northern, and the competition be tween them is extremely keen.
 The Flying Dutchman is broad guage train, leaving PadUnstya Station at HAS midday aQd it runs IS far as Swindon without a.stopp31e. It is the custom for all Gre( West ,rn trains to come 10 haIe st thia station, and the Dutchman stoAN -or en minutes, devoted orefreshm9SJz, liter which 1t resumes its course; Sd 1 liter a momentary stay at Bath, \
 caches Bristol at 2:2l, after run oA 16t miles. Notwithstanding tle\ Of the city of the Avca, | ,nly five minutes for rest are allowed . md at 2:26 the Datchman has esumed his wild career, and is ushiug at full speed for Taunton, where there is a pause, hardly a and at 1 o'clock in the
 fternoon the train rolls into Exeter -I93i miles from London. The peed not allowing for stoPpaSes, ' must Lave been 45.6 miles per hour.
 The other tram whose claims Las 0 be examined is the Flying Scotch nan. This i5 a narrow guage train eaving King's Gross, London, at 70 !. h., en rouIe for Scotland It's irst start is impressive, for 1t opens with the longest run without a pause ! n England, and probably in t4e world, in the shape Of a run b frautham in Lincolnshire, a distance f 105 miles, Six minutes alo