City Of Truro

Pictured at Leicester North Station, Great Central Railway. Number 3440 City of Truro is a Great Western Railway (GWR) 3700 (or 'City') Class 4-4-0 locomotive, designed by George Jackson Churchward and built at the GWR Swindon Works in 1903. (It was rebuilt to a limited extent in 1911 and 1915, and renumbered 3717 in 1912). It is one of the contenders for the first steam locomotive to travel in excess of 100 miles per hour (160.9 km-h). Its maximum speed has been the subject of much debate over the years. In early 2013 the National Railway Museum declared the locomotive was to be withdrawn ahead of its boiler ticket expiry due to a hole being discovered in one of its tubes. Though it had been hoped to repair the engine it was found that the locomotive required more work than first thought and was unlikely to be operational in the foreseeable future.
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