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For years people argued over what sort of locomotives to use.
Mallard its fellow A4-Pacifics is a story of Britain learning from the USA, Germany, Finland, France and other countries.
Can you imagine it? Carrying coal on bumpy tracks from mines to ships in big bags strapped to ponies.
How much pride, trouble and misery could a steam locomotive create?
It started off with people in Bristol wanting a railway to London 190km 120 miles away for carrying goods quickly between these two cities.