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As archrival to the London and North Eastern Railway (LNER), the London, Midland and Scottish Railway (LMS) developed its own express passenger engines for Anglo-Scottish traffic on the West Coast Main Line (WCML). The strongest and fastest engines were Sir William Stanier's Princess Coronation-class Pacific (4-6-2) steam locomotives, which entered service in 1937 and reached 114 miles per hour, beating a Gresley Pacific. Gresley avenged the LNER in 1938 when Mallard reached 126 miles per hour, which remains the steam speed record. The only surviving Stanier Pacific to still be streamlined, Crewe-built No. 6229 Duchess of Hamilton, is on display at the National Railway Museum in York with one of its matching pinstriped red Coronation Scot coaches, and sits in the same hall where Mallard is usually displayed.

Description
As archrival to the London and North Eastern Railway (LNER), the London, Midland and Scottish Railway (LMS) developed its own express passenger engines for Anglo-Scottish traffic on the West Coast Main Line (WCML). The strongest and fastest engines were Sir William Stanier's Princess Coronation-class Pacific (4-6-2) steam locomotives, which entered service in 1937 and reached 114 miles per hour, beating a Gresley Pacific. Gresley avenged the LNER in 1938 when Mallard reached 126 miles per hour, which remains the steam speed record. The only surviving Stanier Pacific to still be streamlined, Crewe-built No. 6229 Duchess of Hamilton, is on display at the National Railway Museum in York with one of its matching pinstriped red Coronation Scot coaches, and sits in the same hall where Mallard is usually displayed.