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This locomotive, 6015 King Richard III achieved a speed of 108 mph while hauling the Cornish Riviera Express on 29th September 1955.

One of a large class of engines named after English kings, King Richard III was completed in June 1928 and withdrawn from service in September 1962. It therefore had a slightly longer ‘life’ than the monarch for whom it was named.

Locos of this class were used on the premier express trains of the Great Western Railway and later British Railways (Western Region).