Scotland's Fast Train

It is now clalmed that the Caledonian eai'ly morning train from Carlisle to Aberdeen is the fastest train in the world. An expert in speed who made the trip says that for twenty miles Uie average was 72.8 miles an hour, and for two miles 81.6. The whole performance is descrlbed as the ordlnary work now on the Caledonian, and far in exoess of English times. The engine was the Dunalastair, which, in addition to large cylinders, has the largest boi'er of any locomotive in Great Britain. In ten years the'Caledonian has reduced the time from Carlisle to Aberdeen from 7 hours 32 minutes to 4 hours and 31 minutes.