St Thomas a Becket
Saturday, 30 June 2018 in 2h 41 (6–1–4 in B♭)
5040 Surprise Minor (7m)
1 ext each Morpeth, Alnwick, London, Lincoln, Allendale, Retford, Durham
1 Anthony D Walker
2 James E Benner
3 James F Thorpe
4 Ian Dawson
5 Michael Maughan (C)
6 P Barry Jones
Acrostic peal to mark the 80th anniversary of LNER locomotive 4468 Mallard setting the speed record for a steam locomotive of 126mph on 3rd July 1938. All method names also represent stations on former LNER routes and Greatford village lies adjacent to the East Coast Main Line a few miles south of Stoke Bank where the record was set