The A4 pacific Bittern has run from London to York yesterday in honour of mallard's record run in 1938. It received special permission to exceed the 75MPH speed limit for steam trains on the main line, and achieved 92.8MPH while hauling a full passenger train.
The six surviving A4's will be re-united at York to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the record run on July 3rd. More details and pictures in this BBC report. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-23109971
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Here is some video. Several videos of this event are popping up on YouTube now. 
No question about it.
In the words of the immortal Brother Dave Gardner, them A4s could "flat git it".
And if you're not old enough to remember who Brother Dave was, I don't wanna know about it.
EdKing
WOW!!!!!!!!
It shows where the differences lie in priorities to preserve Locomotive technology.
Loved watching that
it's nice to see that our steam heritage can work with our main line networks to re-enact how an art-deco icon can perform as it used to in its hey day
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