Mallard BASIC
It was also optimised for speed it is named after the LNER A4 class 4468 Mallard locomotive, the fastest steam locomotive in the world, once again displaying the company's fondness for railway-oriented nomenclature. (For instance, see the company name itself.) In fact the Locomotive name came from the phrase "To run like a train" and it was this theme that was used to name Mallard BASIC no other Locomotive product was named after anything railway-oriented.
High-speed rail in the United Kingdom
Various claims exist for the first locomotive to break the barrier, notably the Great Western Railway's "City of Truro" (1904) and the LNER's "Flying Scotsman" (1934). Locomotive power capable of reaching has existed in Britain since 1938, when the LNER's "Mallard" broke the steam locomotive speed record.