She was the first to drive 200 km/h – then a British woman stole her glory forever.

Описание: It was the first to exceed 200 km/h – and yet almost no one knows it. On May 11, 1936, the German steam locomotive Class 05 001 became the first machine in history to break the 200 km/h barrier. The measured speed: 200.4 km/h. Documented. Verified. Real. And yet, today a British locomotive holds the world record.

Two years later, in July 1938, the LNER locomotive Mallard reached 202.7 km/h on a straight stretch of track in Lincolnshire – exactly 2.7 km/h faster than the German machine. This record still stands today. And while Mallard is celebrated in museums, fills books, and thrills generations of railway enthusiasts, the Class 05 001 remains unknown to most people.

In this video, we tell the complete story. Why Germany built a record-breaking locomotive in the 1930s.

How the test run in Schleswig-Holstein went. What lay behind the official celebratory reports from the engineers? And why war, reconstruction, and the division of Germany led to this historic moment being almost completely forgotten – while Mallard became a legend.

The 05 001 series locomotive still exists today. It stands in the Nuremberg Transport Museum, fully restored, with its 1930s streamlined fairing. A machine that was the first to break the 200 km/h barrier. A machine that could have belonged to the world. But instead, it belongs to history – a history that hardly anyone knows.

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