[after James overtakes Richard in the 1949 race, Richard calls Jeremy, who is several miles ahead]
Hammond, where are you?
Um, I'm about thirty miles south of Doncaster.
Oh, dear! We're in York.
What?!
Where's James?
He's just overtaken me, but his Jag is drinking fuel, so with a bit of luck, he'll stop for fuel before I do, and I can overtake him again.
Or he'll catch fire?
[Richard hears a tannoy announcement telling him to turn his mobile phone off]
What's that noise?
It's me being told off not to use a mobile phone by the man.
Go and tell him it's 1949.
Yes, so we can't have mobile phones.
[as the train starts to pull out of the station, it does a wheelspin]
Yes! That was wheelspin! On a 96-tonne train!
You're-- That is a steam train, isn't it? It's not got some nuclear device on board as well?
[the train is now on the move again]
[voiceover] No. What it had on board was a fresh crew. And that meant a fresh set of muscles.
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