07/02/16

[Maik]

Famous Flying Scotsman goes full steam ahead

Flying Scotsman, one of the world's most famous locomotives, has returned to the West Coast mainline.

Railway enthusiasts welcomed its return following a £4.2m restoration project, which lasted 10 years.

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-35515743

[TonyKath]

Impressive sight but not such a good vid.  Try the one that follows:



Tony

[Maik]

Impressive sight but not such a good vid.

True, but I thought the sight of the Scotsman crossing the Ribblehead viaduct was worth seeing.

An interesting thing I noticed on the second vid was that the Scotsman changes track around 1:01 and again around 2:56

Well, yeah, guess that's not that interesting, actually 

[Colleywobble]

That sound just gave me goose bumps!!!

[Jolly Roger]

Last time I was on a train pulled by Flying Scotsman was in 1958 on a British Railways scheduled service. In this video, I couldn't work out why the BR number 60103 is displayed on the boiler door and a number I didn't recognise on the cab. Pre Nationalization would have been 4472.

[Maik]

Had me wondering...

Left of the cab shows 103: https://youtu.be/URCH3ZLuQKo?t=1m16s

Right of the cab shows 502: https://youtu.be/1oDdu948vyg?t=1m7s

The locomotive was completed in 1923, construction having been started under the auspices of the Great Northern Railway (GNR). It was built as an A1, initially carrying the GNR number 1472, because the LNER had not yet decided on a system-wide numbering scheme.

Flying Scotsman was something of a flagship locomotive for the LNER...  in February 1924 it acquired its name and the new number of 4472.

Flying Scotsman emerged from Doncaster works on 4 January 1947 as an A3... By this time it had been renumbered twice: under Edward Thompson's comprehensive renumbering scheme for the LNER, it became No. 502 in January 1946; in May the same year, under an amendment to that plan, it become No. 103. Following nationalisation of the railways on 1 January 1948, almost all of the LNER locomotive numbers were increased by 60000; No. 103 became 60103 in December 1948.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LNER_Class_A3_4472_Flying_Scotsman#History

[Jolly Roger]

Thanks for finding that explanation Maik, all makes sense now - I think.
Incidentally, I went over the Ribblehead Viaduct three years ago, pulled by a Black 5, No. 48151. I was amazed by the speed we acheived while running parallel to the M6. We were going faster than the traffic on the motorway, possibly 80 mph. Very impressive!

[Bluenose]

Impressive sight but not such a good vid.  Try the one that follows:



Tony

Get in Tony great vids. It's the same as watching the Who in their prime. Power and glory !

[Bluenose]

Last time I was on a train pulled by Flying Scotsman was in 1958 on a British Railways scheduled service. In this video, I couldn't work out why the BR number 60103 is displayed on the boiler door and a number I didn't recognise on the cab. Pre Nationalization would have been 4472.

Rog you lucky man ! I only arrived one year later. But my dad used to take me to see the engines when I was a boy. Steam,oil,grease,the sound of thunder. Luv it

[TonyKath]

Although we did get three fast main line steam trains through my local station as a kid - Brighton to Exeter, Bristol TM and Cardiff - the reality for many was the local branch line like the one very near us.  Nice vid below of old footage with slightly intrusive background music and dubbed steam sound but show what it was really like including the sad last day of the line in 1964 post Beeching.  The steam locos ran from Brighton to Shoreham by Sea on the main line and then branched off to Bramber, Steyning, Christ's Hospital, Horsham and some on to Guildford if memory serves.  Watch out for the guy nipping across the by then electrified track in front of the loco at Shoreham!!  The journey passes Shoreham airfield (site of the horrendous crash last year) the huge cement works and the ancient railway toll gate where it cost two old pence to pass but us went free on our bikes!



Tony

[Jolly Roger]

Last time I was on a train pulled by Flying Scotsman was in 1958 on a British Railways scheduled service. In this video, I couldn't work out why the BR number 60103 is displayed on the boiler door and a number I didn't recognise on the cab. Pre Nationalization would have been 4472.

Rog you lucky man ! I only arrived one year later. But my dad used to take me to see the engines when I was a boy. Steam,oil,grease,the sound of thunder. Luv it

I lived in Ilford and my misspent youth was often spent in the London Engine sheds, so I was lucky to be able to see a range of engines from different regions.

Great video Tony, very evocative of times gone by. I checked some of the engines shown in the video in my Ian Allen spotters book and have seen both 32345 and 41300. The latter was shedded at Salisbury, so would be quite rare on that line!