Flying Scotsman

[Not Now Kato]

Those were the days when a lady's knickers were big enough to hide her arse. Nowadays a lady's arse hides her knickers.

That reminds me of the question "Why do Quaterbacks in American Football Need Short Names"....
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[IDM]

ugh, I've just eaten!

Think you should stick to the engine pics

[BobG]

I'm soooo jealous Kato Wonderful! Thank you for sharing I hadn't realised Mallard was stabled in the same place as 4472. I do get to see the odd decent engine round here occasonally thank the Lord. Got some pics and a rubbish bit of video last autumn of a maroon Brush 4 (with the name Chris Fudge!) sharing the load with 34067 Tangmere in light steam at Swindon station. That was the loco, you might remember, that in March 2015 did a spectacular SPAD at Wootton Bassett and got West Coast Railways banned from running trains.... Sadly, WCRC are a pretty dodgy company at the best of times. They're in Court in Swindon, I believe, about now, facing criminal prosecution for this and a whole series of other pretty disgraceful incidents.

I'd never seen a Battle of Britain before. Quite good looking. 

Bob

[Donnywolf]

You did not come up for the Great Gathering then Bob with the 6 remaining A4s all at York and Shildon

We even got Dwight D Eisenhower back from the USA and Dominion of Canada from err yes Canada

[Bentley Bullet]

Notta lotta people know this but 60103 Flying Scotsman's tender was taken off an A4 Pacific, hence its corridor.

[Donnywolf]

... and famously had a Double Tender Cowcatcher and Bell for its Tour of the USA

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LNER_Class_A3_4472_Flying_Scotsman#/media/File:Flying_Scotsman_ready_for_US_tour_c1969.png

[Bentley Bullet]

Just been checking out the authenticity of my story of Scotsman's tender being from an A4 and now there is some doubt. I've just read that the tender was replaced by that of sister A3 Salmon Trout,  because it was a corridor tender. Also said that the boiler was replaced by the one on another A3, Highlander. 

PS. Both those replacements took place when Alan Pegler bought the loco.

[Donnywolf]

The Corridor Tender was used to facilitate a (the) non stop run to Edinburgh to allow a Crew change somewhere half way.

It allowed FS to be the first to run non stop LKC-EW - one of the records it holds of course.

[Bentley Bullet]

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9yWgDlkUtg" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9yWgDlkUtg</a>

[BobG]

What a cracking bit of film BB! Thanks. There's a mistake in it though - close to the end. That flat fronted diesel, the 6100, was never a Type 1. It was always a Type 2.

If any of you know Donny Shed just south and east of the mainline down past Balby in the late 60's and early to mid 70's there was a rusty boiler parked up on the way in. It had weeds growing round it.  I might be wrong but I always understood that that was a spare boiler for Flying Scotsman. No idea if it ever got moved away, used or just rusted away!

BobG

[Donnywolf]

What a cracking bit of film BB! Thanks. There's a mistake in it though - close to the end. That flat fronted diesel, the 6100, was never a Type 1. It was always a Type 2.

If any of you know Donny Shed just south and east of the mainline down past Balby in the late 60's and early to mid 70's there was a rusty boiler parked up on the way in. It had weeds growing round it.  I might be wrong but I always understood that that was a spare boiler for Flying Scotsman. No idea if it ever got moved away, used or just rusted away!

BobG

If it was left out down there even a day now it would magically get "collected" and weighed in !

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Great film featuring a lot of A4's - I saw the lot and they were my personal favourite "Class" - way ahead of A1s and A3s good as they were.

Mallard was the King of the A4s imo and still is - though there is not really anything to pick between them. I saw my last one 60011 Empire of India on the night of the Great Train Robbery as I was en route to Weymouth on a School trip to Guernsey. Happy days for me anyway

[Bentley Bullet]

"I saw my last one 60011 Empire of India on the night of the Great Train Robbery as I was en route to Weymouth on a School trip to Guernsey".


Have you got an alibi who can testify to that?

[Donnywolf]

YES ....all the kids who were trying to sleep (we left Donny at midnight pulled by Deltic Tulyar) as I spotted EOI parked at Peterborough

I ran like hell down the carriage to get to a door where I could get a positive ID after dropping the window and I dare say woke a few up on the way

I have always believed one of those Passengers was a certain JR and I have often wondered if he actually WAS on that train as we had First and Second formers on that Hol.

We arrived at Weymouth very early in the morning and then faced a very rough 4.5 hour crossing to Guernsey finding out on the way of a Mail Train Robbery - which of course happened on the Sheffield to St Pancras line I think it was !