redbowen 131 Posted February 25, 2016 Report Share Posted February 25, 2016 I have just been watching the Flying Scotsman setting off from London to York.What a beautiful sight! They have had to close the east coast main-line due to people on the side of the line. It was stated that this was not a protest but due to the volume of people wanting to see this famous engine. They said that steam was dead.I think that this proves the opposite. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
radfordred 6,284 Posted February 25, 2016 Report Share Posted February 25, 2016 Anyone know where & when the Scotsman can be seen today in Nottinghamshire? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
FLY2 10,108 Posted February 25, 2016 Report Share Posted February 25, 2016 Newark or Retford. It left KX at around 8. York eta is lunchtime or thereabouts. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
radfordred 6,284 Posted February 25, 2016 Report Share Posted February 25, 2016 Best get yersen to Newark 11:23 Retford: 11:42 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Just Me 46 Posted February 25, 2016 Report Share Posted February 25, 2016 Off to York on March 3rd to see it in the museum....can look at it longer there Quote Link to post Share on other sites
catfan 14,793 Posted February 25, 2016 Report Share Posted February 25, 2016 Yawn, zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz :) 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
benjamin1945 16,139 Posted February 25, 2016 Report Share Posted February 25, 2016 Nearly as bad as Buses int'it Mick ?.............lol. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
TBI 2,351 Posted February 25, 2016 Report Share Posted February 25, 2016 #81 Bored catfan, were you expecting a thread about a yogic Glaswegian in a sauna. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
FLY2 10,108 Posted February 25, 2016 Report Share Posted February 25, 2016 ALL Gresley engines were aesthetically pleasing and very easy on the eye. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bubblewrap 3,815 Posted February 25, 2016 Report Share Posted February 25, 2016 This example wasn't exactly pleasing to the eye 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
FLY2 10,108 Posted February 25, 2016 Report Share Posted February 25, 2016 Just a one off thankfully Bubble. It was better when rebuil into the W4. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bubblewrap 3,815 Posted February 25, 2016 Report Share Posted February 25, 2016 60700 was a W1 & the only 4-6-4 on the L.N.E.R. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
FLY2 10,108 Posted February 25, 2016 Report Share Posted February 25, 2016 W1 yes another senior moment. I didn't check my facts. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bubblewrap 3,815 Posted February 25, 2016 Report Share Posted February 25, 2016 I started spotting a little late (1960) I think the W1 was withdrawn in 1959. I also missed the LMS Garratts Quote Link to post Share on other sites
DaveN 1,118 Posted March 6, 2016 Report Share Posted March 6, 2016 There's a programme on BBC 4 at 8.30 pm tomorrow (Monday 7th March) called "The Return Of Flying Scotsman" 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
DJ360 6,721 Posted March 6, 2016 Report Share Posted March 6, 2016 My Grandson Ben is 4. I don't think he's ever seen a real steam loco running, but he is a rabid fan of Thomas and his friends. Col Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Just Me 46 Posted March 7, 2016 Report Share Posted March 7, 2016 I went up to York to see the Flying Scotsman in the railway museum. It looked splendid stood on the turntable in the Great Hall but nowhere as near impressive as when it is in steam. I'll be nipping up to Pickering while it/s running up and down the North Yorkshire Moors Railway to see it in all of its splendour. I as told by a curator at the museum that in his opinion, after its boiler ticket expires in 10 years time. it will be kept on permanent display in the museum, never to run again. Such a pity. Also in there was Duchess of Hamilton in all its streamlining. I'm not old enough to have seen these locomotives running about streamlined. They must have been a spectacular sight. That loco will never run again as it is out of gauge now Quote Link to post Share on other sites
ValuerJim 277 Posted March 7, 2016 Report Share Posted March 7, 2016 Just watched the Flying Scotsman programme on BBC4. Magnificent, and all hand-brush painted. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bilbraborn 1,594 Posted March 8, 2016 Report Share Posted March 8, 2016 Saw that as well. Brilliant. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
albert smith 803 Posted March 11, 2016 Report Share Posted March 11, 2016 Inaugural Run 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted March 11, 2016 Report Share Posted March 11, 2016 Thanks Albert,wish I had been on it..lovely lovely steam!! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
carni 10,094 Posted March 11, 2016 Report Share Posted March 11, 2016 Very interesting albert. One of the things I have always wanted to do was have a trip on the Flying Scotsman. We spent nearly three years whilst courting in the 60s going between Notts and W-ton at weekends on the Steam Trains, so glad I had that experience, not many of todays youth will have that pleasure. Sometimes it was a smelly , smokey experience; but great all the same. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bilbraborn 1,594 Posted March 16, 2016 Report Share Posted March 16, 2016 I really adore all the heritage steam locos, but they will never create the true atmosphere of the railway when steam was king. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bubblewrap 3,815 Posted March 16, 2016 Report Share Posted March 16, 2016 Couldn't agree with you more Bilbraborn 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bilbraborn 1,594 Posted March 24, 2016 Report Share Posted March 24, 2016 The awful stink of a badly steaming loco, the thick clag all over the place, the funny wheezing sounds of a very sick loco and of course the layers and layers of pure muck on all the rolling stock. Not forgetting the steam days infrastructure like semaphore signals, multiple sidings, proper station signs, saggy telegraph wires with rows of swallows sitting on them. The list is endless. Happy days. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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