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No. 4472 Flying Scotsman is a LNER Class A3 4-6-2 "Pacific" steam locomotive built in 1923 for the London and North Eastern Railway (LNER) at Doncaster Works to a design of Nigel Gresley. It was employed on long-distance express passenger trains on the East Coast Main Line by LNER and its successors, British Railways ' Eastern and North Eastern ...
The Flying Scotsman is an express passenger train service that operates between Edinburgh and London, the capitals respectively of Scotland and England, via the East Coast Main Line. The service began in 1862 as the Special Scotch Express until it was officially adopted in 1924. It is currently operated by the London North Eastern Railway.
After overhaul, Scotsman worked a number of railtours, including a non-stop London–Edinburgh run in 1968, the final year of steam traction on British Railways. After a much-publicised appeal in 2004, Flying Scotsman was purchased by the National Railway Museum in York and is now part of the National Collection. [44]
Flying Scotsman is due to have a full mechanical inspection after a low speed crash. The 100-year-old steam train was involved in a “shunting incident” on Friday at Aviemore Railway Station ...
On both occasions, the train was hauled by the famous locomotive, No. 4472 Flying Scotsman. [2] In the preservation era, steam locomotives had only recommenced departures from King's Cross in 1994, after a 30-year gap. The departure at the time was an Elizabethan train only as far as Peterborough, hauled by No. 60009 Union of South Africa. [2]
The station is home to a heritage train line that takes visitors on steam train trips in northern Scotland. Several people were injured after the Flying Scotsman, the historic steam locomotive ...
Nigel Gresley. Sir Herbert Nigel Gresley CBE (19 June 1876 – 5 April 1941) [1] was a British railway engineer. He was one of Britain's most famous steam locomotive engineers, who rose to become Chief Mechanical Engineer (CME) of the London and North Eastern Railway (LNER). He was the designer of some of the most famous steam locomotives in ...
List of LNER Class A1/A3 locomotives. Below are the names and numbers of the steam locomotives that comprised the LNER Gresley Classes A1 and A3, that ran on the Great Northern (GNR) and latterly the London and North Eastern Railway network. They represented Nigel Gresley 's attempt to standardise steam design.