Flying Scotsman on show at National Railway Museum [BBC News]
Date: 27/05/2011
The Flying Scotsman steam locomotive will go on show in York this weekend after a five-year overhaul.
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Flying Scotsman back on display
BBC News
The Flying Scotsman steam locomotive is unveiled as it goes on public display in at the National Railway Museum in York.
Love me tender: The rebirth of the Flying Scotsman
Scotsman
The locomotive that has hauled one of the most famous trains in the world since the 1920s will be unveiled for the first time tonight after a £1.5m rebuild
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4472 Flying Scotsman (honest) in the workshops at the National Railway Museum, York, in September 2007. [See image 4383]
Location: National Railway Museum York
Company: National Railway Museum
25/09/2007 Colin Miller
Location: National Railway Museum York
Company: National Railway Museum
25/09/2007 Colin Miller
4472 Flying Scotsman runs north through Tweedmouth station on 9 May 1964 with Pegler's Pullman en route from Doncaster to Edinburgh. Tweeedmouth shed (52D) can be seen in the rear right of the photograph. The locomotive spent the following 9 days in Scotland on railtour duty and returned south light engine on 18 May. It was during this visit that the initial work on the Terence Cuneo painting of 4472 on the Forth Bridge was undertaken.
Location: Tweedmouth
Company: Newcastle and Berwick Railway
09/05/1964 Robin Barbour Collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney)
Location: Tweedmouth
Company: Newcastle and Berwick Railway
09/05/1964 Robin Barbour Collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney)
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