Date: 19/03/2012

It is with great sadness that we report that Alan Francis Pegler passed away on Sunday 18th March 2012 after a short illness. He was 91. It was Alan's intervention that made the restoration of the Ffestiniog Railway a possibility, from which the initial funds needed to transfer ownership of the FR to the current administration were provided. Alan was President of both the Ffestiniog Railway Society and the Festiniog Railway Company. He was awarded an OBE in the New Year Honours List in 2006. [From Richard Buckby]

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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)

4472 takes the Flying Scotsman Anniversary Special south away from Hawick on 16 April 1966 on its return from Inverkeithing to Northallerton. The special had been organised to celebrate the third anniversary of the purchase of the locomotive by Alan Pegler.
Location: Hawick [2nd]
Company: Border Union Railway (North British Railway)
16/04/1966 Bruce McCartney