Date: 08/01/2016

One of the world's most famous railway locomotives, Flying Scotsman, is to take its first public test-run under steam after a decade off the tracks. The engine, which was retired from service in 1963, has been restored for York's National Railway Museum (NRM) in a shed in Bury, Greater Manchester. Low-speed test runs begin later along the East Lancashire Railway (ELR). Andrew McLean, NRM head curator, said: 'From the dead it becomes something living and breathing again.' The first test-run will see the engine move out of its shed and travel a short distance down the track to the heritage line's Bolton Street station. It marks the end of a £4.2m restoration project, which was begun in 2006 by specialist engineers at Riley and Son Ltd, based in Bury.

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One of the world's most famous railway locomotives, Flying Scotsman, takes its first public test-run under steam after a decade off the tracks.

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