Date: 21/01/2010

Lord Adonis vows to introduce a Flying Scotsman-style rail service to cut London to Scotland journey times to under four hours.

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A Deltic about to bring train 1S17, the thirteen coach down Flying Scotsman through Portobello East Junction in October 1972. The bridge and embankment in the background carried the Lothian Lines across the ECML and around the northern perimeter of Portobello Yard.
Location: Portobello East Junction
Company: North British Railway
30/10/1972 John Furnevel

Deltic D9019, as yet unnamed, photographed passing through Carlisle on Saturday 25 April 1964. The locomotive is in charge of the late running 1A35 1000 Edinburgh - Kings Cross Flying Scotsman which has travelled via the Waverley route following a derailment on the ECML near Belford. The Deltic is sporting the Winged Thistle headboard introduced on these services earlier that year. [With thanks to Paul Bettany for additional information]
Location: Carlisle
Company: Caledonian Railway
//1965 K A Gray

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)