Flying Scotsman

Evening all. Nowt to do with livery, much more exciting. Driving wheels are back and in according to an email I've just had from Steve Davies, looking forward to seeing in on Monday! We've been busy with another East Coast flyer today at Shildon, blog coming soon!

 

What colour are the wheels painted?.....;-)

 

Punnet of raspberries for Mr Scott!

 

How about these?

http://www.flickr.com/photos/hisgett/5110882598/in/pool-960835@N24/

 

Do we have rough idea when she'll go back to Bury?

 

Seen heading south out of York this morning, on the back of a low loader.

 

Off to Mr Riley,s...

 

Is it me or are the spokes of FS'S Wheels particularly finely spoked...
Hats off to SNG, His express engines looked fast, saw FS Doing a positioning Move round York when last in steam and at about 5mph the motion is Poetry, like a stalking Cheetah...

 

It helps that the wheels are in apple green...

 

I'd like a set like that for my Mini!

 

It arrived at bury this afternoon.

 

I understand from another site Mr Riley is turning the boiler upright today......................outside. God help them, the weather is appalling with really strong wind. Hope all goes well.

 

Fingers crossed they dont drop it !

 

York-shildon-York shuttle featuring 4472 now showing on UKSteam 17/18th Spetember 2011.

 

Taken from another site......boiler being hydraulically tested this week...........

 

As an aside, we should not forget the acheivement of Ian Riley's team in building what is virtually a new large traditional firebox for 60103.

Presumably as recently as when the A1 people were looking for this expertise it was not available in the UK and they went to Germany for a welded design.

Huge respect to Ian and his team, lets hope that the skills involved are now established for when the next "biggie" comes along.

 

Don't forget the considerable effort of Pridhams, in making the firebox kit of parts also.

 

Did Pridhams do the flanging then? Rileys rivetted it all together?

 

NRM have just posted on Twitter (@railwaymuseum) that the final colour will be their decision and, as 4472, people expect it to be in Apple Green. In a separate tweet they have also stated that without smoke deflectors steam and smoke blocks the drivers vision sufficiently to impair spotting of signals.

This conflicts with the 4472 webpage! Lets hope for 4472 in black until after trials!