Flying Scotsman

Never heard this "story" before....

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That would need some further explanation since both 4472 and 60052 were running in 1965. But does anyone know the story of 60052's scrapping at St Margaret's shed? That seems unusual. Were some parts acquired for/by Mr Pegler?

 

Br Database says that while it was withdrawn off St Margarets, it wasn't scrapped there. It says 'Sold to P W McLellan, Langloan for scrap 20/6/66'. The story regarding 60103/60052 strikes me as nonsense.

 

Flying Scotsman ran between Swanage and Harmans Cross stations and attracted record crowds [and urgently needed profits] in the Summer of 1994.
The picture is not sufficiently clear to me to make out who is on the footplate. Roland Kennington might have been pictured - but I don't think so as he tended to use either a boiler suit [like Alan Pegler used to do] or a set of NSW railway overalls he was given whilst the loco was in Australia.
I, along with many other SR drivers, drove the loco and found it very responsive.
The low loaders brought engine and tender from the Nene Valley Railway arriving in Swanage on Friday 15th July and left from the newly opened road/rail siding at Norden in September but, unfortunately, I did not keep a note of the leaving date.
I believe the lorries may have taken engine and tender to the Llangollen Railway although I'm not entirely certain of that.

 

There have been various stories about the originality of Flying Scotsman over the years. ISTR that, during its major rebuild after the bodged job at NRM, it's original number was found stamped on parts of the brass window surrounds. Many parts may have been taken from other locos over the years, a la "Trigger's Broom", but I think it is unlikely that all of the brass cab window surrounds would have been changed.