Flying Scotsman

#7875 above gives you the answer.

 

Didn’t follow the Queen’s lying in state much then. Southwark Park and the queue was all across the news.

 

Just checked back .... still hasn't happened.

 

Welcome back to the war zone...

 

Surely just come back from a war zone as Greece and Turkey about to fall out again. Something the BBC News seems to not cover at all.

 

I followed Scotsman for while yesterday and she left Crewe at 12/0830 and she passed the Watford Railcam at 1207,I didn''t follow it all the way to Southall.She was in the Kings Langley loop for about 20' to 30' . She was scheduled into Southall at 1357.

 

Again? .... tricky with NI on our own doorstep I know, but not sure I'd call a situation pertaining since 26 August 1071 'News', as such.

There, I said the slight digression on the 1014 County of Glamorgan thread wasn't close to 'drift'.

 

Well this thread is not a place for this...can the mods or Goldflush put it into another...maybe..In between?

 

Apparently Tuesday arrival at Swanage: https://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/service/gb-nr:U14194/2022-10-18/detailed

 

How hard can it be to explain?

I am though impressed that post holiday you waded through more than seven days of NatPres to reply angrily to a one-line joke that clearly sailed over your head…

Simon

 

And here she is at King’s Cross:

 

Shiny and dull at the same time.

 

It should look (and smell) precisely as it did when the photo was taken. A portrait of power in repose, with a light feather of steam at safety valves.

Has anyone got a shot of it at Paddington? You know, just to balance the Hogwarts Express at KX.

 

She does look fantastic. I know not everyone's favourite but I think the double-chimney/deflectors/dark green looks proper 'A3 GTI' and I'm very much a fan.

Simon

 

Obviously I would have preferred a different shade of green (cough!) but - there's no doubting - she looks fabulous. Just as I remember at the Llangollen railway in 1994, with some minor differences as she has of course had little things like the split smokebox handrail applied on the smokebox door.

I don't understand how this locomotive generates such negative reactions from people. It's a steam locomotive with a varied and magnificent history, the sum total of the different railways that operated her and the people that worked on and clearly loved the locomotive.

It's always been something of British culture that I do not understand: when you get a cultural icon like this, there are those who want to bash it and whinge and moan and decry it...because it's popular?

Whatever, I am glad it's back in the capital and I hope a new generation of steam enthusiasts sees it over the next few days.

 

Absolutely. A stark contrast with those engines that had to rely on entirely fabricated records to achieve notoriety, like City of Truro…



Simon