Mixture 1970s-2003

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This video was taken in 1994 when the Flying Scotsman was at the NVR and is of a trip from Wansford to the NVR Peterborough station and the return trip to Wansford.

This late BR green with German type smoke deflectors is what a an A3 looked like in the last years with British Railways. But with less dirt and grime, that all steam locomotives were like in the last years of steam.

This video was taken in 1994 when the Flying Scotsman was at the NVR  and is a short verison of the video above.

Flying Scotsman at Orton Mere in 2018

 

 

A3 60103 'Flying Scotsman' on Saturday 29th September 2018 at Orton Mere.

  What does Flying Scotsman look like?

There has been a lot of talk about the colour of Flying Scotsman. What colour should it be with the A4 boiler and double chimney and the German type smoke deflectors that it was using at the NVR and at York in 2004?  

The late BR green with German type smoke deflectors is nearer to what it looked like it its last years with British Railways. But less all the dirt and grime of the last years of steam. ( I saw Flying Scotsman at Peterborough North about 1959 and if it had not stopped in the station, you could not have seen its name or number, under all the dirt and grime)

The LNER green, with its old LNER number of 4472, which Flying Scotsman has carried for most its time, after it was sold by BR is all wrong.

The German type smoke deflectors were taken off when it was sold by BR. But there was still a need for them to help the driver see were he is going. This is because they help lift the steam above the cab in certain wind conditions so the German type smoke deflectors were put back on. 

The A4 boiler with a double chimney will soften the exhaust blast and stop it lifting just above the cab windows which is why they were put on in the first place. The shape of the A4 does the same job.

 Flying Scotsman in 2019 is the right colour and number for the for the locomotive as it is now. 

was it to be be BR green, (or even in wartime black. it looked nice at Railfest  at York in matt black ,even if it sould have been gross black). Will it has its smoke deflectors and its double chimney and be in BR  green

The man or woman in the street thinks, it should be in apple green, with LNER on its tender and the number 4472, what ever it looks like.

I was hoped that the  rebuild at the NRM on Flying Scotsman was to be done in 2010/11? Then in 2012 it was still not done.

In Spetember 2014 its was still not done but the end was in site ?

I am not going to go into why its was not done on time the first time.    The locomotive went to Riley & Son (E) Ltd, Bury on East Lancashire Railway Riley & Son (E) Ltd  the on the 2nd go. They have made made a very good job of taking back to a shell and rebuilding the locomotive.

In 2016 the A3  was at last finshed and has now run on the mainline.It has also run on the NYMR and the SVR. There have been far to many poeple so far at these events, a little like when Tornado was first on the mainline.

The cost of its overhaul has filled many pages. I will just say it was a Lot.

It was was nice to see Flying Scotsman back  in steam in 2018 and 2019, at the Nene Valley.