Flying Scotsman Re-Opens The Settle & Carlisle Railway 

Damn! I love the engine. but that whistle is pure EARRAPE!

Many thanks to Michael Portillo who saved this line from extinction.

Shame they gave it the wrong number and colour 😢🤷🏼‍♂️ it was most famous in APPLE GREEN! I sat on my dads shoulders and saw her go past Hatfield on her last day of service in the RIGHT MARKINGS and colour. Nice to see her back but PLEASE put her back to her proper colour and number. 1924 she was numbered 4472 LNER markings and APPLE green......and lose that awful whistle and smoke deflectors, it looks like some foreign thing 😡

I love that high whistle. It drives away the grey, injects some cheer, and makes one hopeful.

Flying Scotsman's 95! It's incredible that this dear old lady of an engine can take on the stiffest sustained gradients of any line in Britain, such as are found on the Settle and Carlisle railway - and all this with an 11 coach load and no backing locomotive for that part of the run! We're all proud of her - and of those who fought to keep the line open. Not forgetting the people who built this man-made wonder of Northern England, too...

Saw the Scotsman fail to stop on iced over rails at Durham station she shot clear of the platforms before stopping.

Outstanding footage covering the event well at great locations along the line. Regards JamesandPeter

A superb overview of the S & C reopening day from some excellent locations. Most enjoyable video footage of the occasion and of Flying Scotsman. Regards - Allan.

Great video coverage of Scotsman on the S&C re-opening. Well covered, lots of good locations. thanks for sharing, Geraint

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I concur with everyone else. Beautiful video. But hey, why was Scott rattling like that?

looks ugly with all that rubbish on its nose.no gwr loco's that have double chimneys have all that jerry garbage also don't have smoke problems scot must be poor design

That is not how he is supposed to sound! It's good to know that he's doing much better now. Stay safe Scott.

Beautiful locomotive; pathetic whistle! Superb videography as always.

Superb video Divid. Outstanding coverage of this historic event. Fantastic location capturing the Flying Scotsman working well. Thoroughly enjoyable watching. Kind regards C&A

Excellent as ever David and Peter , the best coverage by far and I should have been at Risehill myself but daftly changed my mind ( not many trees left ).

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Your camerawork is by far the best I've seen on this subject. Elegant shooting with excellent framing and just enough camera movement to make the content interesting. Well done - very watchable! Alan (retired professional cameraman).

Excellent, just wished I could taken to time of work. To me, the Scotsman looks well in Brunswick green, much better than the LNER Apple green

What a beautiful Train! and before you reply the loco is nice also!

Outstanding video, that must have taken so much planning, Thank you for sharing, David, Tunbridge Wells.

Let that whistle blow! Full open!

Yes it was well worth saving

She looked sooooo much better when Sirs Pegler and McAlpine owned her.

Excellent capture of light, selection of camera position, of content, so well done. Makes me want to burn my camera.

Well done David - a superb set of shots at so many locations - a wonderful record of this historic occasion.

Thanks for that David. It really was a great day; history in the making. I went up to Eden Brows on the Wednesday before. They were running driver famils. in 124's. Fantastic engineering but a shame "the bridge" was made from Chinese Steel! There is a GPS monitor there that apparently monitors movement of the line to 1,000th of an inch! On Friday we were at Dandry Mire on the Hawes Branch Line & on 122a Grisedale Bridge in the evening. Weather held off ok as well! Had been lashing down all week! BTW, I was having a cup of tea with the signalman at Garsdale on Sunday & he told me he is extended to 2021. Hope The Box lasts that long, it's looking a bit "poorly" these days! Anyway David, thanks again and all the best. Nick.

Excellent sequences and editing, David - really telling a story, which ticks all the boxes for me, thanks. Oh yes, and your characteristic local interest shots. The only slight disappointment was the presence of the diesel at the end but more than compensated by your capture of the superb smoke colouring of 90733. Best regards, Bob K

Excellent a wonderful train

Comprehensive and enjoyable coverage of a fine day out David. I guess a lot of planning went into that little lot and I hope you got all that you wished for. Thank goodness the line is open again. Take care - Chris

Excellent coverage of the day David, wonderful to have the S & C back again

Thanks David, you certainly got some good coverage. Did you cope with the crowds ok?

A fantastic well put together film, you covered the whole days events perfectly, congrats.

There were some fine shots there.

Once again outstanding cinematography of iconic steam locomotives doing what they do best in the english countryside. Amazing work !

And to think, only a dozen or so years ago there was talk of closing the line for good and a landslide like this would have been the ideal opportunity. Today it is pleasing to see how some stretches have been so thoughtfully rebuilt.

Great use of multiple camera angles to tell a story. What a fantastic sight at the end from the Wd & 37.

Lovely. Evocative, beautiful and thrilling.

great train shame about the german deflectors and the stupid whistle

they must think its a race horse by putting blinkers on it spoiling its appearance and its got a terrible number to go with it. I thought it was supposed to be heritage. They have spoilt a lovely engine

Epic and superb. Cheers, Alan

Well done Sir. Brilliant video.

Nice to see the line open again, I was at Smardale.

Great video thanks for posting it