Hi I from India. My dad, who had spent a few years in England in the 1950s told me about the Flying Scotsman. Once while returning from an office trip he got me a clock work model of the train. That was 55 years ago, I still have that train set. My dad passed away in 2009.
Such a beautiful steam engine!! It's a beautiful sight. I'm jealous I can't see this wonderful engine in person because I'm American but I appreciate videos like this to show her true power and beauty.
There's a woman on the platform who runs in fear when the steam shoots out of the cylinder drains as 60103 leaves. I laugh every time I see her jump and run.
Yeah. Because "live steam" can't hurt you and it would be way smarter to just stand there. Maybe she has some friend or family member who was injured or killed in a boiler explosion or other steam "incident". Or maybe she's just a hell of a lot smarter and/or has better reflexes than you do. Or maybe she was there at the time responding while you sit here on your ass watching a video.
@@bennickss Sorry, i can remember my dad taking me to see the Flying Scotsman as a little kid, it was about 1960, he knew how much i loved the train, so when he heard it was coming to our local station he took me to see it, the driver even lifted me up onto the platform, i was only 5yrs old but the memory of that day, and of my dad will stick with me forever.
Not much of it is 98 years old, many new boilers, double chimney, long lap valves, corridor tender, RHD to LHD, smoke deflectors, buffer beam cut down, air brakes fitted and the cab cut down, probably more, just like Triggers broom!
@@robertrich663 I remember seeing it in the nrm workshop. It was in bits. I think a lot of the work was done at the east lancs railway which is up the road from me.
Thanks to a lot of mechanical tinkering she's actually more powerful than she ever was during her heyday, when she was first built as an A1her tractive effort was 29,835 lbf with her upgrade to an A3 it was upped to 32,910 lbf but today it's around the 40,000lbf mark.
Move to Scotland (Edinburgh) and you'll also get to see this beastie with another magnificent example of Victorian engineering,when it crosses the Forth Rail Bridge.
Spider-Man // Alex And Jetzers In the RWS canon, Gordon was the prototype for the Gresley Pacifics, so technically he is the older brother to Scotsman.
lets hope all the do-good brigade,don,t try to stop them running, when ordinary coal is banned in 2023,i,m 100% totaly against the idea of banning ordinary coal & wet wood,has i burn over 3 ton of it every winter,i,m gonna have to use smokless fuel,but i wouldn,t like to think they would stop these machine,s running or to burn smokeless fuel( thats if they can use smokeless fuel) just because the do- good brigade don,t like it,i say to-hell with them
Even the most experienced driver's can't help it, if the engine slips, they need to get her back under control fast. That little slip was nothing, and the driver did very well to get the train going again.
@@oliverthegreatwesternengin8029 maybe but on that gradient she shouldn't have slipped at all and especially if the driver was being careful! You can not slip on a 1 in 49 so this is easy
It's to blow out water in the cylinders that has condensed from the steam. Water doesn't compress, so if they didn't do this it could blow open the cylinder or bend the piston rod.
Old Scotty was not always such a picture of pride. I well remember her , sitting i the sidings at Twicke ham Station, a semi-derelict mess, for many months. Then someone with more money than sense bought her as a restoration project. After canging hands, several times, she was aquired by a multi-millionaire construction magnate , of the McAlpine family. Several kings ransoms, and a lot of hard labour, later, she emerged , resplendant, as the engineering masterpiece she is today. Lonh live The Flying Scotsman
This magnificent locomotive, looking great and ready to make an impressive departure, and then the sound of a tea kettle comes out of it! Really just cries out for an American multi-chime whistle with a little "depth" to it.
scotsman had a american whistle for a few years funily enough, along with a few other modifications to make her able to run on the american mainlines for a few years during her ill fated tour of the states and that american whistle she had doesn't sound as good as the one she had from doncaster
@@cameronrichardson3108 There's a group in the Eastern U. S. that is building a replica of a Pennsy loco that was probably faster than "Mallard", and they may get a chance to do an official speed run to see if it is.
@@paulw.woodring7304 hmmm will be interesting to see but as it stands now and for a while yet possibly even forever mallard is the fastest steam loco ever made
I watched the whole video waiting for it to slip. Call that one tiny bit of slippage a 'slip'? It was extremely well controlled, hardly worth mentioning in the title (I won't say 'clickbait' because it's a nice video)
Came to see the wibble in the comments and I wasn't disappointed. Scrap it, saves everyone from moaning that it's the wrong shade of green or the numbers wrong.
York... my home city, and my uncle was a chef on that train, back when it was in regular service. That is not inside the main part of the station, which is also a beautiful historic building, built on a curve.
@@russellgreen3375 shame they changed the number though and removed the second tender, guess it was part of the new look Scotsman was getting during it's refit
Some steam trains are the first also. Those with hotmetal heaters, The inside energy in an alloy of metals is brought out to make heat. Google on my name. If you drive a diesel you live 60y old steam 70y electric overhead. 85y Clean steam 110y because it is a meditating locomotive. This is the return of steam.
