The Steam Train That Captured The Nation's Heart | The Flying Scotsman: A Rail Romance 

"It was rescued three times by three different millionaires". Damn, that's how priceless and of great value she was.

Very surprised there was no mention of the Flying Scotsman’s Australian tour in the late 1980s. I went to see her steam into Perth. It was fabulous!

When I was child my family lived quite close to the rail lines that took trains up the east side of Britain. Train spotting was the best hobby. There was a foot bridge over the railway and we used to dare each other to stand on it as the locomotives roared underneath. You got covered in smoke and steam. I saw the Flying Scotsman many times.💕😂😂💕

I remember watching this years ago on another RU-vid channel. It was my first real British Railways related documentary. Thanks for uploading this!

I highly request the NRM should paint Flying scotsman back to its Lner apple green livery on its 100th birthday

Keeping the Flying Scotsman going is one of the best uses for money I can think of!! What an awesome example of British engineering. Thank you Brittan for inventing the train!!

I saw the Flying Scotsman when she visited Alice Springs in Central Australia. A true living machine. 🚂🇦🇺

I remember that Flying Scotsman is actually Gordon's brother. Flying Scotsman express coming through.

My granddad and uncle were part of the over haul team on the the Flying Scotsman when it was in Southall being worked on. I will always love this steam engine because it will remind me of my granddad

Flying scotsman will be 100 years old in the next 2 years as of October 13th 2019

I wish the age of steam never ended. Good old Flying Scotsman is a long-standing survivor for 100+ years and counting, just like the American locomotive Sierra No. 3 in Jamestown, California

Don’t forget longest nonstop run by steam locomotives

Scotland bagpipe players in kilts, really fits in The Flying Scotsman's name.👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼

I'm watching this in 2022. The date is February 24. Happy 99th anniversary to the truest legend of steam there ever was!!!!

Thank you for an excellent presentation. 🚂🚂🚂

It's amazing that she came to America/Canada for the Tour And stayed in Toronto for hibernation at the end of the 2nd year of the 2nd tour

12:52 now this is something we see very often here in the states when it comes to new heritage units being revealed, as well as locomotives being in storage for a long period of time. When they are to be stored for a long period of time, we just wrap them up and leave them. When we need them, we unwrap them, start them, oil them, give them a thorough inspection and run them.

The most beautiful steam locomotive ever built. I thought so as a child in the 60’s. There was no other Hornby/Triang model I want just the Flying Scotsman and I still have it.

I think scotsman deserves her LNER paint back

My Grandma rode on the Flying Scotsman, but she wasn't supposed to! She missed her other train and the conductor felt bad for her a gave her a free first class ticket on the Scotsman!

Not sure if he’s still steaming today, but The Flying Scotsman is an absolute legend.

Reminds me of 4014 the steam engine restored to running condition in the United States. Both excellent restorations!

A new and lethal competitor....... ... the Morris Minor.

What a pitty that nobody buy the OLYMPIC.. Now it would be a historic treasure with an incalculable value because it would be the real Titánic time ship and of course history and an original boat.

There is just one other steam locomotive that matches the fame of The Flying Scotsman, The Union Pacific "Big Boy".

In 2021,the Flying Scotsman is Now 98 years Old. He's Practically a Grandpa Engine Now!

Just want to able to see this train

We met 4472 when she was in Australia in 1988. We took part in a parallel run into Sydney between 4472 and New South Wales’s prime locomotive 3801. That was a thrilling experience which I still have on film on RU-vid. It is entitled LNER FLYING SCOTSMAN 4472 ON ITS AUSTRALIAN TOUR 1988. Graham Wilcox

Remembe when flying Scotsman went to America,That's why he is a superstar

Pls one day make this go up by storm in views

Estas locomotivas sempre foram maravilhosas!!! (Steam Locomotive were wonderfujll - F o r e v e r ....) Sou Brasileiro e tenho inveja de Vocês.

Muchas Gracias!✌

Wow! I had no idea the Flying Scotsman came to the US and toured the country.

I realy like steam locomotives

Well, the wheel arrangement wasn't *completely* new, the Pacific wheel arrangement was used once before A1s, on a Great Western one-off, "The Great Bear"

A wonderful piece of British engineering that was saved from scrap by Alan Peglar. If it was not for him we would not have her now. Two other Millionaires helped save her too and the one thing they all had (Apart from their love of the Engine) was the Number 4472 and that is how I will always remember her and I am sure that Sir Nigel Geasley must be turning in his grave seeing one of his great engines sitting in the British Railway Museum wearing the Number 60103 and painted in BR Green. The Flying Scotsman spent more time under LNER than it did in BR. Repaint her and change back the number and the Red Nameplates. Then she will be even more a part of the Pride of the Nation. Martin. (Thailand)

The A1s weren’t the first pacifics. The Pennsylvania railroad in America was as far as I know the earliest railroad to use pacifics which were known as the K4s.

Curious that even when lightly used the steamer requires so much costly maintenance. How was it economical to run 90 years ago?

Gordon and Flying Scotsman from Thomas and Friends are both based on the Flying Scotsman Locomotive. I'm pretty sure the Bulleid Pacifics and the A4 Mallard are bigger, just saying. The City Class was the first to go 100mph though. The Flying Scotsman is a piece of history that bridges the past, present, and future together almost as if they're one in the same and although the Flying Scotsman isn't the only locomotive to do that, it is one of the most famous to do so.

Meanwhile On The North Western Railway... Gordon: Pathetic!

this doco was good but no mention of it's successful Australian visit ...major oversight given it's farthest distance it ever went from Great Britain and it also broke it's own record I believe of non stop travel at the time ...

glad that she visited the United States, of course I was born in 1976, so I was two years late to see her in person, maybe one day in the future she will return to the U.S. with proper support from her current owners: the NATIONAL RAILWAY MUSEUM

My mum's grandad drove the Cornish Riviera, not Scotsman, which I suppose is a B-Train then (get it ?get it ?)

Currently working towards making a american flyer pacific look exactly like this train. I have two other trains I put with this train. 611 from Norfolk & western and 5445 nyc. 5445 will not run again. 611 will. I have stream liner going to be a 611. Just need help.

While i like FS,what i hate about him is that he was the only A1\A3 to be saved! There were other A1s/A3s that had as much as importance as Scotsman,like 4470 Great Northern and 2750 Papyrus!

I agree

Being paid to photograph trains being assembled. Now that is a job I can only dream of now.

It was not the first steam loco to achieve 100mph. GWR's City of Truro got that distinction in 1904

At her height of fame she was queen

these people who keep talking about "all that is great about British engineering" never seemed to have had much to do with owning or repairing/servicing a long list of British cars I could reel off...

Does exist the 2. Tender ?

A 3 cylinder!

I love Scotsman Black

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shame all his brothers were scrapped say for one

What happened to her water tender? Why did they get rid of it?

HOGWARTS EXPRESS

It's a shame they keep referring to her from 1923, She wasn't named 'Flying Scotsman' till 1924, just prior to the British Empire Exhibition. So, in 2024, she will be 100 years old as the 'Flying Scotsman'

Where is she today 2020

The British always ha a kind of incestuous love affair with their train, due to the lack of true cross-border international trains. Being an islang, going abroad always meant you had to go by boat to reach the other shore, whereas on continental Europe, you could stay onboard your train. Flying Scotsman, while still a marvelous engine, was nothing really special when compared to European competitors from France and Germany. From a pure technical point of view, Flying Scotsman was a great marketing gag, nothing more. The comments in this video are way off, born out of ignorance! Flying Scotsman was not the fastest steam engine in the world. The 100mph mark was reached and surpassed years early by the GWR "City of Truro" and others in the US, France and Germany. By 1932, Deutsche Reichsbahn started the "Flying Trains" services to and from Berlin, employing Diesel railcars which exceeded 100mph on a scheduled basis.

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It’s a locomotive not a train

LNER: we have the fastest steam locomotive in the world GWR: and we have our own LNER: ah your garbage toy City of Truro🤣

13 and 14 isn't to young to work!!!! Thats why are children are soft. They don't even cut the grass

Ladies and gentlemen presenting The flying Scotsman he can't fly and he's not Scottish(well i mean Scotland is next to England)

Amazing, all that nationalism and all those white men.... I'm surprised YT hasn't taken this down for hate speaech.