Yes, she holds the recorded for longest non-stop run in 1988/89, but not from London to Scotland, but from Parks to Broken Hill during her year-long trip to Australia
The point of sprung buffers is if you want to be super realistic and use actual screwlink couplings and three link chains to couple wagons together. If you were to have non-sprung buffers and the chains slacked a little the wagons might bump into the buffers of the loco and lock around the buffers of the loco. If you have sprung buffers the wagons will simply bump into the buffers and bounce off because they are sprung loaded.
A truly stunning piece of railway engineering. Enjoying every minute of your vids, Will. I personally am a Hornby fan and this is one of my favourite LNER A3s.
Another super new addition to your fleet! Well every railway modeller has to have a Flying Scotsman! LOL! Sure is a beautiful model! Shame the real one never seems to be in one piece! Would love to see her in service again!
I think this Flying Scotsman is beautiful and I agree with you watching all the connecting rods and valve gear moving is wonderful. I really love steam locomotives and I love the British steam engines.
a great looking train and in black it looks even better. i still use my green one from years ago in my 1st starter pack lol. hornby is getting better and better. once again another great video.
While I don't really care for the scotsman, besides the fact that she came to my home town in the Central West of NSW, Parkes, in 1989. 4472 set the record for the longest run non-stop between Parkes/Goobang Junction and Broken Hill, flying through place name towns such as Ivanhoe and Ootha. She also nearly missed a staff change on this run, at Menindee, but luckily the guard caught the staff in the brake van. This run was acheived not by the second tender or mid rail water troughs of the united kingdom, but with a Australian method. 2 special tanker wagons, known as Gins (no tonics involved either) coupled behind a support coach which in turn was behind the loco, and the water could be pumped freely through into the tender, while not all the water was used, better safe than sorry. Fact: Scotsman was fitted with a lower tone whistle to suit our requirements and air brakes. Loved the video Will, interesting to see her in black, while some of her fame comes from her LNER livery.
Well done will, another informative and very interesting review on arguably the greatest loco ever! (Green will always be the colour for me tho) Just wondering if you could do a general maintenance video for us, oiling and cleaning etc. im sure u do a lot of it with the amount of trains u have? Please keep the videos coming!!!!!
+InterCity82 . Wow, a beautiful model!! The flying Scotsman is still around, amazingly? I have seen it in videos and on a game (MSTS) and...well...she's the most viewed locomotive on the train sim box in the UK I guess, as there are different boxes-Dash 9 in the US, FS in the UK, and a Japanese/Asian train in Asia. I think so, though
The little things around the smokebox are oil pots, they are for topping up and feeding oil the where its needed, for example the motion. Great vid, Will!
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Flying Scotsman was built as a Gresley A1 in 1923 and remained unamed until 1924 just before the Wembley Exposition. The service "Flying Scotsman" wasn't officially named that until 1927 but can be traced back to the 1800's. The Flying Scotsman (locomotive) was numbered through its life 1472, 4472, 502, 103, 60163 and back to 4472 (when preserved) and was fitted with a larger non corridor tend (identical to Mallard's and Dwight D. Eisenhower's) in 1936 or 1937, rebuilt to A3 specs and fitted with the banjo dome in 1947, renumbered to 502 then 103 in 1946, and fitted with the double chimney after the creation of British Railways and fitted with the smoke lifters later on to solve the issue of drifting smoke obscuring the view forward from the cab caused the the previously mentioned double chimney. And under British Railways ownership was used in occasional express goods train use.
That was an Awesome Flying Scotsman video I can't wait too see a video of the Flying scotsman 60103 in British Railways Brunswick Green with Sound Someday
I'm halfway through building an LNER pacific (an A2/2) in 7 1/4" gauge, and will most likely do it in this livery on completion (apart from the bufferbeams no fiddly lining to do!)
Great review, I use blu tax for the smoke deflectors, also mine pulls a nice long 8 coach rake of bachmann MK1s up evergreen bank without no slip, stunning loco mine is running this week for the Xmas train
The Flying scotsman can pull some Teak LNER coaches. Hornby do make several variants of them. I think you should review them, and have either, one of your A4s, This one, or your peppercorn model.
she wasnt done that way for Railfest, the Scotsman weekend the previous year she was revealed. and with no smoke deflectors! the smoke deflectors that were on her at railfest i felt spoilt the image. but each to their own. she did look absolutley stunning on both occations. but at the scotsman weekend she was all together.
Thats beautiful that, even though Im not the biggest fan of the Scotsman that really is something! great review Will. Those gold boxes are oiling points. The real thing the paintwork was done by Heritage Painting from Bury, Manchester. Its being overhauled by one of the best railway mechanical engineers in modern day Ian Riley who owns Black 5s 44871 & 45407 both based on the East Lancs Railway when not on the mainline.
I got the Hornby Railways Flying Scotsman when I was a kid and because I will be getting a new layout soon, I decided to get a new model of the Flying Scotsman and what better model then the NRM exclusive. I got her in LNER apple green livery because I like her in that livery. Your model looks good too don't get me wrong, but I think the Flying Scotsman is better in green.
I have a Flying Scotsman. But it dosn't work, mainly because it is by Tri-ang and is very old. However, I hope to get the new hornby train set on it very soon.
great review, superb loco, I wasn't able to get to railfest..... but I did see her for the first time at the NRM in the work shops surprisingly her tender was still sporting the wartime black..... hope to see her on the mainline sometime though :D:D:D:D edit: about the City of Truro, being a western fan i think that did 100 first...................... :P
Brilliant video. I didn't see any Flying Scotsman models when I went to Railfest, and I went 3 days into the event. I can only assume that they had already sold out by then. Regarding rolling stock, since the model is depicted in her current guise, perhaps she could get away with hauling some maroon BR mark 1's? Alot of rail-tours still use these IIRC.
I'd like to see Hornby do an A1/A3 in an authentic wartime black rather than 4472/103 in her museum condition. This model is an A3 but Flying Scotsman wasn't even converted to A3 specification until 1947. These Hornby A1/A3s are really nice. I have 4475 Flying Fox and though she did get some valve gear damage I got her running properly again. BTW check out www.lner.info/index.shtml for any LNER loco info.
Another brilliant Review you have done in the IC82 Series 4 Review Series InterCity82 .. Well done. I loved this Locomotive. Covered in detail and looked so smart in this NE Black Livery. I think though you still need to get a Hornby RailRoad LNER 4-6-2 'Flying Scotsman' A1 Class Locomotive in LNER Apple Green Livery too. I think for your first Flying Scotsman in your fleet to get this one was not a bad choice, but choice I personally would not get for my first Flying Scotsman Locomotive. Even if you get theHornby RailRoad LNER 4-6-2 'Flying Scotsman' A1 Class Locomotive in LNER Apple Green Livery will be fine, but I am sure it will not have as much detail as this one, but still have stuff like separate handrails, sprung buffers, etc. Still you cannot rate this Locomotive down for not being in LNER Apple Green Livery. Also it would be a good idea to get x3 Hornby RailRoad R 4332 LNER Teak Composite Coach and x1 Hornby RailRoad R 4333 LNER Teak Brake Coach to go with both Flying Scotsman's (That's if you get the Hornby RailRoad LNER 4-6-2 'Flying Scotsman' A1 Class Locomotive in LNER Apple Green Livery).
Great review for a great model! I personally recommend not changing the trailing wheels under the cab - the real "Flying Scotsman" features a cartazzi axle which is flangeless.
what you need to do on the tender coupling is change it to a knuckle coupler as that is what they had on the tender rear of the corridor tenders with the gresley a1, a3 & a4's
Regarding the smoke deflector installation, usually the manufacturer will have indentations on the inside of the body shell that you have to drill out, from the inside, should you so choose. I say this regarding HO scale, North American models, but China is China, so that's probably what Hornby would do if they are made in China. I've never had a OO or Hornby, so we can only hope.
I have the Brown Jack version, in BR green, which is one of the nicest looking locos ever. I wouldn't mind this one though. The black livery looks so Darth Vader.
Will I think you'll find the record run in the late 1980's was not done in the UK from London to Scotland but indeed from Melbourne to alias springs in Australia.
I went to the NRM in 2004 aged 5, in the hope to see it in steam. instead I saw some frames with the nameplate on it. skip 10 years... In July 2013 now aged 15 I went back to the NRM only to see the Scotsman still partially in bits with a class 20 in front of it. But it is a great Model
Will, during WWII Flying Scotsman, along with some of the fleet that wasn't put in storage (A4 Pacifics) regularly were seen on freight to aid the war effort
The story behind the naming of Flying Scotsman is quite complicated. In 1924 There were 5 A-3s completed. The British Empire Exhibition At Wembley in 1924-1925 Wanted engines from The Big Four companys. The GWR Sent a castle and the LNER sent 4472. But they decided to name it before sending it. And so No.4472 FlyingScotsman was named :P
and the story behind the corridor tender is weird but here it is... Gresley had to think of a way for a driver and fireman to get between the coaches and the train and to do that he arranged a few chairs (in his dining room) and crawled through them , as he was crawling through one of hid daughters walked in the door , his daughter was really confused so she called the men in white coats but luckily they where delayed. thats the story of the corridor tender ,its kinda funny if you think about it
Did you ever get the smoke deflectors on? If so, How did you do it in the end? I'm thinking of getting this or waiting for the apple green version to be released that is currently on the website
I would have thought the double chimney would have eliminated the need for smoke deflectors. It seems to me as though someone has adopted the 'belt and braces' scheme! Basically, lose the deflectors..... it was found that they were ineffective in any event and were subsequently removed. That aside, the public were appalled at the rather continental appearance and public opinion won out, I think. (Don't quote me).
Yep the first steam locomotive to run at 100 mph and kept the travel time from London to Edinburgh to under 8 hours and then the Deltic aka Class 55 would reduce that to 6 hrs
You got the naming part wrong. After the first three were built, only two were given names while the 'unnamed' one was being photographed. Before it was put in to regular service on the Flying Scotsman route, some exhibition in London asked the LNER if they could display one of the A3's there. The LNER wan't to not only promote their new 'super locomotive', but also the Flying Scotsman service, hence they named the loco Flying Scotsman to advertise both in one. It stayed there for two year before it went onto the mainline.
I like to take tiny chains and hook up the cars together like my fad did on thoose tiny hook that arent on the coupler it toe brings off the reality to me I like seeing the buffer go in and out thats what she said when they bump into each other slightly realy realistic
Nice video will just one question for you I aware the flying Scotsmen was double tendered cause of the long distences between coal and water depos but anyway still great video of THE FLYING SCOTSMEN
I really find it strange that the smoke deflectors came without instructions. My guess is that Hornby had to have the modelers use their own devices and wits on how they're going to be fitted like in the box artwork. All in all, a brilliant model of the Flying Scotsman in wartime black. I think the other models before it might trump it in detail and performance as well as the box artwork and what they each came with but that's just me. In my own opinion, I think the best condition that I've seen from the models was with the double tenders but during it's tours in the US. Man, I wish I was around when it was on it's US excursions, it really is a much more magnificent machine than meets the eye.
Oh, by the way, did you happen to hear about the A1 Tornado Steam Loco Trust being asked to build a new Gresley P2 Mikado? It's probably going to be amazing since it was never seen before in over 60 years after the original locos were rebuilt due to Greslsy's design never developed to it's fullest.
Yes, she holds the recorded for longest non-stop run in 1988/89, but not from London to Scotland, but from Parks to Broken Hill during her year-long trip to Australia
The point of sprung buffers is if you want to be super realistic and use actual screwlink couplings and three link chains to couple wagons together. If you were to have non-sprung buffers and the chains slacked a little the wagons might bump into the buffers of the loco and lock around the buffers of the loco. If you have sprung buffers the wagons will simply bump into the buffers and bounce off because they are sprung loaded.
I never knew what the point of sprung buffers was before hearing something like what you said. Strange XD
A truly stunning piece of railway engineering.
Enjoying every minute of your vids, Will.
I personally am a Hornby fan and this is one of my favourite LNER A3s.
Ive got no desire for the flying scotsman, but thats one of the nicest models ive ever seen.
Can't beat seeing the Flying Scotsman hauling Pullman coaches
Wow I really would like that. one of the best reviews you have ever done finally the flying Scotsman love it.
Another super new addition to your fleet! Well every railway modeller has to have a Flying Scotsman! LOL! Sure is a beautiful model! Shame the real one never seems to be in one piece! Would love to see her in service again!
I don't have one... but I am looking at getting one in the LNER Apple Green.
I think this Flying Scotsman is beautiful and I agree with you watching all the connecting rods and valve gear moving is wonderful. I really love steam locomotives and I love the British steam engines.
Same
You are Sooo patient like you even read the instructions I wish I was like you
a great looking train and in black it looks even better. i still use my green one from years ago in my 1st starter pack lol. hornby is getting better and better. once again another great video.
While I don't really care for the scotsman, besides the fact that she came to my home town in the Central West of NSW, Parkes, in 1989. 4472 set the record for the longest run non-stop between Parkes/Goobang Junction and Broken Hill, flying through place name towns such as Ivanhoe and Ootha. She also nearly missed a staff change on this run, at Menindee, but luckily the guard caught the staff in the brake van.
This run was acheived not by the second tender or mid rail water troughs of the united kingdom, but with a Australian method. 2 special tanker wagons, known as Gins (no tonics involved either) coupled behind a support coach which in turn was behind the loco, and the water could be pumped freely through into the tender, while not all the water was used, better safe than sorry.
Fact: Scotsman was fitted with a lower tone whistle to suit our requirements and air brakes.
Loved the video Will, interesting to see her in black, while some of her fame comes from her LNER livery.
Wow the Flying Scotsman looks so much nicer in black than in green!
I think so too! But it's a personal thing, of course.
Nice vid! Hornby's Flying Scotsman is my only British model train.
Cannot wait to see the upstairs layout someday!
I believe you need to remove the 4 handrail pillars on the sides of the smokebox(two on either side) and refit the smoke deflectors in their place.
I did the same one some time ago, absolutely love this model. Even better on DCC too!
NRM Flying Scotsman Wartime Black Review
Well done will, another informative and very interesting review on arguably the greatest loco ever! (Green will always be the colour for me tho)
Just wondering if you could do a general maintenance video for us, oiling and cleaning etc. im sure u do a lot of it with the amount of trains u have?
Please keep the videos coming!!!!!
Excellent Will! Awesome review of this amazing loco! Liked & faved :)
+InterCity82 . Wow, a beautiful model!! The flying Scotsman is still around, amazingly? I have seen it in videos and on a game (MSTS) and...well...she's the most viewed locomotive on the train sim box in the UK I guess, as there are different boxes-Dash 9 in the US, FS in the UK, and a Japanese/Asian train in Asia. I think so, though
The Flying Scotsman is amazing.
I don't blame you about liking steam locomotives I am a fan my self.
The little things around the smokebox are oil pots, they are for topping up and feeding oil the where its needed, for example the motion. Great vid, Will!
Ahhh right! Thanks for the comment!
Not a problem.
Finally I've been waiting for this video for years
lol well enjoy!
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Fantastic vid again will, please keep more coming
Very nice, a lovely livery! Cheers, Jack
I like Flying Scotsman in Apple green but the wartime black looks like it shows off the detail better
nice one matie, it will do half that slow speed with a deacent current dumping controller , them hornby ones ohhhh . great vids mate
Flying Scotsman was built as a Gresley A1 in 1923 and remained unamed until 1924 just before the Wembley Exposition. The service "Flying Scotsman" wasn't officially named that until 1927 but can be traced back to the 1800's. The Flying Scotsman (locomotive) was numbered through its life 1472, 4472, 502, 103, 60163 and back to 4472 (when preserved) and was fitted with a larger non corridor tend (identical to Mallard's and Dwight D. Eisenhower's) in 1936 or 1937, rebuilt to A3 specs and fitted with the banjo dome in 1947, renumbered to 502 then 103 in 1946, and fitted with the double chimney after the creation of British Railways and fitted with the smoke lifters later on to solve the issue of drifting smoke obscuring the view forward from the cab caused the the previously mentioned double chimney. And under British Railways ownership was used in occasional express goods train use.
IC82 the Flying Scotsman looks great in Wartime black and pulling the Pullman coaches.
That was an Awesome Flying Scotsman video I can't wait too see a video of the Flying scotsman 60103 in British Railways Brunswick Green with Sound Someday
I'm halfway through building an LNER pacific (an A2/2) in 7 1/4" gauge, and will most likely do it in this livery on completion (apart from the bufferbeams no fiddly lining to do!)
I would definitively get her DCC fitted if I were you, such a beautiful model to leave DC :P
Great review, I use blu tax for the smoke deflectors, also mine pulls a nice long 8 coach rake of bachmann MK1s up evergreen bank without no slip, stunning loco mine is running this week for the Xmas train
Just awesome. Well done.
The Flying scotsman can pull some Teak LNER coaches. Hornby do make several variants of them. I think you should review them, and have either, one of your A4s, This one, or your peppercorn model.
Glad someone else understands the satisfaction of watching a steamer's valve gear moving. Not a lot of diesels have siderods... at all...
I absolutely LOVE the black wartime livery
she wasnt done that way for Railfest, the Scotsman weekend the previous year she was revealed. and with no smoke deflectors! the smoke deflectors that were on her at railfest i felt spoilt the image. but each to their own. she did look absolutley stunning on both occations. but at the scotsman weekend she was all together.
I'd love to get an Hornby A3, but like you have been avoiding the Scotsman for much the same for the same reasons. Great review mate
Thats beautiful that, even though Im not the biggest fan of the Scotsman that really is something! great review Will. Those gold boxes are oiling points. The real thing the paintwork was done by Heritage Painting from Bury, Manchester. Its being overhauled by one of the best railway mechanical engineers in modern day Ian Riley who owns Black 5s 44871 & 45407 both based on the East Lancs Railway when not on the mainline.
I got the Hornby Railways Flying Scotsman when I was a kid and because I will be getting a new layout soon, I decided to get a new model of the Flying Scotsman and what better model then the NRM exclusive. I got her in LNER apple green livery because I like her in that livery. Your model looks good too don't get me wrong, but I think the Flying Scotsman is better in green.
I have a Flying Scotsman. But it dosn't work, mainly because it is by Tri-ang and is very old. However, I hope to get the new hornby train set on it very soon.
great review, superb loco, I wasn't able to get to railfest..... but I did see her for the first time at the NRM in the work shops surprisingly her tender was still sporting the wartime black..... hope to see her on the mainline sometime though :D:D:D:D
edit: about the City of Truro, being a western fan i think that did 100 first...................... :P
Great review and nice locomotive mate
Thanks Ian!
this is the actual livery that Flying Scotsman will be painted in when her repairs are done at the NRM at York.
Personally, it's my favourite.
InterCity82 . I take it cause it reminds you of the Black 5s & 8Fs?
Brilliant video. I didn't see any Flying Scotsman models when I went to Railfest, and I went 3 days into the event. I can only assume that they had already sold out by then. Regarding rolling stock, since the model is depicted in her current guise, perhaps she could get away with hauling some maroon BR mark 1's? Alot of rail-tours still use these IIRC.
I'd like to see Hornby do an A1/A3 in an authentic wartime black rather than 4472/103 in her museum condition. This model is an A3 but Flying Scotsman wasn't even converted to A3 specification until 1947.
These Hornby A1/A3s are really nice. I have 4475 Flying Fox and though she did get some valve gear damage I got her running properly again.
BTW check out www.lner.info/index.shtml for any LNER loco info.
Conor O'Hagan the flying Scotsman was built in 1923 and he was named after the Flying Scotsman train service he ran on
The sprung buffers can look great if you drive the train into rail end buffers.
She broke the non-stop record in 1928 from London to Edinburgh and the end broke the record again in the eighties on her Australian tour
Great review as always :) Although the Flying Scotsman actually ran the longest non-stop journey in Australia.
Well, she holds the record for running in the UK too then.
InterCity82 no, thats when before the railway were Nationalize
InterCity82
Great video I've got 3 flying Scotsman 1 is a special nrm model
nice!!! flying scotsman very fast!!! 100MPH!!
good video!!!
Hey IC82 Flying Scotsman stars in the in Thomas & friends movie the great race.
Another brilliant Review you have done in the IC82 Series 4 Review Series InterCity82 .. Well done. I loved this Locomotive. Covered in detail and looked so smart in this NE Black Livery. I think though you still need to get a Hornby RailRoad LNER 4-6-2 'Flying Scotsman' A1 Class Locomotive in LNER Apple Green Livery too. I think for your first Flying Scotsman in your fleet to get this one was not a bad choice, but choice I personally would not get for my first Flying Scotsman Locomotive. Even if you get theHornby RailRoad LNER 4-6-2 'Flying Scotsman' A1 Class Locomotive in LNER Apple Green Livery will be fine, but I am sure it will not have as much detail as this one, but still have stuff like separate handrails, sprung buffers, etc. Still you cannot rate this Locomotive down for not being in LNER Apple Green Livery. Also it would be a good idea to get x3 Hornby RailRoad R 4332 LNER Teak Composite Coach and x1 Hornby RailRoad R 4333 LNER Teak Brake Coach to go with both Flying Scotsman's (That's if you get the Hornby RailRoad LNER 4-6-2 'Flying Scotsman' A1 Class Locomotive in LNER Apple Green Livery).
lol thanks for the comment!
That's OK InterCity82 .
The point of sprung buffers is: if you hit a coach or a truck too hard it will cushion the impact a bit
Great review for a great model! I personally recommend not changing the trailing wheels under the cab - the real "Flying Scotsman" features a cartazzi axle which is flangeless.
Great looking model
Isn't she just!
Btw the gold detail around the smokebox is oiling pots for the inside cylinder motionwork
Oh right! Thanks for that.
what you need to do on the tender coupling is change it to a knuckle coupler as that is what they had on the tender rear of the corridor tenders with the gresley a1, a3 & a4's
The little brass fittings on the running boards are lubrication points.
I went to the SVR event but I prefer staying at home and controlling my very own layout and flying scotsman
Those orange boxes you mentioned at the front of the loco are part of the lubrication system.
Thanks for that!
Regarding the smoke deflector installation, usually the manufacturer will have indentations on the inside of the body shell that you have to drill out, from the inside, should you so choose. I say this regarding HO scale, North American models, but China is China, so that's probably what Hornby would do if they are made in China. I've never had a OO or Hornby, so we can only hope.
I have the Brown Jack version, in BR green, which is one of the nicest looking locos ever.
I wouldn't mind this one though. The black livery looks so Darth Vader.
ive also got a review of both the 2011 scotsman models on my page
The model Is stuning
Will I think you'll find the record run in the late 1980's was not done in the UK from London to Scotland but indeed from Melbourne to alias springs in Australia.
Very nice will hope you have a grand Christmas :-)
thank you! You have a great Christmas too!
+InterCity82 you've got loads of trains and we've got CR(colodien belle), LMS, intercity, mallard ,little giant and a virgin voyager (all horby 00 gauge ). (just saying your epic :-) )
Can't believe he's STILL being overhauled IRL.
Oh and also is there anything on the smoke deflectors on hornby's website or on a forum/website on google?
I went to the NRM in 2004 aged 5, in the hope to see it in steam. instead I saw some frames with the nameplate on it. skip 10 years... In July 2013 now aged 15 I went back to the NRM only to see the Scotsman still partially in bits with a class 20 in front of it. But it is a great Model
take the side rails off and put the smoke deflectors on
hey Will I know you are busy but maby for christmas special could you do a video of the main layout :)
Will, during WWII Flying Scotsman, along with some of the fleet that wasn't put in storage (A4 Pacifics) regularly were seen on freight to aid the war effort
stunning loco wouldn't mind getting one
Hello Will. At what website do i need to visit to view your main layout? Thank you. Oliver.
Great vid as per. Any news on n-gauge project progress?
Are the smoke deflector instructions on the back of the alternative wheel instructions?
Hey there, great review! Is it possible to do close coupling between locomotive and tender and get her to run on a straight line?
The story behind the naming of Flying Scotsman is quite complicated. In 1924 There were 5 A-3s completed. The British Empire Exhibition At Wembley in 1924-1925 Wanted engines from The Big Four companys. The GWR Sent a castle and the LNER sent 4472. But they decided to name it before sending it. And so No.4472 FlyingScotsman was named :P
and the story behind the corridor tender is weird but here it is... Gresley had to think of a way for a driver and fireman to get between the coaches and the train and to do that he arranged a few chairs (in his dining room) and crawled through them , as he was crawling through one of hid daughters walked in the door , his daughter was really confused so she called the men in white coats but luckily they where delayed. thats the story of the corridor tender ,its kinda funny if you think about it
I have the proper LNER green Flying Scotsman set
Did you ever get the smoke deflectors on? If so, How did you do it in the end? I'm thinking of getting this or waiting for the apple green version to be released that is currently on the website
She is the worlds most famous steam engine in the world
I would have thought the double chimney would have eliminated the need for smoke deflectors. It seems to me as though someone has adopted the 'belt and braces' scheme! Basically, lose the deflectors..... it was found that they were ineffective in any event and were subsequently removed. That aside, the public were appalled at the rather continental appearance and public opinion won out, I think. (Don't quote me).
Yep the first steam locomotive to run at 100 mph and kept the travel time from London to Edinburgh to under 8 hours and then the Deltic aka Class 55 would reduce that to 6 hrs
I think it was painted black because it was in the work shop for a later overhaul and is still in there now
Great review, I love my railroad Scotsman, considering you taken the plunge ( like Percy) with Scotsman will you get a mallard?
You got the naming part wrong. After the first three were built, only two were given names while the 'unnamed' one was being photographed. Before it was put in to regular service on the Flying Scotsman route, some exhibition in London asked the LNER if they could display one of the A3's there. The LNER wan't to not only promote their new 'super locomotive', but also the Flying Scotsman service, hence they named the loco Flying Scotsman to advertise both in one. It stayed there for two year before it went onto the mainline.
I like to take tiny chains and hook up the cars together like my fad did on thoose tiny hook that arent on the coupler it toe brings off the reality to me I like seeing the buffer go in and out thats what she said when they bump into each other slightly realy realistic
I'm a six year old and wanted to know how strong is the Flying Scotsman?
also it was named after the express to advertise the LNER express at the 1923 Wembley exhibition
It is the Lner express seen at the Wembley exhibition.
up until 8:37 im like "JUST OPEN THE BOX FOR GOD SAKE"
i think the deflector sort of wedges on over the sides of the smoke box?
It really is a great loco. When do we get to see your proper oo gauge layout?
is on amazon uk?
Nice video will just one question for you I aware the flying Scotsmen was double tendered cause of the long distences between coal and water depos but anyway still great video of THE FLYING SCOTSMEN
I really find it strange that the smoke deflectors came without instructions.
My guess is that Hornby had to have the modelers use their own devices and wits on how they're going to be fitted like in the box artwork. All in all, a brilliant model of the Flying Scotsman in wartime black. I think the other models before it might trump it in detail and performance as well as the box artwork and what they each came with but that's just me.
In my own opinion, I think the best condition that I've seen from the models was with the double tenders but during it's tours in the US. Man, I wish I was around when it was on it's US excursions, it really is a much more magnificent machine than meets the eye.
Oh, by the way, did you happen to hear about the A1 Tornado Steam Loco Trust being asked to build a new Gresley P2 Mikado?
It's probably going to be amazing since it was never seen before in over 60 years after the original locos were rebuilt due to Greslsy's design never developed to it's fullest.
You could run it on an lms layout as it went anywhere as this is what it looked like in the 1940s when the war was on
The LNER is the best railway out of the big 4
i find loco's with large tenders have less cab detail while ones with smaller tenders have a lot more detail
I guess that makes sense in a way
I think the hols for the deflectors are self drilled, not sure though.