BBC Four - The Return of Flying Scotsman
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- BBC Four documentary on the return of Gresley A3 4472/60103 'Flying Scotsman' to service back in 2016.
Flying Scotsman returned to steam back in January 2016 on the East Lancs Railway after a ten year long overhaul. - วิทยาศาสตร์และเทคโนโลยี
I'm an American who's in love with this gorgeous marvel of engineering. I'm a lady in my 70s who grew up with steam trains, and my father worked for the railroads from the time he was 17 until the day he retired. One of the perqs of his job was that his family could travel by train to anywhere in the U.S. for free. (Can you imagine such a thing today?) With a stay-at-home mom and 4 kids, we'd never have otherwise seen the country on Dad's paltry salary. To me, there's nothing as sweet as the memory of those wonderful steam trains, the smell of the carriages and the sound of the engine idling in the station. And we had nothing even close to Flying Scotsman. Oh my, what I wouldn't give to have ridden on that beauty!
The flying Scotsman was re built from scratch when the original plans / blueprint was found in a bin from a house clearance someone did from there the plans was past on and the train was rebuilt to the excact spec as the plans was detailed says how it was built. Without these plans it would never of been rebuilt. It was by chance the original blueprint was found , British engineering at it's best. Can't beat British engineering expertise.
They made a 100% new new 1 from scratch
@@mostbrutalvideos4612 I think you mean A1 Peppercorn 60163 Tornado?
The Union Pacific Big Boy or UP 4014 is a very well know (with steam railroad enthusiasts) steam train that is an American steam icon. You might look up some of the videos of it's recent return to rail service. It's quite a beast.
Jensen Healey I still prefer scotty and tornado, but I can totally agree that big boy, challenger and 844 are beasts
I had almost the same experience. My Father loved steam locomotives and, as children, we were sent up and down the Southeastern coastline so regularly that we thought it was our train. Wonderful memories.
It makes me laugh when they keep saying she fought them every step of the way with her restoration. It's not that she fought them, it's that she was not going to settle for a second rate restoration. A noble old lady such as herself deserves nothing but the best.
Mark Yerkes that’s no lady,
It’s called the Flying ScotsMAN.
@@spartangoku7610 it's a bloody machine who cares
Mark Yerkes lady? There is a man literally in the name tho....
Absolutely and well deserved of the restoration. I missed her when she came out to Australia but when I make a third trip to the UK, I will visit her.
Doomguy I care, it’s one of the most important engines on the railway.
I'm an American, fifth-generation railroader, full of pride in our own UP 4014 "Big Boy" restoration story and celebration. My wife and I enjoyed our honeymoon in the UK and visited your National Rail Museum in York before the "Flying Scotsman" was restored, absolutely wonderful and fascinating exhibits. But this...this production...made my eyes moist. Peerless camera work. A soundtrack that still stirs after the ending. Best of all: the celebrations of the workers, contributors, stewards of her until her coming out again, general public... There is nothing, nothing in the world like the bewitching smell of coal-fired steam. Thank you for this emotional visit.
Modern Man found all the dragons gone, so then made new ones of brass and iron
Just, wow.
The biggest being the big boy and the most noble being the Scotsman
Gordon will be very glad to hear his brother making a return
Might be coy about it to the others like James etc!
Meanwhile on Sodor
Gordon: ‘Knobhead’
gordon be like: oh the indignity
@Robert McGuire 611 in thomas and friends is highly unlikely
@Matthew Barrick "A lot of the people who donated to build me were huge fans of you guys, growing up!"
@@TheBlueShark well it was in fan made Thomas and friends
@@lazy_genuisvalt1607 it would be weird seeing 611 with a face
TH-cam: Flying Scots documentary
Me: procceds to Yeet game controller onto tv and proceeds to watch this masterpiece
Saaaaaaamme
Where you playing forza horizon four?
@@SPG69 no I was playing Minecraft
@@SPG69 Coincidentally I was building kings cross.
CraigTheLej you make a choice playing Minecraft
If only pegler could see her now
As an American citizen I find that this locomotive beautiful power and fast as hell God bless this awesome British icon :) of railway history R.I.P sir William Mcalpine
I do as well.
Roundhouse Warrior you forgot 🇨🇦
in the 70s she visited the US!
Normally I dont like to give the brits a win, but I gotta admitt their locomotives where alot more attractive then our own.
What does your "citizenship" have to do with it?
At 21:04 the pride the man painting takes in painting the Flying Scotsman is incredible! I did not think that sort of pride in your work still existed.
Skilled sign writers are a dying breed. This man obviously up there with the best
They could have put a transfer on there with the number but chose to do it the proper way. Beautiful job.
The scene with the viaduct gave me goosebumps
The glenifinnan viaduct and the Flying Scotsman, to marvels of engineering meeting each other in a blaze of glory.
Being a train lover and and a documentary lover, this is one of a finest and emotional documentary I have ever seen.
Kudos to the work craft..
Kudos to the return of Flying Scotsmen
❤
At 7:00 "Oh, she's beautiful!"
My Dad was in the M.N & took me on his Douglas Dragonfly to King's Cross Station , for a pack of ciggies to the driver & fireman I boarded the footplate of Mallard & was allowed to toot the whistle in about 1956 !
Unless signal failure caused crashes , very safe , no idiots driving the wrong way on motorways !
See what China does with clean burn and gas scrubbers to use coal for power supply, think how anti "We are a grandmother " that would be , our first house bought in my birth village of Tollesbury Essex , she gave us int rates of 16% & deemed it acceptable to dump highly toxic plutonium waste off the Galician coast!
With expert instructions easier to drive than a car on the M25 !
16:45 that is a GORGEOUS shot!
do u know what's that bgm?
Natheniel Becken the people ruin the whole shot though
That is the Ribblehead Viaduct on the Settle to Carlisle line, when the Victorians built Britain's railways they made things of beauty.
@@TexasRailfan2008 the people put scale to the shot lol
I totally agree with you.....what a stunning shot on that viaduct....and with that stirring music playing in the background. Just great!
Hi my name is Phil Holt.i did 50yrs on the footplate at 9b Stockport. On the 19 the of February 1973 fired the flying Scotsmen from Manchester to Darby works Regards.Phil. It looks good now.
I'm from Stockport too I always think about Scotsman going under that viaduct
@Leonard Carr That was 'Mallard'.
50 years huh? And that was almost 50 years ago?
Mr Holt if you are still capable i would vote for you back on the footplate even it was for e few miles. I salute you. You must be the knowledge on how it was done. Dont let this knowledge go to waist mr holt tell your story.
good on ya --------------------------------TOMMY27
"Wanting to catch a glimpse, of the world's favorite engine."
-On Sodor, Thomas "Hold my water."
This is why I love the British, when I see the things they still love. Well done Britannia.
She isn’t the biggest, or the fastest, but she’s the prettiest and most iconic engine to ever grace the rails! I grew up knowing her in her apple green and as 4472, but she’s Scotsman all the same!
Even my parents, who don’t know anything about trains, know who flying Scotsman is. I think that distinguishes this engine from others... She has a personality :D
The Flying Scotsman is one of the best British steam locomotives!
Definitely the most Iconic, Mallard has its place too although it's not in a running state.
And the worlds famous steam locomotive 🚂
Nooo its.... Thomas
What about green arrow the A1 freight train?
you are so right
I am got so emotional while watching this , and literally there are tears in my eyes.. that moment when they were painting specially when the man who was painting the identification number ... and the crowd who just came to see that trains arrival with their kids was soo emotional to me.. I am not from UK and never been travelled in any steam train not from that era too .. but have huge love about machines and their history ... one thing I wanna say to people of England.. "Guys you have set the history, please keep it, and keep it running always ... I am saying it because in my place when I see a old machine getting rust and dust with no shed and spiders on it while everyone us just passing not even giving any attention to look at it or read the plate regarding the machine , or they just came close to capture some fucking selfie, and go away ..it's always make me so angry as well sad because we dont have any knowledge about it.... " I'm in tears really hoping to see this master piece in my life someday , and can touch it..
I also have tears in my eyes Muhammad, very strange. The love and admiration people have for what at first look is a large lump of metal is very moving.
Hands down one of the most beautiful steam locomotives ever built.
This locomotive is even in a video game! Forza Horizon 4! You get to race the Flying Scotsman!
I hate that race because the buggy is useless
@@Fabyu40 ohmyGod ikr?? And then the way the screen shakes when you're close to the engine was just mmhmnfnfbd
The Scotsman is in a lot of video games
Just feel lucky it's not the Mallard the fastest steam locamotive.
Actually, that flying Scotsman doesn't have the side plates. So we're actually racing Gordon.
This documentary made me shed tears of happiness cause Flying Scotsman is part of our british history and the crown jewel in our railways history. I've met her a total of five times in my life and enjoy seeing her when I can. RIP Sir William McAlpine.
Agreed friend
I’m not even British and I nearly cried with joy
I'm surprised yet not surprised that multiple people know Thomas the tank engine. And the books no less. Then again, it's the internet
This is the only time the internet is civilized about a fandom
I'm with you man! As an American I was shedding tears the whole time and didn't even know why! I think it was that something of such great beauty, such majesty, simplicity and great power is a testament to previous generations that came before and how they built things to last beyond their own lives! It's like the past piercing into today as that train barrels down the track saying, "excuse me, I'm hear, I'm doin' ma thang, I ain't dyin' and I ain't lyin'...how you doin'? Oh, and by the way, I'm the king, so please take a bow or get on board cuz I'm punching through!!!"
I'm american and I was tearing up during this. Flying Scotsman truly is remarkable and I wish that america would do something similar with the steam locomotives we have vs letting them sit out in harsh weather all year round.
I am a 'non-flying' Scotsman (!) and remember seeing all the steam engines in all their various liveries. This was well before nationalisation. I'll be 81 this year and have fond memories of travelling by steam. It took 8.5 hours to go from Edinburgh to London in those days; a far cry from under 4 hours today!! The express coach took 11 hours!
Thank you for preserving the Scotsman. If you hadn't we'd have lost all our own great steam locomotives in America. My dad grew up in coal country in Carlisle...Pennsylvania. Love to all you steam rail fans in the UK. Tip of my baseball cap to Sir William.
Rest
In
Peace, Sir William McAlpine.
Yes respect in peace Alan pegler
i was going to add pegler as well rip
A magnificent report about these people and their locomotives. I'm from Romania and I could come to you in the Kingdom because of my service. We lived moments from childhood when we stood on the bridge and watched the locomotives while we were eating donuts, the mixture of steam and smoke was great. I appreciate you as a nation and people because you do not forget history, keep it alive. I go to the Normandy shore where I pay tribute to your Heroes every time I cross the area, do you know why? ... if you were not your courage and the US Army ..... today would have talked German in Europe. Total Respect
It's an amazing thing the emotional experience steam Locomotives drive in the human experience. It's great to see the restoration of these old giants, even in the United States the restoration of Big Boy brought people from all over the globe to see young and old with moistened eyes was quite the exhilarating event to feel the earth rumbling underfoot. I was privileged enough to talk to some great steam fans from Edinburgh, Capetown, Christchurch and others it was absolutely phenomenal.
Saw this Engine long time ago during my time in Britain. Never had the chance to get close or ride it. Thank you to BBC Four for this documentary. It's not the Engine or 10 years of hard work but to me it's the people's emotions around the Flying Scotsman that got tears in my eyes. Thank you for saving this engine.
Very proud to see my Uncle, Ron Smith here at the controls of this beautiful locomotive.
Yeah right
Holypotato2 How old are you, 12?
The Hooded Clar judging from his videos, I'd say he's probably 7-8
@@holypotat0 Dickhead! Go play with your toys.
Guys leave him alone! So what if he’s lying? Don’t pick on a kid! Shame on you! I used to get picked on all the bloody time! You think I liked it? I bet you don’t too!
The engine that will we will never forget. Long live the flying scotsman.
As an American, you Brits know how to build you locomotive with an elegance, and class that we Americans haven't got. And if any engine ever deserved restoration, it would be "The Flying Scotsman", she's the most famous locomotive in the world.
Yep, the difference between British and American engineering: elegance vs size... :-)
Let's not knock the American style. Form grows from function, and N American style answers the demands of the job it does quite as beautifully as Brit style.
My father was a small minority owner of the Flying Scotsman and a fast friend of Alan Pegler. My dad served as brakeman, fireman and engineer from time to time on the US tour. I drove an 18wheeler for the train loaded with coal and, once, with souvenirs sold on the train during its tour stops. Unfortunately the US tour essentially bankrupted Alan and the proud locomotive suffered mightily in Long Beach next to the Queen Mary and ultimately San Francisco until it was rescued once again. It now plies the rails of the UK in a highly modified state with a newer, more power boiler and motive package.
Although my father travelled around the world to travel on trains from Australia to Austria, his favorite memories were of the Flying Scotsman. I still have hundreds of souvenirs remaining from the train's tour. I'm sure I hauled most of them at one time or another.
The greatest engine of all time that ever graced the rails.
No it's not. SP 4449 is the greatest engine of all time that ever graced the rails anywhere!
@@stuartadamsrailfanningvideos I'm a fan of American trains too and to me SP 4449 is the best american locomotive to have graced the rails of america. that's all.
@Kenneth Kyle De Luna got that right.
@@stuartadamsrailfanningvideos You really are a graceless misery, aren't you?
I would argue that it was the New York Central Hudson, perfectly balanced
I want to see big boy and scotsman side by side one day.
Union Pacific posted an update the other day, Big Boy 4014 should be running in a couple of months. th-cam.com/video/Plt6UgVo9x4/w-d-xo.html
It be a great day for steam fans :DD
I love to see the Canadian Pacific Royal Hudson, Santa Fe 3751, Norfolk and Western 611, Southern Pacific 4449, Union Pacific 844, and the Flying Scott's Man all together at once under full steam!
It's hard to imagine how much larger Big Boy is. Even 4449 and 844 are enormous brutes next to anything that fits on UK rails.
But, given how tiny it is, The Scotsman makes some very impressive horsepower at speed. It makes about half as much as Big Boy (~3000 vs ~6000), but it WAY less than half the size. For the job of ripping around at very high speed with relatively light loads, the old LNER Pacifics were very finely honed designs.
@@rogermolina1244 Believe it or not 611 can out run the flying Scotsman along with 4449 and 844 can all outrun the flying Scotsman but it would definitely be cool to see all them all at once
Me and my Grandad went to see The Flying Scotsman in York, this was February 2016. He died July that year. We both saw it completed. He took a photo of me next to The Flying Scotsman, it wasn't a good photo but I cherish it, I look happy in the photo as I know he hasn't taken a good picture but I don't care, he tried.This was his last trip, his last photo. I miss him so much.
It’s crazy Flying Scotsman is now 100 years old now in 2023.
I didn't realise how much smaller this locomotive is compared to some of the giant steam engines that we ran and still do to this day in the US. At 214,000 lbs, it's a lightweight compared to the Union Pacific Challenger 3985 at 627,900lbs that we have for example. (And that's not even including the weight of it's tender.) That's just wild at how much larger the loading gauge is here compared to the UK. But that makes total sense too. The UK is a small country and it probably wouldn't make sense to have such large trains. I love the look of the Flying Scotsman too. I wish I could have been around when it came to the US many years ago for a visit. At least videos like this exist.
I also wish I could have seen Flying Scotsman when the locomotive visited the United States, and Canada during the 1960s. My fascination with Steam locomotives, inspired me to join a Here in the United States, Restoring Maine Central Railroad engine 470 , in Hancock Maine. when she is operational again, I how to be one of her crew. 470 is only one year younger than Flying Scotsman, being Scotsman was in 1923, and 470 was built in 1924. My two favorite Steam locomotives.
Scootaloo. This has been a subject of discussion on several clips, mostly involving 4014. Most people, on both sides of the Atlantic, have no idea of the scale of the difference. The UK loading gauge is one of the smallest of world wide standard gauge, while the USA is the largest. Russia (the old Soviet Union, in fact) is very similar, but I think that is based on their 'broad gauge'. My major point is that UK steam locomotives, while almost tiny in comparison to 844, 3985 and 4014, many had similar or higher power to weight ratios.
4014 is rated at about 6,400hp, while a number of individual UK locos have been measured at nearly 3000hp. One of those is 71000 Duke of Gloucester, a very advanced, three cylinder loco with poppet valves. The 'Duke' is just 13 ft high, 8 ft wide and weighing in (tender included) at just over 156 long tons, while 4014 is 16' 3" high, 11 ft wide and is 558 long tons all up. So the Duke is a fraction of the size, but can pack a whopping 19hp/long ton punch, with 4014 a relatively light 11hp/ton.
@@rogerwhittle2078 But HP is very misleading. A F-350 pickup truck produces more HP then a large Peterbilt semi truck today. Yet a semi can still pull 4x more weight.
Tractive power may be a far better measurement to go by. The Big boy produces over 135,375 Lbs of tractive power.
@@waycoolscootaloo In fact HP is rarely quoted about steam locomotives in Britain, because the output is related to the load and that includes the gradient, the load on the drawbar and the speed differential. I was going to mention that, but it made for too long a post. The Tractive Effort is usually the quoted figure and I just did a quick check. The two locomotives are very similar in their TE/ton, with the 'Duke' coming out slightly ahead at about 256lbs/ton and 4014 at 242lbs/ton.
Again, the UP4000 class were designed to pull 9000 (short?) ton freight trains over Sherman Hill, on their own and at 25mph. The Duke of Gloucester was a prototype passenger 'racer', designed to pull 12 - 13 coach trains at 90 -100mph.
You should google 71000 Duke of Gloucester, because it is a unique story of steam engineering. In short, when first built it was a 'donkey', unloved by its crews and disliked by everyone else. It was supposed to be the most powerful thing on rails, but it was awful. It was shunted and forgotten. It escaped scrapping in the seventies by a fluke, was rescued by enthusiasts who overcome monstrous difficulties to restore it to steam.
Predictably, it was still a donkey. However, the enthusiasts were also experts and they had a plan. A new grate and draughting arrangements, a double blast pipe and detail steam passage changes made it just a little better than its class 7P Britannia cousin. Then came the modification they really wanted to do. They reprofiled the three camshafts that operated the poppet valves.
Suddenly, the Duke was an animal. It famously stormed up Shap Fell at an all time, single loco record average speed of 60mph with 575 tons on, calculated to represent 2,700 hp. The Duke is finally the engine R.A. Riddles wanted it to be.
You've got to hope that Ed Dickens and his team will do what our restorationists do. Spend years lovingly restoring their unique or sole surviving locomotives and then thrash them up Shap Fell or similar, to find out just how powerful they are!
@@rogerwhittle2078 Yeah. I looked up the locomotive. I will read up on it a bit more later this evening when I get home from work.
But also I get 355 lbs of tractive effort for the Big Boy and 345 lbs for the Duke based on the weight to pound ratio.
Not that it matters anyways. Only talking a difference of 10 lb per ton.
I will research that locomotive a little more later though.
6:38 wiser words were never spoken in terms of steam preservation.
@@langsuan123 "what if you replace every part of the ship, will it still be the same ship then?' great philosophic question, and everyone has a different opinion on it.
@@langsuan123 Trigger's Broom
If we want to see great machines like Flying Scotsman actually run, then pieces are going to have to be replaced or refurbished. If you just want to see it sitting static in a museum or whatever then any machine can be kept original.
@@Odin029 Exactly. That's why the Union Pacific has an FEF (#838) in storage as a source of spare parts for #844. If we want Frisco #1522 to run again (which I'd love to see), we need to replace its flue.
The legendary Flying Scottsman. They bought her back to life. A beautiful, emotional documentary 🚂
Back in the 1970s this engine was at Carnforth Locomotives. You could buy a ticket to go about 2 or 3 miles up the track and back but my dad bought a footplate ticket. I was about 8yrs old and I remember it clearly stood next to my dad. Especially the heat from the firebox. I still have those 2 footplate tickets.
I got to ride on her at Swanage railway when I was 4 or 5 years old and then again in 2016 at Salisbury as a birthday treat, then again from Bristol (my hometown) through Britain and Wales in 2017. Seeing her again for real after all these years gave me two feelings. 1. It was like being reunited with an old friend I haven't seen in a long time. 2. Knowing what Flying Scotsman has been through and survived all the odds and is still around for years to come makes me proud to be British. :')
Grand memories indeed, my first career in Doncaster Carr Steam Locomotive sheds, locomotive fireman through the sixties, & yes I fired the Scotsman 4472 & many other steam Locomotives.
You truly where one lucky man. I hope to one day become a part time locomotive fireman. I live in the United States, Maine to be exact. I am part of a group restoring Maine central railroad locomotives 470, to operational status, for use on the Down East Scenic Railroad. In Hancock Maine. I hope to one day be one of 470's fireman.
@@alexfogg236 I wish you luck on your goal to become a fireman, and with 470's restoration. With training, I'm sure you can do it. :)
@@patrickwebb7311 , Thank you Sir. I will do my best.
wanna do it once more mr Bond ?
I teared up multiple times and I'm not even from the UK. She is absolutely gorgeous and a queen of steam. God bless all who bought her and dealt with the headaches; Alan Pegler, Sir William McAlpine, and Dr. Tony Marchington. May you all rest in peace, knowing you helped preserve the pride of a nation.
Even though I am an American, I am in love with the British railway network. I grew up with Thomas, and one day, we took home a compilation of Wilbert Awdry's Railway Series books, and that gave me enough information to really enjoy the history of the British railway network. I am so thankful to the National Railway Museum for purchasing the locomotive almost 20 years ago and finally restoring it. I hope to fly over to the UK over the summer of 2023 (no plans have been made yet, but I'm hoping we make some soon), and hopefully catch a ride behind this marvelous machine as part of its 100th birthday.
Thank you Sir Nigel Gresley, Alan Pegler, William McAlpine, the NRM, all other private owners, and Riley & Sons for bringing and keeping this national treasure alive! Love and kudos, from the other side of the Atlantic.
I cried my eyes out I love the Flying Scotsman
The camera folks did a great job on this video. As well as the editing crew.
God bless Alen Peglar for saving this giant beast of an engine.
A memory machine flying by, what a lovely thought... 🤗
I cried watching this, it evokes so much emotion, I'm so proud of everybody involved in letting it live on. What a fantastic program, thankyou BBC and thanks for sharing HK ;0)
Flying Scotsman: Wait til Gordon gets a load of this
Brandon Wells XD
@@terrier_productions Ya heard of me?
Brandon Wells what?
@@terrier_productions I asked if ya heard if me. I'm pretty much the new Justin Y at this point
Gordon, Henry, or Spencer.
I shed some tears here 😂 it's beautiful! 100 years later is still her.
She’s not 100 years old yet in two years she will be!
the legend still lives on
Damn right the legend lives on! 97 years old and still going strong!
0:39 that man was really about to shed some tears, can’t say I blame him
His one of the flying scottsmans owners. The first one who took Scott to the America's
Rest easy Sir William you will definitely never be forgotten.
Britain has a wonderful train history. This is a magnificent train, and hats off to all who worked on her! GOOD JOB UK! Here in the US Union Pacific put the last remaining "Big Boy" the largest locomotive in the world back on line. You should see THAT!
Come see the world's most famous steam locomotive, the Southern Pacific Daylight GS-4 4-8-4 # 4449 in Portland, Oregon, USA! I will be one of it's crew members!
*world's most beautiful steam locomotive
As James May once said, “long live the Flying Scotsman!!”
Something I appreciate about the British steam restorations is that they don't convert their engines to run on oil like we do in the US. Burning coal takes a more skilled crew and is the true traditional way. And in my opinion, the Flying Scotsman is the most beautiful locomotive in the world. Cheers from the USA.
A 10-year labor of love, commitment, and dedication. Long may this stunning, remarkable Lady rule the rails. Copious tears at the end.
Well done, Everyone.
Fascinating video and certainly a heart thumping reverie. I first saw this beautiful engine sometime in 1954 around when my sister was born and we were visiting London City, then again, I think it was Kings Cross in 1957. As a small boy I remember being thrilled by this giant and had started something that has remained in me. It was later on that I remember so well when two of us young boys were sneaking into a local goods yard through a broken fence deep amongst a huge area of terrible stinging nettles in the UK and then after getting to know the workers in this yard, who turned a blind eye to our presence as long as we stayed near to them, we eventually were having tin mugs full of piping hot strong tea and condensed milk (very different to what I was used to) in their sheds and talking about trains (and stuff) to the tough guys that worked there and after a few weeks we finally watched and sort of helped two guys firing up and then having a short ride up and down on a little shunting train when I was 12 years old, over 63 years ago. That was such a huge thrill, especially when I had my hand on this long lever and was allowed to turn hot valves and hoot the hooter. I can still remember that unique smell of smoke, hot metal, grease and the engine oil and smell of oily steam, coal dust, orangey water and other unique aromas that a 12 year old train fanatic loved. This video brought back memories of that golden time and all the steam engines coming and going that my friend and I used to love to watch and then underline their numbers in special train spotting books. We’d either cycle to all kinds of places, sometimes over 10 miles away, here and there, or take a cheap ticket train journey to distant main London stations for a day and then buy platform tickets so we could talk to the engine drivers and see the big engines up close. When I visited some places in the north with my parents; like Leeds, Scarborough and other cities I got to see other engines of all types and my spotting book(s) were filling up with my number underscores of trains I had spotted. The other memorable and great time I remember besides seeing the Scotsman was when I had been hurtling along in a first class carriage when I was 7 or 8 from London to the north going eventually to Harrowgate with my nanna, which had helped propel the fascination, as I watched the huge engine pulling us. A lovely presentation here to spark those memories.
As someone who has lived in Fort Wayne, Indiana, I have had the pleasure of knowing an original steam icon is operating in my hometown. I know that the US has more steam icons by the day, with Sierra Railway 3, UP 4014, Pere Marquette 1225, and more, but even with my favorite being the Restoration Queen, Nickel Plate 765, the Scotsman is so visually striking I can’t help but find a soft spot in my heart for it.
Crikey, that was very emotional. Well done to all helped with the restoration. You should all be proud of yourselves. I couldn't believe how young some of the lads and lasses were who helped on the job. Also RIP Sir William McAlpine, thanks for saving an icon.
No country on earth, that I can think of, respects and honors their history as much as the British. Good Job!
Russia is a good contender
Its a shame they didn't preserve a capital ship from WWII..
@@barrycarlisle8206 You could argue that HMS Belfast as a cruiser is a capital ship... ish?
Had the joy of watching the flying Scotsman coming straight at me whilst on the Nana Glen bridge during our Bicentenial celebrations.Will never forget it ,no photos but that magnificent machine coming down the valley full head of steam,cattle scattering in the green fields whistle blowing will stay with me till I die.
One of the greatest machines built...
The scene on the viaduct gave me goosebumps...
What a beautiful machine ❤️❤️❤️
Fabulous documentary. Thanks, from this Yank, for such a wonderful looking engine. A most useful engine indeed!
I live in Canada and cannot imagine Canadians having such a reverence for anything historic. I’m from New Zealand where there seemed to be a much greater interest in history!
Ah, you just haven't been looking around Canada! Visit the plethora of national museums in Ottawa, or the great many small local museums - every other town has one.
Built to last with pride by craftspeople and maintained by experts now.
I feel some kind of nostalgia but I never got to see it myself and I am German
I think that it is so famous and that has been all over the world that make me happy seeing this engine to be rebuild and return home
There are things in our history worth preserving. This is one of them. Thank you to everyone involved in doing this work.
MY god. I'm not even brtish, and crying like a baby. Very Happy to see such an amazing engine brought back to life.
That clip of her in green gave me goosebumps. Absolutely gorgeous.
Steam Locomotives should never disappear. 💦💨🚂
Thank you to all the people involved, you did an amazing job! RIP Mr Pegler and Sir William and thank you
Oh my goodness, I love this train. It stopped in San Francisco,California USA in 1973 and it was parked at the Fishermans wharf. I tour the outside and inside from back to front. I drove over 100 miles to see that beauty.
It posed alongside SP 4449 in Portland, Oregon, around that same time!
I was lucky enough to ride behind Flying Scotsman when this wonderful locomotive visited Australia. I still have the ticket dated 3 June 1989.
The intro alone gave me the chills. 5 stars!
I'm a steam nut and am interested in pretty much anything to do with steam locos but here, I really appreciated seeing the signwriter at work. Superb.
this is fantastic seeing the scotsman on the road is a pleasure. my dad and grand dad was the driver from 1928-30 I have a coal piece of it that I love the dearest .
I’m 14 and in my area we normally have 4/5 engines coming past on our line, but over the past 3 years there’s only been a couple. You just can’t help but admire these beautiful pieces of engineering!
My girlfriend and I were privileged to have been on the 2017 tour....
Absolutely nothing like it..
I hope to ride it one day myself. It would be an honor to ride the most famous locomotive in the world.
My girlfriend and I have ridden behind the Southern Pacific Daylight GS-4 4-8-4 # 4449 in Portland, Oregon!
Ran across this video. I was going through some of my dad’s memorabilia and found a couple of moments from his travel with The Flying Scotsman when it toured here in the US in 1969-70. He worked for the CB&Q and was invited to travel with the locomotive for part of the route. He was very knowledgeable of steam locomotives, boilers, mechanics and rail systems.
*legends never die*
How 'emotive' is this? *What a Train!* Fair play to everyone involved who helped 'restore' this Pacific beauty back onto the rails. *3 cheers for The Flying Scotsman!*
Saw her fly last doncaster that day after ten years of not seeing her even to this day I still get far bit emotional fantastic engine she is
Dhsr pass
I would wait on the Doncaster station platform just to see her fly by... Late 1950s
Magnificient, each and every one who worked on the Flier. The perfectly tuned machine deserved the painstaking care bestowed by the craftsmen who painted and done up the appearance. Yet, one can only admire Mike O`Connor at the way he painted the number. I wish I could see the event in person!
My mum my sister and me went up to Cheshire to my nan's on the flying scotsman i was just a kid, but that's we're I started my love for steam, the smell of the steam and coal and the little bits of soot on my white shirt says it all, I'm not sure what train we come back on but it was steam, it was in the 60s love them.
I’m happy Flying Scotsman has lived for so long. In fact, it celebrated its 100th birthday. Happy late birthday Scotsman!
I had the luck to see this go past my house once or twice a year.
I smiled - and cried throughout the entire video. How magnificent a machine!
i wish you best travels scotsman
-Gordon
I remember as a child of the 80,s in Australia that this was the first steam train I had ever seen !!! Its always stuck with me as a fond memory peeking over the farm fence seeing it roar down the 8km side fence of our farm in a tiny new south wales farm
Wait, she was built in 1923? It's 2020? It in 2023?! Her 100th anniversary is so bloody soon!
She was built in 1923 she’s two years shy! Of 100 years old once she turns 100 I think it will be a big deal! I hope for her one hundredth birthday they put back her in LNER apple green! The Brunswick green that she’s in now is absolutely horrible! I am one of her fans here in the USA!
The steam locomotive, one of mankind's most beloved and beautiful machines
My great grandpa operated the Scotsman once in the late 20s . He said he was shocked by the speed of her
I have literally seen this train yesterday in Clapham Junction coming back from a holiday in Edinburgh. And this video comes up today what a coincidence !
"LONG LIVE FLYING SCOTSMAN" "THE LEGEND LIVES ON"
Such a noble, beautiful piece of machinery… it almost makes me wanna cry 😭 seeing the old girl run free on the mainline as she did in the old days. Well done!!! Cheers to all runs to come.
When I was a boy i attended
the Royal High School primary in Edinburgh on the way to school everyday I would cross the Bridge at the top off craigentinny av where I would wait for the flying Scotsman to Roar past on its way to London what a thrill
I was always late for school
This engine is a National Treasure for sure
There's something unique about British Steam that cannot be repeated elsewhere. These locomotives demonstrate the refinement in British engineering. I can only dream of riding on a train of such class and have some of this excellence rub off on me.