@@Rocker-1234 it would be worth it to spend millions of dollars saving this historic much loved steam locomotive for sure! Yes three different millionaires who rescued the Scotsman but it has been well worth it those three different millionaires kept her alive for millions of people to enjoy her
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.💕😂😂💕
Behary Sudheer Well, Yes I do. My mum used to moan and groan about me smelling like a bon fire. I was atboy, the only girl watching the trains. I would feel quite dizzy and disoriented after a train went by. I
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!!
they are actually thinking about rebuilding it back into its original A1 build externally. replacing the double chimney, and removing the Banjo dome to make it look like its original A1 build, and repainting it back into its 4472 LNER livery
@@HeavyTanker-vx4oq they should restore It to the pegler era they only need to remove the smoke deflectors and the double chimenie, and maybe they could attach the auxiliary water tender
@@harrymu148 Flying Scotsman: Oh Hello Gordon. Thomas: Do You 2 Know Eachother? Gordon: Yes Thomas We Know Eachother, This Is My Brother They Call Him The Flying Scotsman. Flying Scotsman: Indeed They Do. It Almost Makes Me Sound Famous Doesn't It?
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
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
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.
@@elainelethborg2550 when the Scotsman entered the national collection receive the most extensive heavy overhaul it has ever had when it entered the national collection it was warned out! When it ends the national collection it ran a year before the heavy overhaul
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.
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.
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!
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 TH-cam. It is entitled LNER FLYING SCOTSMAN 4472 ON ITS AUSTRALIAN TOUR 1988. Graham Wilcox
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.
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.
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
For the flying Scotsman to return to US for a tour will take something huge for it to do that now I know she was in the US in the 70s and I know she ran through Milwaukee at that point and stopped at the national Railway Museum in Green Bay unfortunately I was born in 1986 so I missed her!
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!
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...
War time black is a hell of a lot better than the Brunswick green that she is in now! What the hell are they thinking when they decided to put her bag in Brunswick Green?
same thing i was wondering.... they said "oh its hard to run her in brittian cause all the water stations have been removed" likie... why the hell did yall get rid of the very thing that made her run non stop for 8 hours
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'
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.
This is history and as it should be presented. Britain was primarily Caucasian back then so everyone involved on all levels was white. Get over it already!!!!
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!
Good point! That should have been on her resume!
@@nightlightabcd Yes!...I also saw her in Melbourne...and have the Hornby model produced for that occasion !
@@tonyrobb8815 I saw him, to be correct, when he was at Spencer Street. Him? As I have said before, his name is Scots MAN!
@@elainelethborg2550 locos are c alled she
@@HokkaidoCEngineGalaxyExpressTh Not when the locomotive in question is named Scott. And that IS his name!!!!
"It was rescued three times by three different millionaires". Damn, that's how priceless and of great value she was.
And a great way to become an X millionare !!
@@arkhsm and 1000% worth losing millionaire status to save arguably one of the most influential steamers in history
@@Rocker-1234 it would be worth it to spend millions of dollars saving this historic much loved steam locomotive for sure! Yes three different millionaires who rescued the Scotsman but it has been well worth it those three different millionaires kept her alive for millions of people to enjoy her
@@rudycarlson8245 ain't that the truth. They saved her from becoming just another inoperable museum piece or worse, melted scrap metal.
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.💕😂😂💕
Don't you miss those days..😁
Behary Sudheer Well, Yes I do. My mum used to moan and groan about me smelling like a bon fire. I was atboy, the only girl watching the trains. I would feel quite dizzy and disoriented after a train went by. I
I remember watching this years ago on another TH-cam channel. It was my first real British Railways related documentary. Thanks for uploading this!
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 highly request the NRM should paint Flying scotsman back to its Lner apple green livery on its 100th birthday
Yes 🙌🏼
I believe it has been painted the original green as of a documentary in 2006.
they are actually thinking about rebuilding it back into its original A1 build externally. replacing the double chimney, and removing the Banjo dome to make it look like its original A1 build, and repainting it back into its 4472 LNER livery
@@HeavyTanker-vx4oq Where’d you hear that?
@@HeavyTanker-vx4oq they should restore It to the pegler era they only need to remove the smoke deflectors and the double chimenie, and maybe they could attach the auxiliary water tender
I remember that Flying Scotsman is actually Gordon's brother. Flying Scotsman express coming through.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤤
oh my I'd nearly forgotten about the series
@@harrymu148 Flying Scotsman: Oh Hello Gordon.
Thomas: Do You 2 Know Eachother?
Gordon: Yes Thomas We Know Eachother, This Is My Brother They Call Him The Flying Scotsman.
Flying Scotsman: Indeed They Do. It Almost Makes Me Sound Famous Doesn't It?
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
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
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
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.
I'm watching this in 2022. The date is February 24. Happy 99th anniversary to the truest legend of steam there ever was!!!!
Flying scotsman will be 100 years old in the next 2 years as of October 13th 2019
He made his first run ever on February 24th 1923. That's his birthday. It's now May 2021. He's 98 now. Who'd believe it? He looks like a kid!!!!
@@elainelethborg2550 when the Scotsman entered the national collection receive the most extensive heavy overhaul it has ever had when it entered the national collection it was warned out! When it ends the national collection it ran a year before the heavy overhaul
Scotland bagpipe players in kilts, really fits in The Flying Scotsman's name.👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼
Reminds me of 4014 the steam engine restored to running condition in the United States. Both excellent restorations!
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.
Don’t forget longest nonstop run by steam locomotives
Not sure if he’s still steaming today, but The Flying Scotsman is an absolute legend.
Thank you for an excellent presentation. 🚂🚂🚂
I think scotsman deserves her LNER paint back
Yeah! I firmly agree. It's almost his 100th birthday, Hope The NRM would agree to do that
Muel 2 YES!
no god
It looks much more elegant than her current Brunswick Green, that’s a bit too dull for my taste
i think Scotsman looks a lot better with just the single chimney
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.
Eh, economic depression isn't the best time to preserve stuff.
@@Jiskpirate Yes, I know..
@@Raul1971xxx also, a ship that size... Man, if you already look wat trouble the Queen Mary's in.
@@Jiskpirate Aha..
A new and lethal competitor.......
... the Morris Minor.
I nearly laughed my head off when it showed a picture of a Morris minor
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!
There is just one other steam locomotive that matches the fame of The Flying Scotsman, The Union Pacific "Big Boy".
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 TH-cam. 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
In 2021,the Flying Scotsman is Now 98 years Old. He's Practically a Grandpa Engine Now!
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"
didnt the pennsy K4s came first with the pacific wheel?
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)
Just want to able to see this train
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.
Estas locomotivas sempre foram maravilhosas!!! (Steam Locomotive were wonderfujll - F o r e v e r ....) Sou Brasileiro e tenho inveja de Vocês.
Wow! I had no idea the Flying Scotsman came to the US and toured the country.
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.
Muchas Gracias!✌
Curious that even when lightly used the steamer requires so much costly maintenance. How was it economical to run 90 years ago?
it was cheper to run
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 ...
I realy like steam locomotives
Yeah
Who doesn’t?
@@michaelmurray7199 Environmentalists. I like trains until I go to bed, as I learned when I stayed the night in Sandusky Ohio.
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
For the flying Scotsman to return to US for a tour will take something huge for it to do that now I know she was in the US in the 70s and I know she ran through Milwaukee at that point and stopped at the national Railway Museum in Green Bay unfortunately I was born in 1986 so I missed her!
Meanwhile On The North Western Railway...
Gordon: Pathetic!
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!
Well i mean if people had the money to save them they couldve
At least the a1 tornando exists
My mum's grandad drove the Cornish Riviera, not Scotsman, which I suppose is a B-Train then (get it ?get it ?)
It was not the first steam loco to achieve 100mph. GWR's City of Truro got that distinction in 1904
Wrong! Scotsman was!
@@rudycarlson8245 Oh yeah? Which year?
@@williamorchard3890 November 30, 1934
@@rudycarlson8245 30 years later
@@williamorchard3890 flying Scotsman did it first! It was documented!
Being paid to photograph trains being assembled. Now that is a job I can only dream of now.
I agree
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...
Well, they were good during the steam age, does not translate into cars. British automobiles are known to be quite rubbish.
@@57thorns yep, they are. Even though I started driving on them and have some nostalgia for some of them.
They should've stuck to their own invention. Train reference.
@@57thorns
Rubbish, yourself ! You have no idea what you are talking about...certainly not British cars!
At her height of fame she was queen
I love Scotsman Black
War time black is a hell of a lot better than the Brunswick green that she is in now! What the hell are they thinking when they decided to put her bag in Brunswick Green?
A 3 cylinder!
Does exist the 2. Tender ?
yes it exist but youdont see it much
yes it still exist, now carried with bittern
16:18
shame all his brothers were scrapped say for one
26:32
What happened to her water tender? Why did they get rid of it?
same thing i was wondering.... they said "oh its hard to run her in brittian cause all the water stations have been removed" likie... why the hell did yall get rid of the very thing that made her run non stop for 8 hours
@@Rocker-1234 they ironically gave scots water tender to bittern and it still carried on her overhaul
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'
Strange they refer to the locomotive as 'her'. There's a clue to gender in the name Scotsman
HOGWARTS EXPRESS
That would be No.5972 Olton Hall
@@runawaysmudger7181 I know, but be honest you don't see it?
I guess I didn’t catch it. Which part was it?
Where is she today 2020
The National Railway Museum
👍🇺🇸👶🇬🇧🦅❤️
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.
13 characters: Forza Horizon 4
LNER: we have the fastest steam locomotive in the world
GWR: and we have our own
LNER: ah your garbage toy City of Truro🤣
It’s a locomotive not a train
Yeah a machine on wheel
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.
Wont be long. It'll be classed as 'disturbingly and un-nervingly white'.
@@TheTazzietiger If you're addressing War Horse, you're obviously not up to speed on the direction of diversity these days.
This is history and as it should be presented. Britain was primarily Caucasian back then so everyone involved on all levels was white. Get over it already!!!!