One of the passengers suffered a “brief loss of consciousness” in the September 2023 collision, when the Flying Scotsman shunted the Royal Scotsman’s 10 coaches backwards by two feet.
The Flying Scotsman pulled half a dozen Pullman coaches to Edinburgh when she arrived in 1964. On the footplate was Alan Pegler, the Nottinghamshire businessman who bought the engine from British ...
Why is Flying Scotsman so famous? In 1862, when the East Coast route to Scotland was still young, Walter Leith of the Great Northern Railway had an idea. Why not run a through train from London to ...