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A passenger on a train was knocked unconscious in a collision with the Flying Scotsman last year that also wiped out almost all of the train’s wine cellar. Two passengers “clashed heads ...
Why the Flying Scotsman locomotive crashed in Highlands ... with the collision causing minor damage to its coal tender and damage to ... The Royal Scotsman train's veranda was struck by the ...
In 1928, it hauled the first nonstop run of the northbound Flying Scotsman train service; in 1934 it set the world steam speed record of 100mph (though it was beaten a year later by Papyrus, a ...
A report into the accident concluded that the crash was caused by the 100-year-old steam train reversing with no look-out in place. The Strathspey Railway Company, which runs Aviemore station, was ...
When Flying Scotsman first took to the rails in 1923, the train took eight-and-a-half hours to complete the journey, hauled by a succession of locomotives which were changed en-route like ...
I saw The Flying Scotsman for first time and wasn't prepared for how it made me feel. World's most famous steam train is travelling through Birmingham to Leicester and Cambridge this afternoon, ...
No 4472 was renamed Flying Scotsman in honour, said the LNER PR department, of “the most famous train in the world”. The engine, with its dynamic new name, became the star of the exhibition.
When Flying Scotsman first took to the rails in 1923, the train took eight-and-a-half hours to complete the journey, hauled by a succession of locomotives which were changed en-route like ...