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Articles in this issue
Below is a selection of articles in Railway Magazine February 2023.
Scotsman at 100
The cab of Flying Scotsman at the NRM in March 2016, its TOPS number No. 98872 (Class 98 being used for main lineregistered steam locos) just visible above the driver’s cabside window ...
The world’s most famous locomotive… bar none!
IAM always intrigued, slightly irritated even, when I see or hear in the media the phrase “world’s most famous steam locomotive”, for I am yet to discover a diesel or electric that is better known! ...
100 years of history
FLYING Scotsman is a 4-6-2 Pacific locomotive that was completed in February 1923 at Doncaster Works as the third of 51 ‘A1’ locomotives ordered by the Great Northern Railway prior to the ‘Big Four’...
Flying ‘Talisman’
IF you had the chance to select the locomotive and train for a final steamhauled trip from King’s Cross before the arrival of the ‘dreaded diesels’ (as many would have said at the time), what...
A Baker’s dozen
Scotsman began its US tour running from Boston to New York, and is pictured en route at Hartford (Connecticut) on October 12, 1969.
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The People’s Engine
SPARE CHIMNEY PLAYGROUND FIRST PHOTO MAKING MOTHER’S DAY REUNION PLANNED MAKING THE NEWS ALL THE WAY FROM THE USA SCOTSMAN TO THE SEA PASSING ICONS FORTUNE FAVOURS THE BRAVE! IN THE 1960s, w...