FLYING SCOTSMAN CENTENARY
A Baker’s dozen
SCOTSMAN ABROAD
John Baker presents his pick of images from No. 4472’s trips abroad to the United States of America at the end of the 1960s, and then 20 years later to Australia.
Scotsman began its US tour running from Boston to New York, and is pictured en route at Hartford (Connecticut) on October 12, 1969.
HAWTHORNE COLLECTION
By November 2, 1969, Scotsman had reached Anniston (Alabama) on the second leg of its tour that year from Washington to Dallas.
Flying Scotsman is pictured at Doncaster Works in August 1969, being prepared for its Government-supported trip to the USA promoting British exports. The Works had stopped doing steam overhauls in 1963, so instead No. 4472 went to the Hunslet Engine Company in Leeds for this, returning to Doncaster to be repainted. It is pictured with the fittings it needed to operate in the USA, including a cowcatcher, buckeye coupler, US-style bell, and large steam whistle. However, it was still to work one final railtour in Britain without these, when it hauled the ‘Summer Tour’ from King’s Cross to Newcastle and back on August 31.
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