The Flying Scotsman

Braw a body FC

 

Lovely piece of filming @fat controller although I was amazed as to the amount of carriages they had behind it,and loved the Diesel unit on the end for the return journey

We are booked to going on it in September and are so looking forward to it

 

@fat controller when they did the first run from London up to York I would have loved to have been on it with Mr Kandy as I had been following it's progress for a number of years even when there was a set back a couple of years ago which delayed getting it running again.When the tickets went on sale they were £450 each plus we would have had to either drive down to London or train it,then the journey to York was one way so then we would have had to have found our way back down to London again to collect our transport home,either our car from an all day parking slot or the train back home, and we really couldn't justify spending near £1,000 for a few hours on a steam train.

Luckily the trip we are taking on it later on in the year won't cost anywhere near that price

 

@fat controller I hadn't heard about the champagne drinking as I only got as far as looking at the prices and as it was far too expensive for us I didn't take it further. I think it was full of journalists and people with lots of dosh plus a few dozen train enthusiasts

I think the high prices are to help pay for the restoration especially when they had the crack found in the boiler I think it was but don't quote me on it

Mr Kandy would love to be on the footplate of any steam train as he loves them like I do even though as a country yokel he wasn't into steam trains whereas me being a towney me and my brothers used to stand by the fence with our Ian Allan locospotters books and would tick off the trains as they came through Northampton.We used to wave as well and I always say to Mr Kandy we were the original Railway Children even before the film was made

Our trip on it is £76 for two from Minehead to Bishops Lydeard and then back on a named Locomotive to Minehead

Yes it would be fantastic for Mallard to be back on track so to speak but Mr Kandy thinks it is in the railway museum in York?

 

We went to see the flying scot on the 19th may in glos but it was at 8.45pm when it was dew, but there was a delay, no not leaves on the line but people with a death wish, so the flying scot was a hour late and was dark when he came through

 

Yes @fat controller we thought it a bargain after the amount it cost to get her back on the lines although if she is going to be touring around the British Isles for the rest of her life then they will eventually recoupe the £10,000,000 it is thought to have cost to reverb her so yes I can see why they are reluctant to move Mallard.I will pass the info on to Mr Kandy that she is at the York museum.I think Sir Nigel Gresley (sp) is there as well?

How terrible that because of those idiots getting to near to spoil it for everyone else so. Bet you are glad that you managed to see her in all her glory I will rerun your video so I can get a better look at the named engine on the back

I got it wrong slightly,we are travelling from Bishops Lydeard to Minehead as it is free parking and we will have time to walk round Minehead before we head back whereas there is only the railway shop at Bishops Lydeard plus we want to be pulled the proper way round not having the engine backwards

 

I'll be down that way then, sussed out a good location when we were there last month, trains on one side of the path and sea fishing on the other side. And agree that they just don't look right with the engine at the wrong end.