Surprised no-one has posted about this already:http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-35515743
She's looking a lot better than the last time I saw her!I can't say I'm inspired by the wartime black, but I get the impression they're likely to repaint her soon.
I find the Brits' insistence to do things like painting a locomotive 4 times amusing.
...and lots of people trespassing on the railway to get a look at her on her first main line run:http://news.sky.com/story/1648376/trespassers-stop-flying-scotsman-in-its-tracks
>>132099Looks like the people in the video aren't ON the tracks, just on railroad property. When 611 came around, the rule of thumb was "Stay off the ballast and you'll be fine." Though, we didn't have 125mph+ trains coming by on adjacent tracks.
>>132099
Looks like the people in the video aren't ON the tracks, just on railroad property. When 611 came around, the rule of thumb was "Stay off the ballast and you'll be fine." Though, we didn't have 125mph+ trains coming by on adjacent tracks.
http://www.railengineer.uk/2016/02/26/video-flying-scotsman-returns/ -- Has an embedded YT video clip.
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