The Flying Scotsman, the Most Famous Steam Train in the World

I do believe it is better to preserve such history on a track - rather than a museum. Great doco'. Thank you.

Had the pleasure in the 1980's or 1990's in Australia riding this beauty from Melbourne to Geelong & return. I remember looking out of the classroom window at Frankston High School, watching the Frankston to Stony Point line steam freight train being turned on the roundabout in the early 1950's & it often went to Melbourne to pick up freight. The sound of a steam engine pulses through you like a heart beat that diesel or electric trains could never do.💜

We met 4472 when she was in Australia in 1988. We took part in a parallel run into Sydney between 4472 and New South Wales’s prime locomotive 3801. That was a thrilling experience which I still have on film on YouTube. It is entitled LNER FLYING SCOTSMAN 4472 ON ITS AUSTRALIAN TOUR 1988. Graham Wilcox

What a saga...incredible adventure, a well made documentary that catches the attention and never gets dull, great photography , music, interviews and very well narrated....

I was very lucky to travel hundreds of miles with Scotsman in Australia 1989.

Yes good point. It’s one of those things that makes my teeth stand on edge when people refer to a locomotive as a “train” and watching further on, thus sympathetic documentary does refer to locomotives correctly. It’s quite heartwarming to see non-railway minded people holding this locomotive in such high esteem and affection.

Such a heartwarming story...Thank you.❤❤❤❤

My great grand father, a teenage Scotsman, came to California and worked his whole life on trains. He would get angry w my great grandmother and say, "I'm going all the way to Bangor, Maine; I may not be back!" He has a pass that got him on all USA railroads. That was the 1920s, according to family lore.

Frenchman here. No question about how huge the British contribution has been to trains especially in the XIX century. No question about beauties like this Flying Scottsman locomotive absolute beauty, the Mallard which won speed records. No question about wonderful bridges Britain constructed (Firth of Forth, Royal Albert Bridge, etc). There is a little exageration about the Flying Scottsman being the world's most famous train but rather one of the most famous trains. Needless to mention trains like the Orient express, the Train Bleu (Paris to Nice). When it comes to speed, we French mave made some contributions (331 km/h in 1955 and 574 km/h in 2007). So truth is many European countries have made their contribution to inventions and beautiful Engineering.

In adittion to Flying Scotsman....I love the Lemberg toooo much❤❤❤❤❤❤ A powerful Locomotive

From this to what we have today, somehow seems we have gone backwards in some sense

It's not a "Train" it's a LOCOMOTIVE!!!

A great story of the Flying Scotsman for me to enjoy. ❤❤❤❤❤

Should have been titled worlds most expensive operating stream locomotive!! Wow thats a labor of love... I'm glad she is still alive and well!!

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I remember seeing Flying Scotsman when it came to North America around 1972, It visited San Francisco at Fisherman's wharf and you could tour it. It was especially memorable because going thru the corridor in the tender I had claustrophobia attack. My first ever so that stood out for me haha.

Fantastic documentary. Thank you for the post

Brilliant video production. I never knew Alan Peglar was only able to run the locomotive on BR due to a legal technicality and that he lost his job over the purchase. Nor did I know it was Ted Heath's Government withdrawing support for the American tour that led to Alan Peglar entering bankruptcy.

Beauty, elegance and power. What engineering eh?

Saw her as a Kid in 1988 while she was in Australia one of the reasons I love steam trains.