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Flying Scotsman Story by Allen Pegler Bailey 1969 Hard Cover
The Flying Scotsman Story Allen Pegler Bailey
Hardcover
First printed 1969
Approx 80 pages by Cecil J. Allen, Alan Pegler, Trevor Bailey
"Flying Scotsman": what thoughts that magical name conjures up. It was the Flying Scotsman that was always featured in children's picture books of our youth, the crack high speed express of the East Coast railway route between London and Edinburgh via York; it was the Flying Scotsman that took us to Scotland for holidays; and at times the Flying Scotsman has included a cinema coach and hairdressing saloon. Yet what is the Flying Scotsman? No one knows quite when the name was coined, for the 10 am expresses from Kings Cross and Edinburgh were known by the nickname "Flying Scotsman" long before the title was officially bestowed on these trains in 1927. Four years before, however, the name Flying Scotsman was given to the third of Gresley's newly-built Class Al Pacifics, then No. 1472, but soon renumbered as 4472 under the LNER renumbering scheme of that time. Thus was born what has become, without doubt, the most famous locomotive in the world. It was the engine chosen by the LNER to represent the best in locomotive design at the Wembley Exhibition in 1924; it was the engine which worked the first regular non-stop run of the 10 am "Flying Scotsman" express in 1928, and in 1934 it achieved Britain's first officially authenticated 100 mph maximum down Stoke Bank on a test run.
There were, it is true, more praiseworthy exploits by other locomotives; Coronation's 114 mph in 1937 and Mallard's 126 mph in 1938-the world record for steam traction-yet somehow it was the locomotive Firing Scotsman which captured public imagination, even after it had been replaced by more modern forms of motive power on crack expresses and despite losing its historic number, 4472, to become No. 103 and, later, British Railways 60103. When the locomotive was scheduled for withdrawal by British Railways, Alan Pegler, in buying Flying Scotsman and restoring it to its well-known LNER apple green livery with its original number of 4472, won the thanks of millions, for Flying Scotsman alone represents the last of the steam age on British Railways; it is the only one of the many preserved locomotives that is allow to run on BR main lines today and which it will do until the agreement between Alan Pegler and the BRB expires in 1971. During 1969 Flying Scotsman added another honor to its credit by crossing the Atlantic to haul a British trade exhibition tour train in the United States of America. In this second edition, Harold Edmonson presents a graphic account of the tour.
This book tells the story of 4472 through the writing of historian Cecil J. Allen who surveys East Coast motive power in general, and Flying Scotsman in particular, Alan Pegler-No. 4472's owner- who describes what life is like with an express locomotive as part of the family, and Trevor Bailey, who recalls the 40th anniversary of the non-stop run to Edinburgh in May 1968. Also, an album section is devoted to photographs of 4472 in action from the cameras of some of Britain's finest railway photographers.
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