Date: 30/09/2011

The campaign to restore one of Britain’s best-known historic trains, the Flying Scotsman, could be completed in early 2012 after planners at the National Railway Museum in York said they were “extremely close” to returning the locomotive to action.

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4472 Flying Scotsman (honest) in the workshops at the National Railway Museum, York, in September 2007. [See image 4383]
Location: National Railway Museum York
Company: National Railway Museum
25/09/2007 Colin Miller

4472 takes the Flying Scotsman Anniversary Special south away from Hawick on 16 April 1966 on its return from Inverkeithing to Northallerton. The special had been organised to celebrate the third anniversary of the purchase of the locomotive by Alan Pegler.
Location: Hawick [2nd]
Company: Border Union Railway (North British Railway)
16/04/1966 Bruce McCartney

4472 Flying Scotsman struggles to round Shipley station west to south curve with the empty stock of The North Yorkshireman heading from Keighley to Bradford Forster Square in June 1981.
Location: Shipley
Company: Skipton Branch (Leeds and Bradford Railway)
30/06/1981 David Pesterfield