Date: 30/04/2013

A FORMER boss of the National Railway Museum has hit out at the “awful” management of the Flying Scotsman restoration. Andrew Dow, who was head of the NRM in the early 1990s, has spoken out about the stalled restoration project, which began in January 2006 and was scheduled to last one year and cost about £750,000. The museum has spent £2.89 million so far, and an independent engineering report earlier this year identified that further repairs were needed at substantial cost. A tender for the work was issued yesterday.

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A FORMER boss of the National Railway Museum has hit out at the awful management of the Flying Scotsman restoration.

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4472 Flying Scotsman runs north through Tweedmouth station on 9 May 1964 with Pegler's Pullman en route from Doncaster to Edinburgh. Tweeedmouth shed (52D) can be seen in the rear right of the photograph. The locomotive spent the following 9 days in Scotland on railtour duty and returned south light engine on 18 May. It was during this visit that the initial work on the Terence Cuneo painting of 4472 on the Forth Bridge was undertaken.
Location: Tweedmouth
Company: Newcastle and Berwick Railway
09/05/1964 Robin Barbour Collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney)

4472 Flying Scotsman on display at a steam gathering at Princes Risborough in October 1986.
Location: Princes Risborough
Company: Princes Risborough, Thame and Oxford Extension and Aylesbury Extension (Wycombe Railway)
12/10/1986 Peter Todd