http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...cial-journey-legendary-steam-train-refit.html Shrouded in steam through the scenic British countryside almost a century after it was built, the Flying Scotsman gave trainspotters a day to remember. But the excitement was too much for some this morning, who forced it to come to a 'shuddering stop' on its inaugural journey by standing on the line. The train, which departed London King's Cross at 7.40am and arrived in York at 1.20pm today, came to a halt near St Neots in Cambridgeshire. And the conductor of one of the world's most famous trains leaned out of the window 50 miles into its first official run after a £4.2million refit. Footage taken from inside shows him yelling: ‘Will you get right off the line side?! You are causing the railway to be shut. Right off the line side!' Of course, there are always the usual idiots... Aside from that though, this is a triumph of British engineering that this engine can keep running despite the setbacks it suffered during its overhaul, especially as steam trains on the main line have been getting a bad rap following the incident at Wootton Bassett last March. I remember travelling behind it from York to London back in 1999 and loved every minute.
I'm a bit of a secret enthusiast and I've been following this piece of tin today. The amount of people lineside delayed a hell of a lot of services. Steam should be banned off the main line now, its a farce. Plus Joe Bloggs never had a chance to ride behind this only the upper class. £450 a ticket. Pfftttttt
It was £450 a ticket due to it being the inaugural run after the engine spent ten years being overhauled. The other tours started at far less and all sold out very quickly.
Not forgetting a ticket for the run down the East Lancs a month back was triple the normal running price, and that goes for the run down the SVR later in the year as well. Anyway that's for steam fans. I'm not a steam fan so I suppose I'm being hypocritical in bothering.
Don't they have a steam train that runs regularly up in Scotland from Fort William? I think it's only a summer thing but I think that's got it's own bit of track hasn't it? That's what they should do with this, give it a length of rail to operate on that's somewhere scenic..
Ah, OK, I thought it was just a scenic route that it ran on in the summer months. EDIT: Just had a look at the website, I wouldn't mind having me some of that action. Looks a cracking way to spend a day that..
There's a heritage railway in Downpatrick that is for Steam Trains (no operating passenger trains use this line). Unfortunately back when the rail network in Ireland was built they used a different scale, so we cannot use steam trains from the mainland.
