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The Flying Scotsman was originally built in Doncaster for the London and North Eastern Railway (LNER), emerging from the works on 24 February 1923 and initially numbered 1472. It was designed by Sir Nigel Gresley as part of the A1 class – the most powerful locomotives used by the railway.
By 1924, when it was selected to appear at the British Empire Exhibition in London, the loco had been renumbered 4472 – and been given the name ‘Flying Scotsman’ after the London to Edinburgh rail service which started daily at 10am in 1862.
In 1928, it was given a new type of tender with a corridor, which meant that a new crew could take over without stopping the train. This allowed it to haul the first ever non-stop London to Edinburgh service reducing the journey time to eight hours.
In 1934, Scotsman was clocked at 100mph on a special test run – officially the first locomotive in the UK to have reached that speed.
LNER passenger locomotives had always been painted Apple Green. During the Second World War, Flying Scotsman was repainted in wartime black, in common with all railway stock. After the war, it became green again, and was rebuilt as an A3 Pacific.
In 1948, rail travel in Britain was nationalised with the formation of British Railways. Scotsman, now numbered 60103, was painted blue for a time, then BR Green. It remained in this colour until 1963, when it was retired by British Rail. By this time, it had undergone several alterations to improve its performance – but it had been pulling trains for 40 years (and 2 million km), and steam engines were becoming old-fashioned.
The engine travelled to America from 1969 to 1973, and Australia in 1988/89 where it set the steam train nonstop-endurance record of 422 miles.
Recently completely restored (with a new authentic A3 boiler), Flying Scotsman will be making special tours throughout the UK in 2016.
This implementation is the A3 locomotive in 4472 LNER Apple Green livery, without the smoke deflectors. The Carriages are the 1950s Custard and Red British Rail Mk1 carriages (more or less). It should be noted that English railway stock have the smallest dimensions of all railways - these are scale true at 4m tall and only 2.75m wide. The carriages are 19m long, and fit very well into RRW curves. There is a complete set of props to complement the automata and these can be used on their own. Prop families are: F5E800C0 Engines, F5E800C1 Carriages
This mod completely replaces the Maxis passenger engine and carriage and if mixed with any other extra Passenger engines or carriages will produce mixed consists (which sort of destroys the effect).
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