Flying Scotsman 4472

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James Talbot

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Aug 3, 2024, 3:27:05 PM8/3/24

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There is a whole other story about changes in appearance during private ownership: red backed painted nameplates, green cylinder covers, double tenders, LNER coats of arms cab side, cowcatchers, bells, different identities for the film Agatha (1978), the A3 boiler being replaced with an A4 example, and the locomotive appearing in a hybrid BR-LNER form with smoke deflectors and double chimney. In her lifetime Flying Scotsman has had three classes (A1, A10 and A3), four colours, six numbers, nine different tenders and at least fifteen different boilers. So while the locomotive will return to steam in an appearance as close as possible to how she looked in January 1963 who knows whether this most chameleon of engines will once again undergo a change of appearance in future.

Flying Scotsman obviously had a change of smokebox door as I have a photo of it in Kings Cross shed January 1962 with a complete handrail above the hinge bracket and the numberplate above that. A case of the original not being replace in its last overhaul before preservation.

It has been very interesting reading all the comments and history.I have just returned from North Yorkshire,having spent a week looking at this wonderful locomotive along with thousands of others.I have been more enlightened by what I have read but for myself,I would love to see 4472 Flying Scotsman in Apple Green,which I am sure a lot of fans would also love.Thankfully we have lots of archive of this locomotive and who knows,one day we may see it in Apple Green!

When I was a kid we use to climb the railway embankments and put the old pennies on the line and wait until the next steam train passed, my mum use to go beserk ! Often we would jump up onto the bridge parapet and hang on as the train passed, engulfed in hot steam and coal smoke. I would get home and my mum used to ask me if I had been playing near to the trains, but of course she knew I had cos I smelt of sulphur !! Happy days, train spotting and being a normal boy.

They are smoke deflectors, By deflecting the slipstream upwards as it passes over the loco, it helps lift the exhaust steam ans stops it obscuring the driver;s forward vision. This became more a problem with the A3s once they were fitted with a double chimney, which resulted in a softer exhaust.

we think that flying Scotsman should be put back to her l n e r apple green livery and carry the number 4472 once again and you will actually find that flying Scotsman in her l n e r with number 4472 will attract a lot more attention in our eyes and all her fans eyes and the people who drove and fired this locomotive and restored it too please bring bacl her l n e r apple green livery and her 4472

please bring back flying scotsmans l n e r apple green livery and number 4472 as we that the locomotive looks a whole lot better in her apple green livery with 4472 on her please bring back the apple green livery as this is how flying Scotsman will always be remembered and loved and cherished by lots and lots of people

I so agree with you michael, but in my opinion i still think it should be restored as close as possible to its original form and not being mislead. We all know the Flying Scotsman for what it is and thats a true iconic locomotive.

I recently traveled to England to trace some of my lineage, and found that the Flying Scotsman was going to be making runs northeast of Manchester, so I had to see it. My dad took me out of school to see it, when it was touring the U.S. forty years ago, because it was so famous. When I saw it a few months ago, it brought tears to my eyes. It was the living, breathing work of art, that I remembered (except the new number- I remember it as 4472). You have something very special, cherish the the FS, no matter the number. ????

can any one help, i am making a 7mm kit of flying scotsman in BR green with double chimney and banjo dome and german deflecters, my question is was the boiler bands lined at this stage as some models show yes yet some pics inc NRM ones shows no. inc no when it ran at the Bluebell Railway, many thanks

When 4472 arrived Edinburgh in the sixties,a band called the sabres,which I was the drummer composed an instrumental called 4472 some of the and are still alive I have photos of us set up next to the engine at Waverly station.

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