The Flying Scotsman

[cessna152towser]

The iconic steam locomotive Flying Scotsman visited our local Borders Railway today for the first time in fifty years.

My lovely wife Gabriele shares my passion for steam trains.

Before she came to Scotland Gabriele was active with Deutsch Dampflok Museum at Neunmarkt-Wirsberg in Gemany, both as a steam train driver and as treasurer and she was welcomed on board the footplate of Flying Scotsman by the train crew.

She loves to drive steam engines, here's one from last year when she was driving the Manston on the Swanage Railway and I was stoking the fire for her, a candid taken with a little pocket camera.

Visit Scotland were on hand at Tweedbank Railway Station hoping to entice the passengers from the Flying Scotsman tour train to come to Scotland again and here we are beside "Hamish on the Moove" a German built Mercedes Vito promotional van for Visit Scotland.

[GrainReaper]

I'm an avid steam locomotive fan, and it brings me great joy to see and hear an operational steamer, the worst thing that can happen is for these beasts to be relegated to a museum, heaps of praise for the people who keep steam alive and running.

[Sinclare]

Too cool! I've always loved that engine, though I wish they'd lose those German-style guards on the front and return it to the original look. Someday, I hope to get a chance to see that and the Mallard - two just beautiful engines.

[neloon]

And then it went over the Forth Bridge and into the Kingdom of Fife
https://www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/news...ams-into-fife/

Alan

[tulloch]

Bravo Alex! That looks like wonderful fun.

[Reiver]

They are fantastic pieces of machinery are they not. Looks to be in fine kit too.