6th February 2016 (Winter Cumbrian Mountain Express)

Date Saturday, 6th February 2016

Locomotive 60103 (Flying Scotsman)

Ran as 60103

Direction South

Load 11

Diesel Rear

Tour name Winter Cumbrian Mountain Express

Headboard Railway Touring Company

Tour promoter Railway Touring Company

Operating company West Coast Railways

Route

London Euston
Carnforth (60103 on)
Carlisle
Hellifield
Blackburn
Farington Junction (60103 off)
London Euston

Notes

60103 inaugural tour. Final run before S&C closure due to Eden Brows landslip.

It's been 12 long years since I last saw the sole surviving Gresley A3. A loco that is a love hate relationship for many, myself included, my childhood memories are of 4472 heading 'The Sellafield Sightseer' along the Cumbrian Coast line (single chimney, no deflectors; hint).

Sounding like a very well oiled machine, sporting three different numbers; 60103 on the smokebox, 103 on one cabside and 502 on the other, some of the many residents of Carlisle who came out to see her visit to the Border City may have been forgiven to wonder where 4472 got to?

Having departed a packed Carlisle Citadel Station of well wishers Flying Scotsman is seen at the 'well pruned' Durranhill.

Published in Steam Railway, Issue 451.

Flying Scotsman at Durranhill
at , Garlands, England, United Kingdom by The Talkin Lens.