She was saved by a single minded Yorkshireman with a romantic streak who rescued it from the scrapyard in 1980 as a birthday gift for his wife. Although it is fashionable to criticise today’s railways, for the most part they offer a more efficient and reliable service than ever before. With the support of the Merchant Navy Locomotive Preservation Society, we see the engine being prepared at Stewarts Lane for a day out in the Garden of England, wearing the Golden Arrow headboard. City of Truro The 2000th locomotive to be built at the famous Swindon Works of the Great Western Railway was always going to be something a bit special. The Bulleid Merchant Navy Pacific 35028 "Clan Line" wasn't their first choice, but has since proved a brilliant flagship of the surviving Southerns.

The 'Flying Scotsman' is the ultimate pictorial records of how the world's most famous express locomotive steamed triumphantly into the Millennium. Social media and advertising cookies of third parties are used to offer you social media functionalities and personalized ads. For our employees we offer them a choice of which days they would like to work with flexible hours to suit their needs and also provide lunch for them once a week. As luck would have it, the only survivor of the V2 class, “Green Arrow”, had just come back from major surgery and she came to the rescue in spectacular fashion.Old and new communities alike thrived on the new accessibility and soon the railways were the arteries carrying the very life blood of the county. For items that are dispatched using our standard service, we ask that you wait 14 days from the date of dispatch before reporting any items as undelivered. Although he does not understand a lot of the narrative, the DVD contains some excellent footage of the Scotsman as it travels around the country, which he is transfixed by. Princess Margaret Rose This “Steam Classics” records the history of Sir William Stanier’s first production Pacific locomotive for the LMS railway. Today, less than 40 trains of only two different types carry far more traffic between King’s Cross, Leeds, York and Edinburgh than the hundreds of steam locomotives of more than a dozen different designs which they replaced.

They were a startling sight - streamlined, painted a lurid shade of green with a sump like a car and chains to drive the valve gear. The enigmatic Bulleid West Country and Battle of Britain engines formed the largest class of 4-6-2 passenger express locomotives ever built in Britain. Today, their quality images, most of them painstakingly shot on glass plates, provide us with a glimpse of a world which some of us will remember, and which others will see for the first time. Finance is provided by PayPal Credit (a trading name of PayPal UK Ltd, Whittaker House, Whittaker Avenue, Richmond-Upon-Thames, Surrey, United Kingdom, TW9 1EH).The film takes a look at the engine’s performance on that trip including detailed footplate and lineside coverage as the crew worked to get the most out of the mixed-traffic engine. Officialdom decreed that examples should be preserved for posterity thus creating a fantastic legacy of locomotives big and small for future generations to relish. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average.