The Flying Scotsman Down under

[disco man]

Found a bloody brilliant dvd at the local library today,The Flying Scotsman Down Under. It would have to be one of the best rail dvd's i have seen.It's a ABC re-issue and one most of you have most likely seen but for those who have not i will continue.


Some of the highlights include a double header with a very cool loco no 3801 from Sydney to Brisbane with thousands lining the route.The footage of the flying Scotsman running the blue mountains line is also very good.Many thought she would struggle with the steep grades as she was never intended for such use.But the mighty Scot did it with ease and did it 7 times.

Leaving Melbourne with 2 R class locos no 761,707 awesome loco's in their own right.But seeing all 3 together on a 3 wide parallel run is magical.Then it's on to Alice springs for a parallel run with the Ghan which is a very interesting loco called Lou Marks no J 515.The Ghan is a wood burning loco and next to the classy Scot they form a very odd looking couple. One thing i found strange about the dvd was the coaches she was pulling such a majestic loco should have the finest sets Australia has to offer.


Part 2 of the dvd is a short film about the Derwent line in Tassie. The loco running the line is a purple H2 class with a 4,8,2, mountain type wheel set-up no 5950 built by the Vulcan factory Lancashire.The loco is from the Australian national railway also very good viewing.

I highly rate this dvd and strongly urge rail fans to keep a eye out for it:D

[drivesafe]

Hi disco man, I was living in Wollongong when the 4447 came to Australia.

Talk about popular. A mate was working at Mortdale car sheds when he saw 4447 heading down the South Coast with a dynamiter car, on it’s road trials.

He rang me, so I rang the ABC radio and a couple of other stations.

BIG MISTAKE!

By the time I got to where I wanted to get some photos, the place was full of people waiting for it to come through.

[robbotd5]

Funny you should post this Disco man. I have this DVD and I am watching it again for the thousandth time!.
Yep, a great DVD and I especially love seeing 1210 and 3112 double heading.
Regards
Robbo

[disco man]

Hi disco man, I was living in Wollongong when the 4447 came to Australia.

Talk about popular. A mate was working at Mortdale car sheds when he saw 4447 heading down the South Coast with a dynamiter car, on it’s road trials.

He rang me, so I rang the ABC radio and a couple of other stations.

BIG MISTAKE!

By the time I got to where I wanted to get some photos, the place was full of people waiting for it to come through.

You lucky bugger would have loved to see her in the flesh!!! what a awesome loco:)

[disco man]

Funny you should post this Disco man. I have this DVD and I am watching it again for the thousandth time!.
Yep, a great DVD and I especially love seeing 1210 and 3112 double heading.
Regards
Robbo

Good call mate the double heading is a highlight,i can see this dvd been a overdue return!!!

[Dinty]

Way back then, I chased it filming it from Maitland to Wauchope, got lot's of film footage, talked to the footplate crew, (Roland Kennington is a name that sticks in my mind) stuck my camera in so as to get a shot of the 3rd cylinder, and I did actually touch the locomotive on quite a few occasions LOL.
One thing I can remember is the weather, it was atrocious, wet n wild is the best way to describe it up around Wauchope, we were going as far as Kyogle but I pulled the pin and stayed in Port Macquarie overnight and came home the next day, all this on the old Pacific hwy and some back roads, cheers Dennis

[Pedro_The_Swift]

heres a bit,,,:cool::cool::cool:
Flying Scotsman R761 R707 parallel run - YouTube

[p38arover]

I have some photos I took at Penrith railway station when it was here. We, the public, were allowed on track and all around it.

I'll try to find them to scan.

[disco man]

I have some photos I took at Penrith railway station when it was here. We, the public, were allowed on track and all around it.

I'll try to find them to scan.

That would be awesome mate hope you do find them:)

[Bushy049]

Think I had that on vhs when I was a kid a saw the Scott in wa , very exciting for me at that time and age. Also have a bit of family history with that loco as my great grandfather used to drive her , he worked for LNER most of his working life still have some of his old badges.

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[disco man]

Think I had that on vhs when I was a kid a saw the Scott in wa , very exciting for me at that time and age. Also have a bit of family history with that loco as my great grandfather used to drive her , he worked for LNER most of his working life still have some of his old badges.

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It seems that the mighty SCOT touched all that saw her and created very fond memories.If possible could you post some pictures of your great granddads badges please mate.

[p38arover]

The TV programme about the Scot was on (again) about a week ago. The loco sent a couple of owners broke.

[Bushy049]

You have got me concerned now :confused: have recently moved house and can't find them, it's going to bug me now until I can find them. I'll put them up when I find them ......

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[oldyella 76]

A freind of mine actually rode it around the place as a foremen / pilotman he has given me a photo of them going through the Gap at Alice Springs. He rode with it up there where they hauled it with a diesel until they got near the Alice when they spread the fire and steamed in. I have been on it at South Dynon depot and it was quite small when compared with our s. It also had a much smaller cab than our steamers. In all he said it was a great little loco.
Lindsay.

[Rosco8]

I was extremely lucky, having recently joined ARHS ACT along with a bunch of others we headed down to Melbourne and I got some great video footage of it working at speed chasing it from Wang up to Albury. My wife was driving and it started to pull away and i remember yelling faster .. she screams back 'I am already doing 160kph' Coming back it was paralleling a Albury to Spencer St N class set and trackside we all got sand blasted they were going so hard. Unfortunately Flying Scotsman broke some springs (tender ??) due to our rough tracks so from that point on they self placed a speed restriction on it, think is was 100kph.

We went down to see it return from the Perth (or maybe Alice) trip at the bottom of Zig Zag, it was double headed with 3801 and I have never heard 2 steam engines that loud, they slogged up the grade and every cylinder hit was like a explosion, kids there were crying from it being so loud and frightening .. awesome !!!!

We (ARHS ACT) hired her for a weekend, would have taken too long to turn her at Queanbeyan so we ran 1210 and the light carriage set down to Goulbourn on the Saturday and everybody swapped on Flying Scotsman and did Goulbourn Mossvale return. On return to Goulbourn we swapped the carriages over to her namesake Alco 4472 night and took the passengers back to Canberra, I got a cab ride back to Goulbourn, driver, his wife and me .. and then spent the night on the train in the yards towards the roundhouse. Cold .. damm it was SO COLD, never forget how cold I was !!!!

In the morning 1210 was doing shuttles (station to roundhouse) and 4472 was backing onto our carriage set. I got invited onto the footplate and just as we were about to move 1210 came up on the next line and so we took off with both locos madly blowing their whistles and the loco inspector hanging out of 1210 going, yelling 'come on you pommie bast#$ds', down to the station. Fantastic. That day we ran the train for Goulbourn city council to Mossvale and on the way back I had a decent footplate ride from Marulan to Goulbourn as sunset happened. Beautiful loco .. sleek, a greyhound, and that triple beat .. brings back fantastic memories.

[Ausfree]

Thanks Rosco8 for sharing. Great memories indeed.:D

[Rosco8]

Thanks guys .. a newbie here .. for some strange reason drawn to getting one of the ex army FFR's at Minto yesterday .. drove a mates at Scone over Easter and had some fun .. my 2nd time owning a Landy .. these army jobs have a lot more power than my '64/65 though totally lack creature comforts. Admission, leased 2 Pajero Exceeds over the years :o:o But they scared me doing remote trips, though were well travelled .. well after diving into a sand dune I realised that their was too much technology to get fixed on the road so I assume I have over come the problem with a very simple ex army vehicle, even if I need to wear earplugs over 80kph :):)

So a train buff from an early age .. more recently do yearly trips to NZ where you can still do great photo stops in amazing scenery. Then again flying down Melbourne to do the Snow trip with Steam Rail on 13th July with the 2xR classes.

My last NZ trip a photo or 2 .. KA942 Christchurch to Greymouth, yeh .. got a cab ride .. part of the deal .. and JA 1240 outside Rollinston

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[Fatso]

The Flying Scotsman was married up with its old arch nemises in the UK the Pendennis Castle, then owned by Hamersly Iron in the Pilbara for a series of runs in WA in 1989 .

[Fatso]

Thanks guys .. a newbie here .. for some strange reason drawn to getting one of the ex army FFR's at Minto yesterday .. drove a mates at Scone over Easter and had some fun .. my 2nd time owning a Landy .. these army jobs have a lot more power than my '64/65 though totally lack creature comforts. Admission, leased 2 Pajero Exceeds over the years :o:o But they scared me doing remote trips, though were well travelled .. well after diving into a sand dune I realised that their was too much technology to get fixed on the road so I assume I have over come the problem with a very simple ex army vehicle, even if I need to wear earplugs over 80kph :):)

So a train buff from an early age .. more recently do yearly trips to NZ where you can still do great photo stops in amazing scenery. Then again flying down Melbourne to do the Snow trip with Steam Rail on 13th July with the 2xR classes.

My last NZ trip a photo or 2 .. KA942 Christchurch to Greymouth, yeh .. got a cab ride .. part of the deal .. and JA 1240 outside Rollinston

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Love the white gloves on the driver , when I first started at the old Enfield Loco Sheds NSW as a trainee engineman , I was told if you got on the foot plate with a pair of gloves on you would be kicked straight off by the driver , meaning you cant keep the cab clean and washed down with gloves on , sweat rags and the injector hose were for that .

[margaret box]

Hi,
Just found a copy of this DVD in excellent condition.
I will watch it tonight .
margaret

[Ausfree]

Hi,
Just found a copy of this DVD in excellent condition.
I will watch it tonight .
margaret

Hello Margaret, welcome to the Forum.:D Yes, it would be a good watch. I remember when they sent the Flying Scotsman over here, it was all over the news.:D:D

[B.S.F.]

Between 1984 and 1989 I lived near the Sydney -Brisbane railway line west of Beaudesert. I remember the Flying Scotsman going past .Then a day or so later it came back on an excursion to Tamrookum and back to Brisbane. That's when I took this picture. .W.

[V8Ian]

Have you returned the DVD yet DM? ;):D

[drivesafe]

Here is some good info on the flying Scott.


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/travel_news/article-3167090/Full-steam-ahead-4-2m-restoration-iconic-Flying-Scotsman-nears-completion-s-expected-locomotive-return-mainline-end-year.html

[Ausfree]

Here is some good info on the flying Scott.


<http://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/travel_news/article-3167090/Full-steam-ahead-4-2m-restoration-iconic-Flying-Scotsman-nears-completion-s-expected-locomotive-return-mainline-end-year.html>

Linky no worky!!!:p

[drivesafe]

Thanks Ausfree, problem fixed.

I have a new iMac and honestly, its a piece of you know what. You want it to do one thing and it has a mind of its own and does something else.

Why can't they make new computers simply follow on from the older one, when you upgrade?

[Landybitz]

Between 1984 and 1989 I lived near the Sydney -Brisbane railway line west of Beaudesert. I remember the Flying Scotsman going past .Then a day or so later it came back on an excursion to Tamrookum and back to Brisbane. That's when I took this picture. .W.

Jesus it must have cost a lot to get it here.

[back_in]

Hi All
it was great time, I was the Yard Master at Keswick in Adelaide in 1988 then she arrived. We ran Broad and Standard Gauge from Salisbury into Keswick side by side, how we did not run over half the Nuts taking photos, sound recordings etc.
Had the Historical Mob dribbling when I brought both Standard and Broad Gauge engines nose to nose on the Platform.
She went from Sydney via Broken Hill to Adelaide to Perth and return.
From memory there was our local crew (Aussie) driving with a Brit Engine man on the foot plate and anyone else who could cadge a ride (inc yours truely)
I think the rebuild in England and bring her out etc cost in the region $8 to $10m. Part of the Bi Centenary cellebrations.
cheers
Ian

[Pickles2]

drivesafe,..thanks for that FANTASTIC link, which I really enjoyed . It's good to know that this famous engine will now probably live forever.
Being an old Pom, I grew up with steam, train spotting etc, & for a while lived in Manchester, just down the road from the Bayer Peacock works in Gorton.
My relos, the "Budenbergs" manufactured pressure guages, which were used on many steam locos.
Thanks, Pickles.