Thread: The Flying Scotsman Down under

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

You have got me concerned now 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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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.

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.

Thanks Rosco8 for sharing. Great memories indeed.

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 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

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 .

Originally Posted by 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 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

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 .