The coal used was once supplied by British mines ... He says in recent years, images of Flying Scotsman puffing across the Forth Bridge have "probably reinforced the idea that it's a Scottish ...

The RAIB said the Flying Scotsman’s driver was expecting the ... The tender is coupled behind the locomotive and carries the eight tons of coal required by the steam engine.

The beloved chug of steam trains from icons like the Flying Scotsman could be lost forever without a supply of high-quality coal, heritage railway experts have warned. The UK heritage rail sector ...

The works had been purpose-built in 1853 by the Great Northern Railway, which chose Doncaster because of the plentiful quantities of coal ... prepare Flying Scotsman for overhaul.

Flying Scotsman looked oddly incongruous stopped at platform two with just a single, support-crew carriage attached to its coal tender rather than the luxury train of the inter-war years.

When Canadian Publisher Roy Thomson bought Scotland’s whiskery morning Scotsman (circ. 56,091), he stropped his razor and announced that he planned changes that “would be obvious to any ...

It does not necessarily reflect the view of The Herald. The Flying Scotsman has made its first passenger journeys of the year in Cambridgeshire to commemorate the anniversary of British Railways.