I hope that you all will enjoy this video! It has been in the works on and off since September 2023 and is the longest video I have made in 2 years! Today we look at the paradoxical story of the world's most famous steam locomotive: Flying Scotsman

@DavidR0cks14-onYT

4 ай бұрын

But City of Truro was the actual first engine to reach 100MPH.Truro did it in 1904

@tubularap

4 ай бұрын

I applaud all the effort you put into this. I only wish you would have taken more time for the same content. And leave the special effects transitions alone. I tried to play at a slower speed, but the sound became awful and the editing was still too frantic. So now I will watch your video in segments of 1 minute, to avoid headache. Do continue with making good content. Try to see editing as a way to put information in sequence, so we viewers can digest it. Not as a venue for showing the possibilities of the editing software. If you keep the viewer in mind, at all times, your videos will be enjoyable for a wide audience.

@VestedUTuber

4 ай бұрын

@0cks14 Yeah, it's more accurate to say that Scotsman was the first to reach 100MPH in revenue service. Truro did it first but it was only pulling a test train, whereas Scotsman would regularly hit 100mph while pulling passengers.

@DavidR0cks14-onYT

4 ай бұрын

@@VestedUTuber in my name you forgot DavidR

@VestedUTuber

4 ай бұрын

@@DavidR0cks14-onYT Weird. I didn't manually type that, I used the reply function on the desktop version of the site. It should have automatically added that.

Flying Scotsman could be considered next level preservation because a lot of her parts are from sister A3s

@richardharrold9736

4 ай бұрын

That is true of most steam locomotives, they were kits of parts that got rotated through use, light and heavy repairs and storage as necessary, boilers, tenders, wheelsets, cylinders, motion, everything got swapped around. Hence it being discovered that what was believed to be 4983 Royal Albert Hall rescued from Barry was actually 4965 Rood Ashton Hall...

@Caledonianpug

4 ай бұрын

@@richardharrold9736Very fascinating. I heard flying Scotsman’s boiler was from her sister Salmon Trout and the frame and tender are from parts from a A4

@richardharrold9736

4 ай бұрын

@@Caledonianpug the frame was mostly original 4472 until the last overhaul when significant sections had to be replaced. It had been running an A4 boiler under Marchington, though. The boiler on it now is from Salmon Trout. The A4 boiler is a wee bit heavier and pressured to 250psi instead of 220. Scotsman as she was in 2003 when I saw her hauling the VSOE British Pullman at Betchworth had I think A4 cylinders as well, but bored out to the absolute maximum, the tractive effort was up to almost 48,000lb, a 45.5% increase, but it was knocking hell out of the frames...

@Caledonianpug

4 ай бұрын

@@richardharrold9736 When the A10s aka A1/A3s were first build in the 1920s they did have lots of frame cracking issues to begin with so it was common to make new parts

@richardharrold9736

4 ай бұрын

@@Caledonianpug and there was one that got written off in a crash that got 'rebuilt' so quickly that it steamed past the smashed-up hulk!

you'd think after the 3rd bankruptcy people would start thinking the damned thing is cursed

@hiawathabeast

4 ай бұрын

sadly, some people do. personally, i think scotsman's being unfairly blamed. pegler and marchington were too ambitious and it cost them in the end, remember, tony marchington was the reason why her overhaul became a debacle and cost so much money. pegler should've cut his losses and keep the us tour to 1969 after the government pulled their funding, but he pressed on and suprise, he's in massive debt and had to abandon his engine. flying scotsman wouldn't have had the nickname "the flying money pit" had her 1st and 3rd owners been more sensible.

@ethandouro4334

3 ай бұрын

@@hiawathabeast Kinda tells a lot about financial education in the UK tbh... Three rich people that can afford to buy an entire Engine can't even raise money to repair or maintain it. Didn't they had a company or something to sell a product abroad? Like, there's a similar story here in Brazil, about a car that bankrupt our first democratically elected president while in office, but even he got to raise funds after he stepped down and nowadays live in a very cheap town in the northeast of the country. Kinda sad to see this though

I remember that the Flying Scotsman was the train that got me into trains, even as an American. That’s why my online usernames used to end in 4472.

I confess to loving Mallard more, but I always have a love for Flying Scotsman and its rich history. Sure we’ve had to throw a lot of money at it to keep it going, but it’s worth it to maintain the world’s most famous locomotive. Having a famous steam locomotive does draw some outside interest in heritage railways. It was one of Sir Nigel’s greatest feats, and 100 years later, it’s still a sight to behold.

Wow! It's not every day we see Thomas the Tank Engine or The Railway Series mentioned in any of your videos, but given that Enterprising Engines was published the same year as the non-stop run anniversary with Awdry on board, that makes it even more special. While Flying Scotsman is my favorite steam engine, this journey he had is the most biggest that's ever been told with different ownerships to overhauls, etc. And to those wondering of the Gordon and Spencer rivalry, this is directly based on locomotive fact: the A4s were put on first-class passenger services while Flying Scotsman and the other A1s (later upgraded into A3s) were relegated into secondary services. And since Spencer is literally in The Great Race, you'd think he, Scotsman and Gordon would all have a three-way LNER battle of who's more famous and faster, yet he received one line and that's it!

@OnlyTheRightTrack

4 ай бұрын

That's actually fascinating! I agree, the film would've felt more grounded I think if they would've implemented that! I'm very glad you enjoyed haha

Took the grandson to York to see flying Scotsman last week

What i love about the American tour is the fact that Mr Wilson supported it

She's been worked like a dog, but in other ways, she's been quite spoiled. How many other locomotives would be gifted a £4.2 million pound overhaul? I visited the UK last summer and, en route from London to Glasgow on a budget rail service, got a glimpse (and a very blurry photo) of her idling at a station along the coast. I'd known about Flying Scotsman every since I was a young boy poring over the pages of my Railway Series collection, and seeing her in real life, even just for a split second, was magical.

Long Live the Scotsman!

The Miracle Story of Gordon's brother, The Flying Scotsman.

This was a treat to watch, so well put together and felt straight out of a documentary, brilliant work!

hear this when my parents side saw this locomotive and my grandpa (dad's side) said "its no doubt that Flying Scotsman is the first British train we saw here and Dwight too".

@drewzero1

4 ай бұрын

Was he talking about LNER A4 Pacific 4496, Dwight D Eisenhower?

@A_Lazy_dude

3 ай бұрын

Yes

What an amazing video! The script, voice, graphic design, the RESEARCH! Great job!

@OnlyTheRightTrack

4 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

What a cracking video, the first I’ve seen from this channel. Incredibly professionally presented.

Phenomenal work as usual. Each video you make just gets better and better. Can't wait to see what else you make.

@OnlyTheRightTrack

4 ай бұрын

Thank you very much!

This was such a well made video. As a massive Flying Scotsman enthusiast, a majority of this information I knew, but the way you told it made it feel like I was learning it all over again. Absolutely brilliant!

@OnlyTheRightTrack

4 ай бұрын

thanks so much!

Fab video. Thanks for sharing

As I said in my donation, certificated banger of a video, don’t ever stop

Incredible video dude 🙌

@OnlyTheRightTrack

4 ай бұрын

Glad you liked it!

Ik I’ve already commented on this but this is just AMAZING!!! The amount of research and dedication put into this is a fresh break from terrible history’s and this terrible time in the world. This is just great my cat even agrees

@OnlyTheRightTrack

4 ай бұрын

Thank you so very much, and for the donation too! I will definitely continue making these and I do hope you'll enjoy!

Neat video mate👍

I really enjoyed this video about flying Scotsman history.

Beautiful thumbnail. Keep up the good work 👍👍

Thank you for a longer video

Very well researched and presented story, thank you 👍

@OnlyTheRightTrack

4 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

Enjoyed this vid.

4:54 Pegler's fond memories of seeing FS at Wembley exhibition as child, sitting in driver's seat

Enjoyed the video on one of my favourite locos

Flying Scotsman is the New paradox pokemon 😅

@WatchVidsMakeLists

3 ай бұрын

*Iron Scot* Steel/Fire type Ability: Bankruptcy - Increases the amount of money gained from defeating trainers

@Eevee007King

3 ай бұрын

@@WatchVidsMakeLists 🤣 brilliant

I honestly did not know that you had this channel

I thought this was going to be about the fact that nothing of the original loco outshopped in 1923 still exists.

underated video

Quick little fact: we Americans don't say buckeye couplers, we say knuckle or AAR Knuckles

I used to drive trucks for a company in sheffield whos owner was a train nut, all his trucks had names of steam engines on it with the proper plaques etc, but he never had a scotsman. I remember asking him about that and he laughed at me and said thats a cursed engine and that he will never put that name on one of his trucks, Such a shame the company got bought out by Culina and they will no longer be about.

I cannot believe that the a3 rebuild is a Thomson rebuild 😢

Im honestly not sure if its dedication or bloody brittish stubborness keeping her running anymore.

I've sat in the cab of Scotsman, the biggest achievement of my life

0:57 This Famous Locomotive Flying Scotsman Is A Bit Like Gordon The Big Engine From Thomas The Tank Engine And Friends The Original Series In 1984. Old School Times Man. Thanks Mate. X

@Kaidhicksii

4 ай бұрын

But of course he is! He's Gordon's brother. Gordon was actually built based on the second 1922 prototype plans for what would become the A1s and later A3s.

I don’t remember where I heard it from, but I remember hearing that 4472 had a Southern Railway step-top 3 chime whistle during its American tour. I would personally like to hear it with a southern 3 chime again.

@johnd8892

4 ай бұрын

Another much louder whistle was fitted for the Australian tour. Required by law for increased safety at level crossings. Searching KZread for Flying Scotsman Triple may let you hear it, or other Australian tour videos. In this case it was of a South Australian Railways steam locomotive I believe.

*_THE FLYING SCOTSMAN WITH REALISTIC CHUFFING NOISE_*

@OnlyTheRightTrack

4 ай бұрын

JAMES MAY REFERENCE

Wasnt the clip of him getting unveiled at the end in 2012 or something around then but the was a problem that delayed it to 2016 for him to start running again

Keeping steam running is expensive. As an example, the steam tug I’m an engineer on has a small boiler. However, if it needs to be replaced it will cost 200.000-300.000€ for the boiler alone. If it was bigger it would be 400-500.000€. So it’s not weird to say 4.2million is out of the question.

love vedio from u

My only issue is that you keep calling it THE Flying Scotsman which is the train service, the locomotive is simply "Flying Scotsman". We don't call other engine's THE Pendennis Castle or THE Princess Elizabeth. Overall very good though.

Amazing editing, some of the best I've ever seen! Did you study Leo's film school guides, because it has a similar high energy feel. On the note of 4472 being to slow, its regulated that steam engines are only allowed to run at a max speed of 75 mph because modern track isn't suited to them, making the whole situation a sort of catch 22. You're being told that your not fast enough,and while you could go faster, you can't legally do it.

@OnlyTheRightTrack

4 ай бұрын

Yeah it's quite interesting in itself. I was on a rather electric train going 35 the other day anyway so idk what the fuss is about haha

@1471SirFrederickBanbury

4 ай бұрын

@@OnlyTheRightTrack being that she has an a3 boiler, she could probably take trains reliably over 100 mph. She may not be an a4, but she still is an excellent high speed steam engine.

Sheesh that engine is famous as f**k

my dad has a copy of the may 1st 1968 non-stop run of the flying scotsman I think on vhs. I think it's a great piece of film

My favourite tidbit about the American tour, is that when Scotsman was shipped back to the UK, it was thought she'd have be put onto the back of a lorry to go to the works. Nevertheless, they went through the process of firing her up, just in case, and..... She went to the works under her own power. It's just such a beautiful thing to think about.

the scotsman and the mallard are just the 2 greatest steam trains in the yk

Greece's Debt is larger than all that Debt in the video

How could you not mention what happened to the Scotsman owner in Port Augusta, South Australia Joy was a wild for that one

That Paradox does sounds a tad bizarre... And with the Riley & Son's contract of owning Scotsman expired last year on the 31st of December, I'm concerned for who will own the locomotive next, aside of the National Railway Museum. Heck, Scotsman's mainline certificate doesn't even expire until 2032!

How can I download the image with the engine in parts

Hey, I found your second channel don’t forget about your main channel

Even though Scotsman cost a lot to rebuild, it was worth it ;)

i love the flying scotsman i think it what got me into trains and thomas and friends and if it wasnt for it i wouldnt be a big fan of the railways series it also funny that my many is also scott and the flying SCOTman is my fav train wow i also saw the scotman for it 100 year anniversary in king cross and it so cool to see a steam train in Real life because most are scrapped

I have seen the Scotsman in Scotland, at Aberdeen. Even now he’s beautiful.

I love the A3s and it pains me only scotsman was preserved, so if there were more preserved, here would be my list: Papyrus Doncaster Pretty Polly Gay Crusader Humorist Sandwich Flamingo And of course, Flying Scotsman

@jwatson9732

4 ай бұрын

Gay Crusader. kek.

@AndrewtheLNERA1

4 ай бұрын

???@@jwatson9732

the flying paradox

She's more than a train.

She may be the Flying Moneypit, but i still love her.

Can you make a video about 60163 tornado

@OnlyTheRightTrack

4 ай бұрын

I Will at some point, yeah

Thank god for the national railway museum

What editing software do you use and how to make those thumbnails

@OnlyTheRightTrack

Ай бұрын

I use adobe premiere pro and after effects for editing and photoshop for the thumbnais! A whole lot of adobe haha

Its funny, because i only heard of the flying scottsman only about 10 years ago. Ive heard of so many other engines before this such as, Union pacific, #4014 Aka, B i g b o y Id argue that this loco is more famous Not to mention, the first locomotive to reach 100mph was NYC #999, a 4 4 0 that did the 100mph run in 1893, a full 40 years before the flying scottsman did.

Where did you get the video of flying scotsman derailing in 1995 ?

@OnlyTheRightTrack

4 ай бұрын

That's not actually the video of it derailing (no pics or vids) but it looked enough like it and sold the point i was making

The narration confuses the BR Modernisation Plan of the mid-50's with the Beeching report Reshaping Britain's Railways of the early 60's. Two different plans/reports.

It would be cool if Scotsman reunited with his A4 Cousins. (I'd like to see that tho :]

Tons of Trackmasters but irl

Is this live or it is a normal video? I can’t really tell the difference because I 1. Can comment 2. It’s in the “videos” tab which for me on Mobile doesn’t show live things. So how did you do this?

@OnlyTheRightTrack

4 ай бұрын

It is a youtube premiere! Now just a regular video as the premiere has ended

I Wish Flying Scotsman kept the Number 4472

The Flying Trigger’s Broom

You sound like tons of track master

City of Truro was the first steam locomotive to reach 100 mph

Nice vid, could do without the grain filter

I know who you are tons of Trackmaster

Flying Scotsman is Gordons brother

I’m going to be that guy and say Scotsman was not the first one to hit 100 good video tho

@12crepello

4 ай бұрын

I will........she wasn't!

I have red light

Great video but editing was far too fast

"The first steam engine which went 100mph" City Of Truro:

@DukeOfTrains

4 ай бұрын

Some people say it was a random American engine that broke its rods doing that speed

@yeoldeseawitch

4 ай бұрын

@@DukeOfTrains Lol americans should stick to arguing over which one of their ugly black giants are the most powerful, leave speed for the british and europeans to argue over

@joshslater2426

4 ай бұрын

I’ve always had doubts about that. Americans do love trying to coin achievements, but since No. 999 wasn’t accurately measured we can’t be certain if it did go 100MPH. City of Truro is a similar case. There’s a chance it could’ve got the record, but the lack of validly and measurement means it’s uncertain.

@creamwobbly

4 ай бұрын

The thing about world records is that pesky second word. If it's unrecorded it never happened.

@yeoldeseawitch

4 ай бұрын

@@creamwobbly And that's pretty much the case with every American engine that claims to have beaten the record. From the Milwaukee Road Hudson to the PRR S1

Americans I am so sorry for this accent we don’t all sound like this promise

@OnlyTheRightTrack

4 ай бұрын

What 😭

It almost certainly didn't reach 100mph despite the LNER PR claims. There's a good chance 'City of Truro' did, though, decades before.

City of Truro > Flying Scotsman

That's not how you spell prestige.

The Scotsman or "Flying money pit" to some will continue for years to come now when it's been a pure case of 'Triggers Broom' there's not much left that would still be considered original except wheels some parts of it's running board and it's cab that still has "GCR" stamped on its roof, everything on her is more or less brand new and I think at one point there was a decision that if they had drawn up plans to make a new A3 it wouldn't of cost a lot more then they spent on rebuilding Scotsman. This is most likely why the NRM shot down ideas to put Mallard back into running main line condition as they have been quoted in saying the Mallard is the only A4 left that is close to the original design when compared to other sisters.

Please stop saying the and thee before engine names it brakes the flow and makes it harder to listen to also with how you say about the rebuild it sounds like it only got repainted into Apple green when it was rebuilt. Also Alan went bankrupt a year after the government pulled funding (something not explained well)

I might have enjoyed this video if you backed off the sugar a little and slowed down so a person could enjoy the narration with the footage. Not interested in listening to you!

Whilst this was very informative, can you please slow down your speech delivery. I think you're also editing out the gaps between sentences, and it sounds rushed and unnecessary. Good luck with the channel.

the flashy editing is painful to watch

@yes8444

4 ай бұрын

wrong

@SaxonIVKGames

4 ай бұрын

@@yes8444 i'm really not a fan of the clip changing every few seconds and the weird transitions are not helping

You talk too fast

Narration on this doc is not great... speech is too quick and hard to digest... is it "AI" or someone on steroids? Pity because there is great footage here.