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Flying Scotsman number changed?
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trash80
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60103, number it carried in British Railways days.
sprinterguy
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Additionally, "Flying Scotsman" was 4472 in LNER days: 4492 was one of the batch of five streamlined A4s built to work the "Coronation", named "Dominion of New Zealand".
edwin_m
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The LNER did a wholesale re-numbering in (according to Wikipedia) 1946, when the Pacifics took the lowest numbers with the A4s starting at 1. BR then simply added 60000 to these "new" numbers.
blackfive460
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It started life with the GNR number 1472 when built in 1923 and as the LNER had still to come up with a numbering scheme carried that number until it was renumbered 4472 and named in 1924.
In the post war LNER renumbering scheme of 1946 it briefly became 502 but soon changed to 103.
Finally BR renumbered it to 60103 after nationalisation.
In the post war LNER renumbering scheme of 1946 it briefly became 502 but soon changed to 103.
Finally BR renumbered it to 60103 after nationalisation.
GrimsbyPacer
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Shouldn't it also have a TOPS class 98 number?
markindurham
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She does. 98872, iirc
sidmouth
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sidmouth
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Nice site, full of GNR info.
Thanks. And any questions he will have the answer!
Ps he jointly wrote the Stirling Single's book and many of the RCTS series on the locomotives of the LNER.
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