The Flyng Scotsman #2

The Flying Scotsman has a little bit of family history for me. My granddad, on my dads side, used to be a fireman on the railways back in the days of steam. He kept the Flying Scotsman fired at Stockton depot while it was waiting for a minor repair of some sort. Many years later we chipped together for a Hornby 'OO' gauge Flying Scotsman train set which was a surprise birthday (or was it Christmas?) present which he was over the moon with. Grandad has since passed on but there are many happy memories of his stories from his time on the railways and visiting the North Yorkshire Moors Railway, Goathland has been used as filming locations for TV's "Heartbeat" and in the first Harry Potter film Goathland station was Hogsmeade Station where they get off the train.
After a 10 year overhaul, the Flying Scotsman is visiting the NYMR for a week so my dad and I took the Northern Rail service train to Grosmont to see it back in action. We got to Grosmont in time to see the FS pull in. We then decided, seeing as the station was jam packed, to walk a little way along the Rail Trail past the engine sheds to watch as it left for Pickering.

We then walked back to Grosmont to see a DMU that was due in.

Then we went to the engine sheds and had a look around the shop (where I got an N gauge restaurant carriage for £8, a bargain!) and saw some work being carried out on a couple of engines. Then a loco & Steam top n tailed train passed by.

After a spot of lunch we went back to the other end of the tunnel to wait for the Flying Scotsman to return from Pickering to Grosmont.

We then caught the train home back to Teesside.

The Flying Scotsman