Flying Scotsman Bbc 4 8:30

[melv16]

We might find out how they spent £4.2m on a locomotive?

[New Judge]

I'm looking forward to it, melv. Hopefully they will expand a bit on my earlier answer on this topic. They might tell you about the severe problems encountered with the boiler and the unforseen problems they came across with the mainframes and running gear of the 90 year old beast. They may also mention the lack of competent project management.

I imagine in 30 mins they will be a bit short on detail. If so there is more detail here:

http://www.rail.co.uk/rail-news/2013/damning-flying-scotsman-report-issued-by-nrm/

The NRM issued a much fuller report in 2012 but I cannot immediately find it.

[melv16]

An elderly friend of mine, who's absolutely mad about railways and steam locomotives says that the national railway museum made a bit of a Horlicks with the FS. BTW, for his 80th birthday he was given a present of driving a steam locomotive. It made an old man very happy.

[wolf63]

Who actually paid for the train to be fixed?

My dad told me that he had driven the Flying Scotsman - possibly he did but who knows?

[New Judge]

The National Railway Museum (the locomotive's owners) footed the bill. The NRM is one of the Science Museum's family.