Flying Scotsman locomotive record

[Trussell]

Does anybody know in which year the steam locomotive "The Flying Scotsman" set a record of 8hrs 3 mins for the London/Edinburgh journey, please?

All the sites I've googled have conflicting times and years.


Would be very grateful to receive some help on this one please.

[Buenchico]

The National Rail Museum ought to know. They give the year as 1928 in this worksheet from their education service:
http://www.nrm.org.uk/education/documents/NRM% 20NL%20flying%20scotsman.pdf

That date is consistent with the information on their main web pages, dedicated to the Flying Scotsman, which confirm that non-stop running between London & Edinburgh commenced in that year.

Chris

[spudqueen]

8hrs and 3 mins seems an awful long time to get from London to Edinburgh. Are you sure this is a record? Mallard holds the record of the fastest speed of a steam engine, something like 126mph. It wouldn't take long to get from London to Edinburgh at that speed!

[Trussell]

Thank you very much Buenchico. I had googled many pages re FS but not found that definite statement, although i had read much of 'Grandad's reminiscences'.

spudqueen - the question was not, 'what is the record for the L/E journey, but 'when did the FS set the record at that particular time'. Thank you for making sure I had the correct question/answer.

[dzug]

126mph was for a short sprint, downhill, on straight track. No way could Mallard keep that up for long, uphill, round curves or even on the flat.

[sddsddean]

In fact Mallards driver knew he had to back off as he could smell the wheel bearings over heating. I think I'm right in saying that Mallard then had a complete overhaul lasting a couple of months to repair the damage done by the record.