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LNER Class A3 4472 Flying Scotsman

LNER A1 and A3 4472 Flying Scotsman is a British steam locomotive. It is a LNER Class A3 locomotive, and has a 4-6-2 wheel configuration. It was built in 1923, during the Interwar period in the aftermath of World War 1 from 1918-1939. It was originally built as an LNER Class A1 Pacific in 1923 and it was rebuilt in 1947 as a A3 Pacific after World War 2 ended in 1945. It was withdrawn in 1963 and later preserved and saved from being scrapped during the Cold War.

Flying Scotsman
Flying Scotsman on the West Somerset Railway on 11 September 2017 in BR green livery with prominent German-style smoke deflectors and double chimney.
Power type Steam
Designer Nigel Gresley
Builder Doncaster Works
Build date February 1923 (built as A1) 1947 (rebuilt as A3)
Configuration 4-6-2
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Driver diameter 80 in (2,032 mm) diameter
Length 70 ft (21.34 m)
Height 13 ft (3.96 m)
Locomotive weight 96.25 long tons (97.79 t; 107.80 short tons)
Cylinders 3
Tractive effort
  • as built: 29,835 lbf (132.71 kN)
  • as A3: 32,910 lbf (146.39 kN)
Official name Flying Scotsman
Retired 15 January 1963
Restored 1968, 1996, 2016
Current owner National Railway Museum

LNER Class A3 4472 Flying Scotsman Media

  • Flying Scotsman being prepared for the 1924 British Empire Exhibition

  • Flying Scotsman in 1928, with its corridor tender

  • Flying Scotsman ready for its US tour in 1969

  • Flying Scotsman at Fisherman's Wharf, San Francisco, March 1972

  • Flying Scotsman at Carnforth MPD in 1982 with original single chimney and without the smoke deflectors

  • Flying Scotsman at Seymour railway station, Australia in 1989 equipped with electric lighting and air brakes for operation on Australian railways

  • Flying Scotsman in 1994, wearing its British Railways livery and numbering, equipped with double chimney and smoke deflectors

  • A merged view of the Flying Scotsman A3 Pacific locomotive number 4472, photgraphed at the Rail200 Railfest at the National Railway Museum in York, 2 June 2004

  • At Leamington Spa in October 2005, shortly before its 10-year restoration

  • The frames and wheelset in the NRM workshops in 2009

Other websites

  Media related to LNER Class A3 4472 Flying Scotsman at Wikimedia Commons

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