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I didn't realise one paid to trainspot. Things happen....tough. From Coventry Live, via MSNRail enthusiasts were left seething after their view of the Flying Scotsman at Nuneaton Railway Station was blocked out by a domestic train on the platform next door. Dozens of people gathered at the station this morning (June 10) to get a glimpse of the iconic train as it stopped off on its steam-powered journey from London Euston to Chester.
But the overwhelming majority of people huddled together at the station saw nothing of the world-famous locomotive when it called in shortly before 9.40am. Nuneaton resident Steve Creagh said the whole experience was incredibly disappointing.
"It's an absolute shocker," he told CoventryLive. "A steward said the other train would be moving on in a few minutes, but it never did. The Flying Scotsman passed out before the domestic train so hardly anyone got to see it."
"I could not believe it," the 60-year-old added. "You'd have thought the organisers would have made sure no other trains pulled up at the same time. They knew what time the Flying Scotsman was arriving."
Steve said around 80 per cent of the people who had been asked to congregate on platform one were unable to see past the other train. "Only those who were right at the far end would have seen anything of it," he said.
"It was just so disappointing. Luckily for me I hadn't travelled far, but some of those at the station had probably made a big effort to be there. I love trains and train travel, but I wouldn't describe myself as a 'nerd' or a 'trainspotter'.
"I just thought this was an occasion worth jumping in the car for to get pictures for posterity. Obviously that wasn't possible in the end. I can't get my head around it."
Steve questioned why the domestic train driver wasn't told to depart the station and to wait further down the track. Steve attempted to make his way down to platform two, but was told access was restricted to people with tickets for trains arriving there.
After scrambling to a different vantage point, Steve was able to get a view of the train trundling off in the distance, leaving a trail of steam in its wake. "There were people there with really expensive cameras intending on taking lots of great pictures," he added. "But they got nothing. It's extraordinary, really."
"The other train was not supposed to be there," Nigel Branston said. "A lot of people there were very unhappy."
The National Railway Museum, owners of the Flying Scotsman, and West Midlands Trains which operates Nuneaton Railway Station, was approached for comment. |
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« Reply #1 on: June 11, 2023, 12:47:24 » |
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It is, as the man said, a shocker. I think they should shunt all the domestic trains into sidings and tell paying passengers to stay at home whenever a train with the historic and cultural significance of the Flying Scotsman ventures onto the tracks, personally.
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« Reply #2 on: June 11, 2023, 13:05:03 » |
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This rail enthusiast is also seething. Another news item about Flying Scotsman liberally peppered with spurious definite articles.  I am also reminded of this. https://youtu.be/kBBK2hjcPuA |
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« Reply #3 on: June 11, 2023, 13:09:22 » |
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... a train with the historic and cultural significance of the Flying Scotsman ...
What exactly IS the historic and cultural significance of that particular locomotive? isn't it just a really good piece of marketing, much more significance attachable to Puffing Billy, The Rocket, Firefly, Fenchurch, Lord of the Isles, King Charles III, Mallard, Braunton, Britannia, Evening Star, Royal Scots Grey |
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« Reply #4 on: June 11, 2023, 14:35:06 » |
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…and City of Truro.
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« Reply #5 on: June 11, 2023, 14:49:13 » |
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or indeed - William Dean
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« Reply #6 on: June 11, 2023, 15:15:47 » |
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This rail enthusiast is also seething. Another news item about Flying Scotsman liberally peppered with spurious definite articles. ..................43 minutes after the original post - you're slowing down!!!  |
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« Reply #7 on: June 11, 2023, 22:11:12 » |
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I was as luck would have it,able to see Flying Scotsman Twice last week ,both times at Pilning,in the down passing loop on the way to Cardiff and at a fair lick through platform one on the way back later in the day, a reasonable number of people turned out both times they were well behaved and it was good to see staff from both GWR▸ and a MoM from NR» in attendance ,no problems with scheduled services interfering with the view.
My thanks to Jay Mac for his reminder.
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« Reply #8 on: June 11, 2023, 22:28:50 » |
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An old schoolfriend of mine was on this Flying Scotsman hauled railtour from Euston to Chester. He's just posted to Facebook about his journey. He used the definite article three times. Should I unfriend him?  |
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« Reply #9 on: June 11, 2023, 23:34:29 » |
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An old schoolfriend of mine was on this Flying Scotsman hauled railtour from Euston to Chester. He's just posted to Facebook about his journey. He used the definite article three times. Should I unfriend him? Well… you could invite him to a weekend away in The Gower to discuss it, or maybe just get him to watch this vid: https://youtu.be/qmVnr7rsWrE |
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« Reply #10 on: June 14, 2023, 09:44:23 » |
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I well remember a letter in the Plymouth Herald years ago from an irate grandmother in Ivybridge after a Flying Scotsman visit who complained that the train had passed through Ivybridge station too fast and that the loco was putting out black smoke, not white. She thought it was a disgrace.
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« Reply #11 on: June 14, 2023, 16:14:35 » |
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In years to come that will probably be considered a very good historic record of a 9 car 159 formation…  |
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« Reply #12 on: June 14, 2023, 17:41:42 » |
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Who can I write to about the trees?  |
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« Reply #13 on: June 14, 2023, 20:52:45 » |
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Who can I write to about the trees? They look like the three that I saw flying low a few miles south of Crewkerne yesterday afternoon. |
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« Reply #14 on: June 14, 2023, 20:55:32 » |
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They were the trio of Hercules planes make a farewell tour over the UK▸ today.
To be fair I did get shots unencumbered with foliage.
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