Go back to article: Flying Scotsman: modernity, nostalgia and Britain’s ‘cult of the past’

Figure 1

The Flying Scotsman steam train on the tracks at London Kings Cross station

© National Railway Museum/Science & Society Picture Library

Flying Scotsman at King’s Cross Station, London, on 14 January 1963 before her final run under British Railways ownership. The locomotive’s appearance has changed greatly from her 1920s and 1930s heyday.

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.15180/160507/011