The Flying Scotsman Pocket-Book

Richard Harry Norman Hardy worked on Britain's railways for over forty years, serving his apprenticeship at Doncaster Locomotive Works and Running Shed between 1941-44, before becoming a shed master, locomotive engineer, divisional manager at King's Cross and Liverpool stations and an Engineering and Research development adviser. He retired in 1982 with more than 60,000 miles of footplate experience on all classes of LNER, GC and GN engines. Richard is the author of four books and numerous articles, originally writing under the pseudonym of Balmore. He completed two autobiographical works, Steam in the Blood (1971) and Railways in the Blood (1985) as well as biographies of Beeching: Champion of the Railway? (1989), and Bert Hooker: Legendary Railwayman (1994).

Introduction by R.H.N. Hardy
British ‘Pacific’ Locomotives Compared
L.N.E.R. Express Passenger Engine, 4–6–2, Pacific Type, 4472, ‘Flying Scotsman’ British Empire Exhibition Wembley 1924
New Rolling-Stock for Day East Coast Trains, L.N.E.R.
Locomotive Tender With Side Corridor L.N.E.R.
Inaugural King’s Cross–Edinburgh Non-Stop Runs, L.N.E.R.
Spotting the Flying Scotsman
The Permanent Way, Comfort and Curves
On the Flying Scotsman by Eric Gill
A Record L.N.E.R. Run
Working Traffic Of A Double Line Over A Single Line Of Rails During Repairs Or Obstruction
Walschaert’s Valve Gear (Inside Admission)
Signals
Alan Pegler interviewed by Hugh Gould 20th September 2000
Locomotive Practice And Performance ‘Flying Scotsman’
Locomotive Practice And Performance Non-Stop Again!
A ride on the ‘Flying Scotsman’
George Hinchcliffe, Obituary
Fortuitous
Steam in the Blood
‘Flying Scotsman’s’ Australian Marathon
4472: The People’s Engine At Last!
The ‘Flying Scotsman’ – the future