The East Lancashire Railway has announced that it will be welcoming Flying Scotsman to Bury for a series of passenger trains in 2021.
Flying Scotsman will be visiting the line from the 2nd April 2021 until the 6th April 2021.
Prices for the trains range from £19 for an adult and £12 for a child, and tickets must be booked in advanced.
The Ex-LNER A3 will also be hauling selected Dining With Distinction trains, though these are already sold out.
The timetable for the event has already been released and is available to view by clicking here.
To book tickets for the ELR visit, please click here to visit their website.
60103 Flying Scotsman appears thanks to Riley & Son E Ltd, and the National Railway Museum.
Since returning to passenger service in 2016, Flying Scotsman has made trips to various heritage railways, such as the Keighley and Worth Valley Railway and Swanage Railway, as well as hauling a number of tours.
Why not find out more about Flying Scotsman in our popular ‘Sole Survivor' – click here for more information.
The featured image for this article is of Flying Scotsman at Irwell Vale and is from the RailAdvent Collection.
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Heritage Railways are a form of public transport and with prebooking ;social distancing and covid 19 track & trace are guaranteed.
Therefore why have all these railways had to close down in the latest Lockdown as many provide a valuble form of public transport to the local population?
Because heritage railways get a lot of fuinding from stating that they are museums, rather than public transport operators and museums have been told to close as they are non-essential.
If they were purely transport operators they’d be able to run – but they’d not be able to get the heritage funds and would be required to meet the same ORR standards as main line operators. The movement can’t have it both ways.