YOUR DESTINATION - Surrey Hills
Join us for a round trip through the Surrey Hills, an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.
Often described as 'one of England's finest landscapes', The Surrey Hills stretch across the chalk North Downs.
Often described as 'one of England's finest landscapes', The Surrey Hills stretch across the chalk North Downs.
The grandeur and beauty of these hills embrace an amazing variety of countryside from rolling chalk downs and flower rich grasslands, to acid heaths and woodlands.
Departs-- LONDON VICTORIA @ 18:50, Returns @ 23:30
Premier Dining and Pullman Style Dining passengers will be served a four or five course dinner over the course of the journey.
YOUR LOCOMOTIVE -- 60103 Flying Scotsman has been described as the most famous steam locomotive in the world.
Built in 1923 for the London and North Eastern Railway (LNER) at Doncaster Works to a design of H.N. Gresley, it was employed on long-distance express trains on the LNER and its successors, British Railways Eastern and North-Eastern Regions, notably on the London to Edinburgh Flying Scotsman train service after which it was named.
The locomotive set two world records for steam traction, becoming the first steam locomotive to be officially authenticated at reaching 100 miles per hour (160.9 km/h) on 30 November 1934, and then setting a record for the longest non-stop run by a steam locomotive when it ran 422 miles (679 km) on 8 August 1989 while in Australia.
Retired from regular service in 1963 after covering 2,076,000 miles (3,341,000 km), Flying Scotsman gained considerable fame in preservation under the ownership of Alan Pegler, William McAlpine, Tony Marchington and finally the National Railway Museum (NRM). As well as hauling enthusiast specials in the United Kingdom, the locomotive toured extensively in the United States and Canada (from 1969 to 1973) and Australia (from 1988 to 1989).
To find out more about the Flying Scotsman, go to www.flyingscotsman.org.uk.
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