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    Massive Cornish welcome for Flying Scotsman ‘first’ visit

    Oct 15, 2018 4 minutes
    By Cedric Johns
    THOMAS MILLS
    NICHOLAS WOOD
    ASHLEY BANFIELD
    PETER HOLLANDS

    DESPITE indifferent morning weather when Flying Scotsman departed Plymouth North Road to begin the A3’s first-ever visit into Cornwall, thousands lined the 78 miles of the testing route across the Duchy to Penzance on Saturday, October 6.

    The extended week of action began on Thursday, October 4, when Flying Scotsman supported by ‘Black Five’No. 44871 and empty stock ran westwards from Southall to Theale and Newbury, where passengers joined the train for a trip to Taunton, returning diesel-hauled.

    Later that day, passengers boarded for the journey from Taunton to Plymouth via Exeter,

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