Guests look on as Flying Scotsman arrives at Doncaster Railway Station, celebrating her centenary by making a return to the city where she was built one hundred years ago, at an event hosted by City of Doncaster Council and London North Eastern Railway (LNER), which also turns 100 this year. Picture date: Friday June 30, 2023. PA Photo. In 1923, the steam locomotive was the first to be built at the Doncaster Works by the then newly formed LNER, costing £7,944 to build, and in its 40-years of service broke numerous world speed and distance records, including being the first locomotive to reach 100mph, and the first to circumnavigate the globe.
Molly Jackson (right) whose father Wilston Samuel Jackson became Britain’s first black train driver in 1962, and her nephews Wilston (left) and Eddie (second left) with the Flying Scotsman, driven by Chris Cubitt, at Doncaster Railway Station, celebrating her centenary by making a return to the city where she was built one hundred years ago, at an event hosted by City of Doncaster Council and London North Eastern Railway (LNER), which also turns 100 this year. Picture date: Friday June 30, 2023. PA Photo. In 1923, the steam locomotive was the first to be built at the Doncaster Works by the then newly formed LNER, costing £7,944 to build, and in its 40-years of service broke numerous world speed and distance records, including being the first locomotive to reach 100mph, and the first to circumnavigate the globe.
Molly Jackson, whose father Wilston Samuel Jackson became Britain’s first black train driver in 1962, and her nephews Eddie (left) and Wilston, with the Flying Scotsman at Doncaster Railway Station, celebrating her centenary by making a return to the city where she was built one hundred years ago, at an event hosted by City of Doncaster Council and London North Eastern Railway (LNER), which also turns 100 this year. Picture date: Friday June 30, 2023. PA Photo. In 1923, the steam locomotive was the first to be built at the Doncaster Works by the then newly formed LNER, costing £7,944 to build, and in its 40-years of service broke numerous world speed and distance records, including being the first locomotive to reach 100mph, and the first to circumnavigate the globe.
