Which steam trains go to Cornwall 2023?

Sunday 30th July 2023 The 'Royal Duchy' provides an opportunity to visit the famed Royal Duchy of Cornwall by steam train. Highlights of the day will be the steam hauled journey from Bristol along the famous Dawlish sea wall and over the south Devon banks to Plymouth.



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The historic Flying Scotsman train will be coming to Cornwall this weekend as part of its centenary year celebrations. The record-breaking steam train, first built in 1923, will be making a trip from Bristol Temple Meads to Par on Sunday, April 30.

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During 2023, as well as days out on the mainline, Flying Scotsman can be seen at free static events at the National Railway Museum and other locations. The iconic loco will also be in action at a number of heritage railways around the UK and at Locomotion in Shildon.

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The Flying Scotsman will be travelling through Surrey on a return trip from London Victoria to Portsmouth on June 17, 2023. She will depart at 8.45am at London Victoria station, arriving at Portsmouth Harbor at 12.15pm.

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Belmond Royal Scotsman departs Edinburgh Waverley Station and travels north across the Firth of Forth over the magnificent Forth Railway Bridge. Afternoon tea is served as you journey through the former Kingdom of Fife.

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The train was retired from regular service in 1963. Since then the locomotive has toured the U.S. and Australia and continued to run special train trips in the U.K. until it was acquired by the National Railway Museum in York, which in recent years undertook a costly project to restore it.

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LONDON (AP) — Several people were injured after the Flying Scotsman, the historic steam locomotive that's celebrating its 100th anniversary this year, was involved in a low-speed crash with another heritage train in the Scottish Highlands, authorities said Saturday.

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