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Flying Scotsman » The Flying Scotsman Story Exhibition » Transcript

Transcript of Exhibition Progress Film: Stephen Richards introduces the Flying Scotsman Exhibition.

DESCRIPTION: In the following video Stephen Richards, Head of Creative Development at he National Railway Museum, describes preparations for the forthcoming Flying Scotsman Story Exhibition. The film includes archive footage of trains on the East Coast Main Line in the 1930s and Flying Scotsman running between York and Scarborough in 2005. Also included is film of Flying Scotsman being prepared at the NRM and construction work for the Flying Scotsman Story Exhibition.

STEPHEN RICHARDS: I’m sitting in the Warehouse which is going to be the location of the new Flying Scotsman Story Exhibition. This exhibition is about the route, the journey and the locomotive and will be told through stories of people who were involved in all three.

The Flying Scotsman service started in 1862 when a train left London at ten o’clock, and a train left Edinburgh at ten o’clock.

The reason the exhibition is located in the Warehouse is because the NRM wants to run Flying Scotsman as a live exhibit. The Warehouse is a space which allows the locomotive to be taken out of the exhibition very easily and it’s also located next to the preparation area which is where the Flying Scotsman will be prepared before and after it’s been on a mainline run. The exhibition will allow visitors to see inside the prep area at stages when the locomotive is actually housed there.

Four months ago this space was packed with objects. To position the exhibition in this area we needed to clear the space. What we haven’t done is lost any of the small objects and the Warehouse really is as it was. The thing that we have done is removed all the vehicles.

You can see behind me that construction work is going on to build a platform. This platform will allow all the visitors who come into the Flying Scotsman Exhibition the opportunity to access the locomotive, to access the Gresley Buffet Car which is going to be on display, and to actually walk through the exhibition.

This platform is the first stage of construction for the exhibition and it’s taken about three weeks to get to this point. Now in another two weeks that platform will be finished and the next section of the exhibition will then be built on top of the platform.

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