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Watch: Nostalgic 1974 Blue Peter report on Flying Scotsman’s journey from York

Fri 30 Apr

Flying Scotsman leaves York in 1974. Photograph: BBC

Fri 30 Apr 2021  @ 6:44am
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Ah, the memories!

One of the latest films to be released by the BBC from its Yorkshire archive takes us back to a time of power cuts, flares and Valerie Singleton on Blue Peter.

“York is railway mad,” says Valerie, in a report from the children’s show first broadcast in 1974.

“It’s one of the few places to allow steam-hauled specials. Today the Flying Scotsman is heading to Scarborough.

“Even in this York is keen to keep its past alive.”

So wallow in some unashamed nostalgia – and look out for the fabulous aerial footage of the locomotive steaming through North Yorkshire.


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