| 单词 | flying scotsman |
| 释义 | > as lemmasFlying Scotsman 2. In full Flying Scotsman. A daily express train service between London King's Cross and Edinburgh Waverley stations. Also: an LNER steam locomotive of Sir Nigel Gresley's A3 Pacific design, once used on this service and in preservation since 1963. Cf. wild Irishman n. 3, Flying Scotchman at Scotchman n. 5.The service first ran in 1862, its official name being the Special Scotch Express. ΘΚΠ society > travel > rail travel > rolling stock > [noun] > train > passenger train > express or non-stop > specific Flying Dutchman1813 Scotsman1871 Flying Scotchman1872 Orient Express1883 Twentieth Century1902 Royal Scot1927 Rheingold1928 Red Arrow1934 trans-Siberian1939 TEE1963 1871 Lloyd's Weekly Newspaper 22 Oct. 8/3 The express train from King's Cross, known as the Flying Scotsman, due in Newcastle-on-Tyne at five o'clock, met with a serious accident on Thursday evening. 1879 G.N.R. Tourist-guide 1 The splendid express known as the ‘Flying Scotsman’. 1932 P. Bloomfield Imaginary Worlds 34 Pretending..that our O gauge railway round the nursery floor is really the line taken by the ‘Flying Scotsman’. 1936 J. Masefield Let. from Pontus 57 On the railway beside us the Scotsman went by. 1962 C. H. Ellis Flying Scotsman i. 11 The Special Scotch Express sooner or later became the ‘Flying Scotch Express’, which in turn was transformed into ‘Flying Scotchman’ and later still, probably when English people began to read Robert Louis Stevenson, into ‘Flying Scotsman’. That eventually became the official title. 1974 Times 7 Dec. 3/2 The Flying Scotsman..the majestic old LNER puffer... The Flying Scotsman..is at present stabled steamless at Carnforth. 2005 Sunday Tel. (Sydney) (Nexis) 15 May 40 The Flying Scotsman train runs daily from London's Kings Cross station to Edinburgh's Waverley station; prices vary depending on times and fare-savers. < as lemmas |
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