The National Railway Museum's bold decision to paint Flying Scotsman into wartime black, albeit only for a short time, is noteworthy not only in its own right, but for the fact that nothing similar has happened before. As mentioned in this column in the February issue, the preservation movement as a whole seems to have attempted almost every permutation imaginable in its first half century or so and has provided preserved LNER Pacifies in green, blue and even silver (albeit the latter as a static exhibit). Yet BR purple and wartime black seem, until now, to have been blind spots.
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