Flying Scotsman makes a visit to Taunton

The train departed Bristol Temple Meads in the morning and stopped to pick up more passengers at Yatton and Taunton on its way to Cornwall.

Keen photographers and train spotters picked up vantage points of the train as it made its way through the county town.

This video, contributed by Tone FM, captures the train racing by as it comes in to Taunton.

The journey that the Flying Scotsman is doing is to celebrate the landmark anniversary of the express passenger train.

Normally found at the National Railway Museum in York, on special occasions it travels on the East Lancashire Railway (ELR) line. 

Almost immediately after leaving Taunton the train tackled the climb to Whiteball Summit.

The locomotive will also stop at Exeter St. David’s station to take on water and for more passengers to join the train.

The 96-ton Flying Scotsman, now owned by the National Railway Museum and operated and maintained by Riley & Son (E) Ltd, was designed by Sir Nigel Gresley and built in the Doncaster railway works.

According to the Railway Museum it was innovative for its time, boasting a corridor to allow the driver and fireman to walk through the carriages so crews could swap mid-journey without stopping the train.

Unveiled in February 1923, a decade later it became the first locomotive to officially reach speeds of 100mph.