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Under The Arches - Featuring Flying Scotsman

  A look at the street art and graffiti under the arches of Stanford Viaduct just outside Loughborough , the urban elements contrasting with the surrounding countryside and grand arches. After exploring the various colourful designs, we see perhaps the biggest contrast as past collides with present, and the Flying Scotsman steam locomotive makes its stately way across the viaduct, completing a tranquil scene of the river and a paddle-boarder, mixing time periods like a lord of time . 

Tornado And Flying Scotsman Double Header

  Tornado 60163 And Flying Scotsman 60103 locomotives pass through Loughborough station on their way to the ​⁠. With the iconic Brush transformers factory frontage visible behind them the two locomotives travel through double headed and join the regular rail traffic through the station to the surprise and delight of Friday evening commuters. We later catch up with them on the Stanford Viaduct pulled by a Red DB Class 66 " Martins House ".

Desford Scarecrow Festival 2019 - Best Of British

The annual Desford scarecrow festival (one of the biggest in the country) returned in 2019 with a theme of Best Of British, celebrating everything great about Great Britain from comedy to classic TV and everything in between. Look out for a host of Aardman Animations characters, The England 1966 world cup winners and a model Flying Scotsman steam train that actually smokes from its chimney !.