What Steam Train is better Flying Scotsman or The City of Turo?

Question

Or some people would call them steam locomotives. Im talking about witch ones looks better.

Answer 1

City of Truro was thought to have reached 100mph first, but it is rumored that the Great Western kept this a secret as they thought that people may be scared off by it's trains.

Flying Scotsman was the first locomotive to have a corridor tender so it could carry two cab crews and travel none stop from London Kings Cross to Edinburgh Waverly. Flying Scotsman was the first locomotive to actually be proven to have travelled at 100 MPh.

As said, it's just a matter of opinion. However, the Scotsman has recently become very unreliable. Bits of it are all over the UK, for example; it's boiler is in Bury!

Answer 2

First of all, neither are steam 'trains', they are 'steam locomotives' - a train is the whole shebang*. And what do you mean by 'better'? Faster? Bigger? (Scotsman wins that one) Better looking? (IMHO Truro that) Most economical on use of fuel?

As far as I am aware, neither has been pitted against the other - by the time of the locomotive exchanges of 1948 City of Truro was already a very old lady and more modern GWR types took part in those trials.

At the end of the day, it is a matter of opinion.

* it's not 'some people would', laddie. It's a case of the correct use of the English language