Transforming a Train into Cufflinks
Written by James Matthews
BRITAIN’S most famous steam engine, the Flying Scotsman, is being turned into cufflinks.
Bronze parts replaced during a major overhaul at the National Railway Museum in York are being recast into jewelery, as well as a sculpture of the 83-year-old iconic locomotive.
The scrap comes from the train’s firebox, boiler and axle-box and is believed by NRM engineers to have been fitted in a previous overhaul during the 1940s.
The Flying Scotsman service began between Edinburgh Waverley and London Kings Cross in 1862, and in the 1930s the locomotive could make the journey in seven hours and 20 minutes.
The £150 cufflinks show the driver’s cab, complete with driver peering from his window above the trademark number “4472″.
The pieces are all designed by York-based sculptor Stephen Allen, a railway enthusiast whose father was a fireman for the LNER railway company which first operated the Flying Scotsman.
Profits from the sale will fund continuing restoration work on the locomotive.
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