Letting off some steam

LMS Royal Scot Class 7P no 46115 Scots Guardsman passed through Carnoustie today.

I remember seeing it last year and being caught up in a cloud of hot steam! This year I moved to the other side of the bridge before the steam could get me.

The London, Midland and Scottish Railway (LMS) Royal Scot Class is a class of 4-6-0 express passenger locomotive introduced in 1927. Originally having parallel boilers, all members were later rebuilt with tapered type 2A boilers, and were in effect two classes.

Two have been preserved. These are (4)6100 Royal Scot and (4)6115 Scots Guardsman. No. 6100 Royal Scot is owned by Bressingham Steam Museum in Norfolk, and returned to steam for first time in over 20 years at the West Somerset Railway's 2009 spring gala.