The Railway Magazine

Continental elegance on rails

SELECTING a single titled train to represent each of the ‘Big Four’ would be an invidious task, but assuming that ‘The Flying Scotsman’ would win the LNER section, the general consensus for the others would probably result in ‘The Royal Scot’, ‘The Cornish Riviera’ and, for the Southern… the ‘Golden Arrow’.

The ’Arrow’

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