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    The Making of the Flying Scotsman (a phantasmagoria)

    Mar 14, 2023 2 minutes

    © Simon Armitage 2023

    The blueprint came from the future, plans for a spaceship powered by water and coal;

    they fired up the furnace with kindling and oily rags and strong-armed the bellows till the flames sang.

    In went the chainmail and breastplates of knights for the casings, shields for the footplate.

    For the boiler

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