Flying Scotsman to make a third trip

The Flying Scotsman locomotive will add a third trip when it returns to Scotland in May.

Tickets go on sale at 9am today for the excursions from Edinburgh on 20 May.

The third annual visit by the locomotive since its restoration will see it again haul the Cathedrals Express over the Forth Bridge and round the Fife Circle.

But three-time operator Steam Dreams has pledged to make the visits annual events after carrying nearly 800 passengers during last year’s two trips.