- Trainspotters had waited excitedly in position for the famous Flying Scotsman
- But as it approached a level crossing a much faster Virgin Train zoomed by
- All that could be seen was the red and white body of the commuter locomotive
This is the moment excited trainspotters who had waited 90 minutes to glimpse the Flying Scotsman were left disappointed after a Virgin Train blocked their view.
The men had stood excitedly in position waiting for the famous locomotive to trundle past them at a level crossing.
But as it started to approach a much faster Virgin train zoomed by hiding the entirety of the train in East Anglia.
As the Flying Scotsman started to approach a much faster Virgin train zoomed by hiding the entirety of the train in East Anglia
All that could be seen was the red and white body of the Virgin train, with the Flying Scotsman obscured behind it.
The hilarious moment was caught on camera by enthusiast Graham Linay and posted on Twitter where it has racked up hundreds of views.
He joked: ‘Just between you and me, we laughed, what else could we do?’
MailOnline has contacted Virgin Trains for comment.
All that could be seen was the red and white body of the Virgin train, with the Flying Scotsman obscured behind it
The hilarious moment was caught on camera by enthusiast Graham Linay and posted on Twitter where it has racked up hundreds of views
It is not the first time that one of the firm’s locomotives has left trainspotters disappointed.
Last February an enthusiast who drove 50 miles and waited nearly an hour to see the Flying Scotsman suffered the same situation.
Ryan Allen, of Spilsby, Lincolnshire, thought he had set up at the perfect spot next to the East Coast Main Line in the village of Little Bytham.
But he was left bitterly disappointed when a commuter train whizzed by at the exact moment the locomotive passed.
The Flying Scotsman’s incredible engineering prowess was demonstrated when it became the first train to break the 100mph barrier in 1934.
The original Flying Scotsman train service began in Edinburgh in 1862 and still runs today.
Its journey between Edinburgh and London took ten hours and stopped just once – for a half an hour stop for lunch at York.
The National Railway Museum bought the locomotive for £2.3million in 2004 before work got under way on its restoration two years later.
For its restoration, Flying Scotsman was painted in its original livery of British Rail green and had its nameplates have been reattached.