The Azuma train left the city at lunchtime and was met in Darlington by Mallard's sister locomotive, Flying Scotsman. Modelled on the Japanese bullet train, the Azuma runs on the East Coast Main ...

Now it’s time to wait for a flock of greenheads to fly by. Finally, the mid-morning flight picks up, and a group of mallards finish perfectly into the decoys. You drop two drakes out of the flock.

Locomotives are the mighty machines that make trains go! From the earliest steam engines puffing smoke to today’s super-speedy electric trains, locomotives have been powering railways for over 200 ...

Flying Scotsman was one of the stars of the ... Meanwhile, the Gresley-designed and Doncaster-built Mallard hit 126mph (203km/h) in 1938, breaking the world speed record for a steam locomotive.