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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Neil Lancefield

New Simon Armitage poem to mark 100 years of Flying Scotsman

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Poet Laureate Simon Armitage has written a poem to mark 100 years since the locomotive Flying Scotsman first entered service.

His poem describes how the world famous steam engine “coughed into life” featuring “vast steel circumferences” and “rippling bodywork pouring with sweat”.

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