The National Railway Museum in York has announced that it is working alongside the Railway Touring Company and Steam Dreams for the mainline operation of Flying Scotsman. From 2009, a programme of excursions on Flying Scotsman will be on offer throughout Britain.
In the North, these will include the Scarborough Spa Express and a York to Carlisle trip while in the South there will be the Cathedrals Express, which will take in Salisbury, Bath and the Cotswolds.
Exact dates and times have yet to be finalised for the tours of the Scotsman, which is currently undergoing extensive renovations in the workshops of the National Railway Museum.
The third in the spectacular Hunt of the Unicorn series of tapestries being recreated for Stirling Castle is to be unveiled to the public at a special reception on September 27 2007.
Hand woven by weavers from the West Dean Tapestry Studio within the grounds of the castle, the work of art measures 3.45 x 3.30 m (12ft by 14ft) and will hang in the Chapel Royal.
The original Hunt of the Unicorn tapestries dating from 1495-1505 have been on display since 1937 in New York at the Cloisters Museum, which houses the medieval collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The series is widely accepted as some of the finest medieval tapestries in the world.
Tapestry was an integral part of medieval and renaissance interior decoration in the large state rooms and great halls of Scottish Royal residences. It provided decoration and a lavish display of wealth and also kept out the cold and damp. www.24hourmuseum.org.uk
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