Irish Examiner
Paul Kelly, Consumer Correspondent
21st January 2008" .......... One of the latest such serial magazines is The Flying Scotsman Locomotive series, which week by week contains parts so buyers can build a model of the famous locomotive piece by piece.
Priced at about =807.50, buyers have to purchase an issue every week for two-and-a-half years at a total cost of =80937 before they finish building the model locomotive.
But for about =80180 they could buy a Hornby model railway set featuring the Flying Scotsman locomotive, three carriages as well as track and a power transformer.
The train, the first steam locomotive in the world to reach 100 miles per hour, was built in 1923 at a cost of =A37,944 (sterling) =97 equal to the cost of 13 week-by-week models of the Flying Scotsman today. "