FLYING Scotsman is a 4-6-2 Pacific locomotive that was completed in February 1923 at Doncaster Works as the third of 51 ‘A1’ locomotives ordered by the Great Northern Railway prior to the ‘Big Four’ Grouping of January that year. As such, it first carried the identity No. 1472, but was renumbered by the GNR’s successor company the LNER in February 1924 as No. 4472 and given its famous name after the eponymous titled train – which has been a source of confusion ever since!
The RM June 1924