ONE hundred years to the day it moved for the first time out of Doncaster Works to enter LNER traffic as the first of Nigel Gresley’s Pacifics, A3 No. 60103 Flying Scotsman, complete with support coach, appeared at a special celebratory birthday event at Edinburgh Waverley station.
Organised by the National Railway Museum, the event was off-limits to the general public and had not been publicly announced – unlike its centenary launch at King’s Cross on October 14 (as highlighted in issue 299)
