Flying Scotsman's first five-hour journey from London to York after a £4.2million refit

 

The Flying Scotsman -  10 Facts About the legendary locomotive

 

The Flying Scotsman, an A3 Pacific class locomotive, was originally built in 1923 for the London and North East Railway.

It was designed by Sir Nigel Gresley and has been in the public eye since it first went into service, having been on display at the British Empire Exhibition the following year.

The Flying Scotsman took eight hours to complete the trip between London and Edinburgh and in 1934 was officially credited with becoming the first steam locomotive to be clocked at 100 miles an hour.

It holds a second record for the longest non-stop run of 422 miles when it was in Australia.

The locomotive weighs about 100 tons.

Flying Scotsman has covered around 2,500,000 miles in its long career.

It had five numbers, 1472, 4472, 502, 103 and 60103.

Doncaster railway works is where the engine was built.

The Flying Scotsman took eight hours to cover the 392 miles between London and Edinburgh.

At one stage it had a tender with a corridor to enable crew changes during the Edinburgh trip.

 

The Flying Scotsman left an incredible trail of steam outside Arsenal FC's Emirates Stadium as it roared past the north London football ground

Trainspotters were covered in steam at King's Cross station as the steam engine, taking 297 passengers to York, departed from the capital

 

The National Railway Museum bought the Flying Scotsman for £2.3million in 2004 and have spent a decade restoring it to former glories

 

The iconic train has been painted in its original livery of British rail green to mark the completion of the decade-long refit

The Flying Scotsman was built in Doncaster, South Yorkshire, in 1923 and soon became the star locomotive of the British railway system, pulling the first train to break the 100mph barrier in 1934.

The locomotive has been refurbished after the NRM, in York, bought it for £2.3 million in 2004 before work got under way in 2006.