The Flying Scotsman, pulled by the London & North Eastern Railway A3 class 4-6-2 locomotive number 4475 Flying Fox, leaving King's Cross station, about 1930. The Flying Scotsman left King's Cross for Edinburgh every morning at 10.00 am. The non stop journey took around seven hours. The name was also used for the A3 class locomotive, No 4472, now in the National Railway Museum collection