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No. 1472 was the third of a category of steam locomotives that was eventually to amount 79 machines, and didn't originally even carry a name. THE FANTASTIC North Railway A1 4-6-2, though, was the biggest express steam engine ever to acquire been observed in Britain at that time. It was chosen to be viewed at a significant exhibition at Wembley in 1924, and because of this it was given the name Traveling Scotsman. It hauled the London & North Eastern Railway's first King's Cross-to-Edinburgh nonstop exhibit in 1928. It was the first steam engine in the world to officially break the 100mph hurdle. Flying Scotsman has now become the one steam engine in the wonderful world of which everyone knows the name, and which most people even would recognize. It was briefly the one main line steam engine operating in the whole of Britain, and it includes travelled over the Atlantic and across America. It offers circumnavigated the globe, steamed across Australia, cracked the record for a nonstop run with steam (again), and been sold for easily the highest price ever paid for a steam engine. In 2004, its ongoing 40 years of fame finally gained it a place in the National Railway Museum collection and, after an unprecedented fundraising plan and a National Heritage Memorial Fund grant, the museum could clear the great obligations of the engine's then getting company and find Traveling Scotsman for the country, and for a British public which clearly retains the machines in high esteem. If it had not acquired fame, basically therefore of its name, in the 1920s and 1930s, then maybe Alan Pegler wouldn't normally have had the enthusiasm to buy it in 1963. If it had been scrapped, what would then have grown to be Britain's most famous steam engine? And today it's back. No-one expected it to consider 10 years of toil, but the National Railway Museum finally has an engine to be proud of. The legend is that the Traveling Scotsman can run forever.

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