The world-famous steam locomotive entered service on February 24 1923 as it set off on its first journey from the sheds at Doncaster Works.
One hundred years later to the day, following a fresh lick of paint, she arrived at Edinburgh Waverley station where celebrations took place to mark the centenary.
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Poet Laureate Simon Armitage read out a poem called 'The Making Of The Flying Scotsman' to mark the event.
Armitage rode on the locomotive as part of the process of writing the poem, in which he describes how the world-famous steam engine “coughed into life” and features “vast steel circumferences” and “rippling bodywork pouring with sweat”.
He said he was struck by “this incredible coming together of both mechanics and metaphysics”...