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Figure 3

Black and white photograph of the Flying Scotsman steam train on display in the 1920s

© National Railway Museum/Science & Society Picture Library

Flying Scotsman first came to public attention at the British Empire Exhibition at Wembley in 1924.

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.15180/160507/007