Which London station did the 'Flying Scotsman' depart from on it's daily journey to Edinburgh?
Flying Scotsman (train) Railway (GNR). In 1860 the three companies established the East Coast Joint Stock for through services using common vehicles, and it is from this agreement that the "Flying Scotsman" came about. The first "Special Scotch Express" ran in 1862, with simultaneous departures at 10:00 from the GNR's London King's Cross and the NBR's Edinburgh Waverley. The original journey took hours, including a half-hour stop at York for lunch; however, increasing competition and improvements in railway technology saw this time reduced to hours by the time of the Race to the North in 1888. From 1896, the train was modernised, introducing
Flying Scotsman (train) Scotsman" was used to haul the inaugural non-stop train from London on 1 May 1928, and it successfully ran the 392 miles between Edinburgh and London without stopping, a record at the time for a scheduled service (although the London Midland & Scottish Railway had four days earlier staged a one-off publicity coup by running the "Royal Scot's" Edinburgh section non-stop from Euston - 399.7 miles). The 1928 non-stop "Flying Scotsman" had improved catering and other on-board services - even a barber's shop. With the end of the limited speed agreement in 1932, journey time came down to 7 hours