Timeshift2002

Andrew Martin:
I'm at the Balmoral Hotel in Edinburgh, known to older guests as the North British, after the railway company that built it. The same company built Edinburgh Waverley station... which looks rather like a garden centre from up here. I'm in town to catch the Flying Scotsman, the pride of the East Coast Main Line, the flagship of the London and North Eastern Railway. And look - still here on the timetable today: "FS". You don't need much bigging-up when you're the most famous train in the world.