I was confused at all the fuss not long ago about the Flying Scotsman. Having been a trainspotter (LNER main line) in my sproghood the Flying Scotsman was first and foremost a train, the daily 1x00 departure from Kings Cross to Edinburgh, which was hauled by one of the A-class Pacifics, usually a streamlined A4, sometimes an A1, A2 or A3. All of these had names, one of the A3s was called, confusingly, 'The Flying Scotsman'. It was no different from all the others.