The Flying Scotsman, the first steam train in the world to reach 100 miles an hour, has rolled and whistled its way into Edinburgh's Waverely train station as it turns 100 years old. The iconic locomotive first left Doncaster Works on February 24, 1923, and was named Flying Scotsman a year later at the British Empire Exhibition in Wembley, explains Judith McNicol, the Director of the National Railway Museum. The train was the first to go non-stop from London to Edinburgh and has also traveled around the world, visiting America and Australia. Poet Laureate, Simon Armitage, who was in Edinburgh for the engine's arrival, says the Flying Scotsman represents the "coming together of mechanics and magic". "There's something very dreamlike about the whole thing," he says, "it's a big, filthy, noisy, messy beast as well as being very beautiful and very powerful." IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES