Yeah, it was when they brought in the more standard timetable pattern. In fairness, with the new timetable there was nothing special about the 10am compared to the 9am, 11am, 12 noon, etc, and the named trains really had only existed on paper for a very very long time.
I'm not even sure it had been branded at that point! It existed in the timetable perhaps but I seem to recall one of the reasons the introduction of the southbound was a "big event" was because they were bringing the name back after a fair gap in usage!
I was incorrect post to follow with more info.
With thanks to DP Simulation and their stockpile of old timetables (
here) prior to the May 2011 timetable change (Project Eureka) it appears that the 1000 off Kings Cross was still the northbound Flying Scotsman however it wasn't what I'd describe as "flying"!
King's Cross | 1000 |
Peterborough | 1045 |
York | 1155 |
Darlington | 1226 |
Newcastle | 1257 |
Edinburgh | 1425 |
Whilst southbound it had moved to the 1150 from Glasgow Central:
Glasgow | 1150 |
Motherwell | 1206 |
Haymarket | 1249 |
Edinburgh | 1300 |
Berwick | 1339 |
Newcastle | 1434 |
Darlington | 1502 |
York | 1535 |
Doncaster | 1600 |
Peterborough | 1648 |
King's Cross | 1729 |
Obviously with Eureka it changed to just the southbound at 0540 from Edinburgh with the single call at Newcastle (d 0703) arriving into Kings Cross at 0940 (theoretically!). So, to be fair, it went from being two fairly unremarkable trains to actually being given to a train which is at least a bit out of the ordinary! As an aside the 1000 from Kings Cross also became the Northern Lights and terminated at Aberdeen from the May 2011 timetable.