William McAlpine
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Sir William Hepburn McAlpine, 6th Baronet (born 1936), great grandson of Sir Robert (Concrete Bob) McAlpine, is the current chairman of the Transport Trust, and also the Railway Heritage Trust, and patron of the Clan MacAlpine Society. He was a director of the family construction company, Sir Robert McAlpine. He inherited the baronetcy in 1990 on the death of Sir Robert McAlpine, 5th Baronet.
He is a railway enthusiast, and rescued the LNER Class A3 4472 Flying Scotsman, when its then owner Alan Pegler had problems in America. He maintains a private railway museum at his Buckinghamshire country estate, and an EWS Class 60 loco is named after him.
There is an background article to be found here from an interview given mid 2006
Another older article, from 2004, on the family background appears here
