List of named passenger trains of the United Kingdom

This article contains lists of named passenger trains in the United Kingdom. These are specific regular journeys identified by a special name in the timetable, not to be confused with the names of engines or individual physical train rakes. One-off charter and sporadic special trains are not included.

List

Train name	Company/ies	Journey endpoints	Dates operated
21st Century Limited [1] [2]	Grand Central	London King's Cross – Sunderland (one way only)	2008 [2] – 2010[ citation needed ]
Aberdonian [3] [4] [5]	BR Serco	Aberdeen – London King's Cross (sleeper service - later Night Aberdonian) [6]	1927 – ?2012 Jan – Mar 2016
Aberdonian	BR	Aberdeen – London King's Cross (daytime InterCity 125 service)	?1977 – 1994
Admiraal de Ruijter	BR / NS	London Liverpool Street – Harwich Parkeston Quay – ferry – Hoek van Holland Haven – Amsterdam Centraal	1987 – 1989
Antwerp Continental (boat train)	LNER	London Liverpool Street – Harwich Parkeston Quay – Harwich Town [7]	? – 1954
Armada [8]	GWR	London Paddington – Plymouth	? – present
Atlantic Coast Express [9] [10] [11] [12]	SR / BR	London Waterloo – Plymouth, Ilfracombe, Sidmouth, Exmouth, Bude, Padstow, Torrington	1926 – 1948 – 1964
Atlantic Coast Express [8]	GWR	London Paddington – Newquay	2008 – present
Belfast Boat Express (boat train) [13]	BR	Manchester Victoria – Heysham and Morecambe	? – 1960 – 1975
Benjamin Britten [14]	BR / NS	London Liverpool Street – Harwich Parkeston Quay – ferry – Hoek van Holland Haven – Amsterdam Centraal	1987 – 1989 [15]
Birmingham Pullman [i] [16]	BR	London Paddington – Wolverhampton Low Level	1960 – 1966
Bon Accord [17]		Aberdeen – Glasgow Buchanan Street	1949 – 1968
Bournemouth Belle (Pullman train) [16]	SR / BR	London Waterloo – Bournemouth Central/Bournemouth West	1931 – 1967
Brighton Belle (Pullman train) [16]	SR / BR	London Victoria – Brighton	1934 – 1972
Brighton Limited (Pullman train)	LBSCR		1887 – 1908
Brighton Pullman Limited (Pullman train) [18]			1898 – 1908
Bristol Pullman (Pullman train) [16] [i]	BR	London Paddington – Bristol Temple Meads	1960 – 1973
Bristolian [19]	GWR (original) / BR / GWR	London Paddington – Bristol Temple Meads non-stop [20] (original); London Paddington to Weston-super-Mare (current)	1935 – present
Broadsman [21] [22]	BR	London Liverpool Street – Cromer and Sheringham	1950 – 1962
Caledonian [23]		Glasgow Central – London Euston	1957 – 1964
Caledonian Sleeper (night train)	InterCity West Coast / ScotRail (British Rail) / ScotRail (National Express) / First ScotRail / Caledonian Sleeper	London Euston – Edinburgh Waverley London Euston – Aberdeen London Euston – Fort William London Euston – Glasgow Central London Euston – Inverness	1996 – present
Cambrian Coast Express [24]	GWR (original) / BR	London Paddington (later London Euston) – Aberystwyth London Paddington – Pwllheli	1927 – 1991
Capitals Limited [11]	BR	London King's Cross – Aberdeen (non-stop London King's Cross to Edinburgh Waverley)	1949 – 1952 (succeeded by Elizabethan )
Capitals United Express [25]		London Paddington – Cardiff Central London Paddington – Fishguard Harbour	1956 – 1963
Capitals United [8]	GWR	London Paddington – Swansea	2010 – present
Carmarthen Bay Express	GWR	London Paddington – Tenby	1927 [26] – ????
Carolean Express [27]	LNER	London King's Cross – Edinburgh Waverley	May 2023 – present
Cathedrals Express [28]	BR / GWR	London Paddington – Oxford – Hereford	1957 – present
Cheltenham Spa Express (also known as The Cheltenham Flyer) [29]	GWR (original) / BR / GWR	London Paddington – Cheltenham Spa	1929 – present
Clansman [6]	BR	Inverness – London Euston via Birmingham New Street	1974 [30] – 1984
Comet [11] [31] [32]	BR	London Euston – Manchester London Road	1949 [33] – 1962
Cornish Riviera Express [10] [11]	GWR (original) / BR / GWR	London Paddington – Penzance	1904 – present
Cornish Scot [34]	BR / Virgin CrossCountry	Glasgow Central – Penzance	1987 – 2002
Cornishman	GWR (original)	London Paddington – Penzance	1890 – 1904 1935 – 1936
Cornishman [35]	BR	(Bradford Exchange) – Wolverhampton Low Level – Penzance and Kingswear	1951 – 1975
Cornishman	BR	Edinburgh Waverley – Penzance	1983 – 2002
Cornishman [8]	GWR	London Paddington – Penzance	2006 – present
Coronation [36]	LNER	London King's Cross – Edinburgh Waverley	1937 – 1939
Coronation Scot	LMS	Glasgow Central – London Euston	1937 – 1939
Cotswolds and Malvern Express	GWR (original) / BR / Wales & West / GWR	Bristol Temple Meads – Great Malvern London Paddington – Hereford	May 1884 – May 1997 [37] June 2024 – present [38]
Day Continental (boat train)	LNER / BR	London Liverpool Street – Harwich Parkeston Quay	1946 [39] – 1987 (succeeded by Benjamin Britten) [15]
Devon Belle [11] (Pullman train)	SR / BR	London Waterloo – Ilfracombe London Waterloo – Plymouth	1947 – 1954
Devon Express [8]	GWR	London Paddington – Paignton	? – present
Devon Scot [40]	BR / Virgin CrossCountry	Aberdeen – Carlisle – Plymouth	1988 – 2002
Devonian [31] [41]	LMS / BR	Bradford Forster Square (Bradford Exchange from 1967; Leeds from 1980) – Sheffield Midland – Bristol Temple Meads (winter) – Paignton (summer)	1927 – 2002
Dorset Scot [42]	BR / Virgin CrossCountry	Poole – Newcastle – Edinburgh Waverley	1990 – 2002
East Anglian	LNER / BR / Anglia / National Express East Anglia / Abellio Greater Anglia	London Liverpool Street – Norwich	1937–present
The Easterling [22]	BR	London Liverpool Street – Lowestoft and Yarmouth South Town	1950 – 1958
The Elizabethan [4] [5] [11] (summer only)	BR	London King's Cross – Edinburgh Waverley (non-stop) [ii]	1953 – 1964
Emerald Isle Express [43]		London Euston – Llandudno and Holyhead	1954 – 1960 – 1975; 1993 – 1997
Enterprise	GNR(I) / UTA+CIÉ / NIR+IÉ	Belfast Grand Central (Belfast Great Victoria Street from 1947 to 1976, Belfast Central from 1976 to 2018, and Belfast Lanyon Place from 2018 to 2024) & Dublin Connolly	1947–present
Essex Coast Express [44]	BR	London Liverpool Street – Clacton	1958 – 1968 [45]
The European [46]		Edinburgh Waverley and Glasgow Central – Harwich Parkeston Quay	1983 – 1988
Fair Maid [4]		London King's Cross – Perth	1957 – 1958 (succeeded by Morning Talisman)
Fenman	BR [47]	London Liverpool Street – Hunstanton; after 1969 to King's Lynn	1949 – 1968
Fife Coast Express [47] (Ran as Fifeshire Coast Express 1912 – 1924) [48]	NBR / LNER / BR	St Andrews – Glasgow Queen Street	1948 – 1959
Flying Dutchman	GWR (original)+BER	London Paddington – Exeter St Davids	1849 – 1892
Flying Scotsman [4] [5] [10]	GNR+NER+NBR / LNER / BR / GNER / NXEC / East Coast / VTEC / LNER	London King's Cross – Edinburgh Waverley From May 2011: Edinburgh to London, one way only [49]	1862 – present [50]
Flying Carolean [51]	GWR	London Paddington – Swansea	2023 – present [51]
Golden Arrow [9] [10] [11] [16] (boat train)	SR / BR	London Victoria – Dover Priory or Folkestone Harbour	1929 – 1972
Golden Hind	BR / GWR	London Paddington – Penzance	1964 – present
Granite City [10] [11]	? / BR	Aberdeen – Glasgow Buchanan Street	1933 – 1939; 1948 –
Harrogate Pullman [52]	LNER	London King's Cross – Harrogate and Newcastle	1923 – 1928 (Succeeded by the West Riding Pullman)
Harrogate Sunday Pullman [16] [22]	BR	London King's Cross – Harrogate and Bradford Exchange	1950s – late 1960s
Heart of Midlothian [4] [5]		London King's Cross – Edinburgh Waverley	1951 – 1968
The Hebridean [53]	LMS / BR	Inverness – Kyle of Lochalsh	1933 – ???? 1965 – ????
Highland Chieftain	GNER / VTEC /LNER	Inverness – London King's Cross	1984–present [54]
Highlandman	LNER	Fort William Perth Inverness – London King's Cross	1927 – 1939 [55]
Hook Continental (boat train)	LNER / BR	London Liverpool Street – Harwich Parkeston Quay	1927 – 1939; 1945 – 1987 (Succeeded by Admiraal de Ruijter ) [15]
Hull Executive	BR / GNER / NXEC / East Coast / VTEC	Hull – London King's Cross	1978–2015
Inter-City [24]	BR	London Paddington – Wolverhampton Low Level	1950–1965
Irish Mail [10] (boat train)	LNWR / LMS / BR / Virgin	London Euston – Holyhead	1849 – 1985, 1990s – 2002
Irishman [10] [11] (boat train)	BR	Glasgow St Enoch – Stranraer	1951 ?
John O'Groat [56]	LMS	Inverness – – Wick [56]	1936 – 39
Kentish Belle (Pullman train) formerly the Thanet Belle	BR	London – – Margate, Broadstairs and Ramsgate	1951 – 58
Lakes Express	LMS / BR	London Euston – Windermere, Keswick, Workington	1927 [57] – 1939; 1945 – 1965
Lancastrian [31] [32]		Manchester London Road – London Euston	1928 – 1939; 1957 – 1962
The Lewisman	LMS	Inverness – Kyle of Lochalsh	1933 – 1939
Liverpool Pullman	BR	Liverpool Lime Street – London Euston	1966 – 1974
Loreley (boat train) [14]		Blackpool North – Manchester Piccadilly – Nottingham – Harwich Parkeston Quay	1988 – 1992
Man of Kent [11] [58]		London Charing Cross – Dover, Deal, Sandwich and Margate	1953 – 1961
Manchester Pullman	BR / Virgin	Manchester Piccadilly – London Euston	1966 – 1990s
Mancunian [31] [59]	LMS / BR	Manchester London Road – London Euston	1927 – 1966
The Manxman [57]		Liverpool Lime Street – London Euston	1927 – 1966
Master Cutler [11]	LNER / BR / MML / EMR	Sheffield Victoria – London Marylebone; after 1958 to London King's Cross, later to St Pancras; [16] after privatisation from Leeds to London St Pancras via Sheffield. From 2008 no longer from Leeds but again starting at Sheffield.	1947 – present
Mayflower [60]	BR / GWR	Kingswear and Plymouth – London Paddington	1957 – present
The Merchant Venturer [10] [11]		London Paddington – Bristol Temple Meads and Weston-super-Mare	1951 – present
Merseyside Express [11]	BR	London Euston – Liverpool Lime Street	1949 [33] – 1966
Midland Pullman [16] [i]		Manchester Central – London St Pancras with midday infill London St Pancras – Nottingham	1960–1966
Mid-Day Scot [13]	LMS / BR	Glasgow Central – London Euston	1927 – 1965
Midlands Express	BR / MML	Sheffield – London St Pancras	1999 – 2008
Night Ferry	SR / BR	London Victoria – Paris Nord) later also to Brussels (Midi/Zuid) after 1948 also second-class coaches as far as Dover Western Docks	1936 – 1980
Night Riviera	GWR	London Paddington – Penzance	19th century – present
Night Scot [61]	LNWR / BR	London Euston – Glasgow Central (sleeper train)	From inauguration in 1927 it ran to Aberdeen, but this was soon after changed to Glasgow.
Night Scotsman [4] [5]	LNER / BR	London King's Cross – Edinburgh Waverley (sleeper train)	1930s to transfer of all Scottish sleepers to Euston
Norfolk Coast Express	GER	London Liverpool Street – Cromer	1907 – 1914
The Norfolkman	BR	Sheringham – London Liverpool Street	1947 – 1962; 1993 – 2000
Norseman [62]		London King's Cross – Newcastle Tyne Commission Quay (to connect with Bergen Line or Fred Olsen Line shipping services to Norway).	1947 – 1966
North Briton [10] [11]		Glasgow Queen Street – Leeds	1952 – 1968; 1972 – 1975
Northern Irishman (sleeper train) [63]		London Euston – Stranraer Harbour	1952 – 1966
Northern Lights	GNER / NXEC / VTEC	Aberdeen – London King's Cross	present
The Northumbrian [5] [21]	BR	London King's Cross – Newcastle	1949 – 1964
Orcadian [56]	LMS	Inverness – to Wick	1936 – 1939
Olympic Javelin	Southeastern High Speed	London St Pancras – Ashford International	2012 – present
Palatine	LMS / BR	Manchester Central – London St Pancras	1938 – 1964
Peaks Express	LMS		1938–1939
Pembroke Coast Express [11]	BR / GWR	London Paddington – Pembroke Dock	1953 – present
Pines Express [64]	SR and LMS / BR	Manchester London Road (or Manchester Mayfield), Liverpool and Sheffield Midland – Bournemouth West and Poole	1927 – 1967; revived in the 1980s/90s
Premier Service	ATW / TfW	Holyhead – Cardiff Central and return	2008 – present
Pullman Limited Express (Pullman train) [65]	LBSCR	London Victoria – Brighton (via Horsham route)	1881 – 1887
Queen of Scots (Pullman train) [4] [5] [10] [11] [22]	LNER / BR	Glasgow Queen Street – London King's Cross via Harrogate and Leeds Central	1927 – 1939; 1948 – 1978
The Red Dragon [11] [66]	BR / GWR	London Paddington – Carmarthen	1950 – present
The Red Rose [67]	BR	London Euston – Liverpool Lime Street	1951 – 1966
Robin Hood	BR / MML / EMR	Nottingham – London St Pancras	1958 – present
Royal Duchy [68]	BR / GWR	London Paddington – Penzance and Kingswear	1957 – present
Royal Highlander (sleeper train) [69]	BR	London Euston – Inverness	1927 – 1996
Royal Scot [10] [11]	LMS / BR / Virgin / Avanti	Glasgow Central – London Euston	1927 – 1939; 1948 – 2003; 2021 – present
Royal Wessex [70]	SR / BR	London Waterloo – Bournemouth Central, Weymouth and Swanage	1951 – 1967
Saint David [71]	GWR	London Paddington – Swansea	present
The Scandinavian [72]	BR	Liverpool Street – Harwich Parkeston Quay	1950
St Mungo [11]	BR	Aberdeen – Glasgow Buchanan Street	1948 – present
Scarborough Flyer [10] [22]		London King's Cross – Scarborough	1927 – 1963
Sheffield Continental	EMR	Sheffield – London St Pancras (one way only)	2008–present
Silver Jubilee [73]	LNER/BR	London King's Cross – Newcastle / Edinburgh Waverley (1977)	1935 – 1939; 1977
South Wales Pullman [74] [16] [i]	BR	London Paddington – Swansea	1955–1966
South Yorkshireman [11]		Bradford Exchange – Sheffield Victoria – London Marylebone	1948–1960
South Yorkshireman	EMR	Sheffield – London St Pancras	2008 – present
Southern Belle (Pullman train)	LBSCR / SR	London Victoria – Brighton	1908 – 1934
Sunny South Express [75]	LNWR+LBSCR / LMS+SR	Liverpool Lime Street – Brighton	1905 – 1939
Sussex Scot	BR / Virgin CrossCountry	Brighton – Glasgow Central Brighton – Edinburgh Waverley	1988 – 2002
Talisman [4] [5]	BR	London King's Cross – Edinburgh Waverley	1956 – 1991
The Tees Thames [21]		London King's Cross – Middlesbrough – Saltburn	1959 – 1961
Tees-Tyne Pullman [11] [16] [21]		London King's Cross – Newcastle	1948 – 2004
Thames-Clyde Express	LMS / BR	Glasgow Central – Carlisle – Leeds – London St Pancras; before 1966 from Glasgow St Enoch	1927 – 1976
Thames Forth Express	LMS	Edinburgh Waverley – Carlisle – Leeds – London St Pancras (Re-introduced in 1957 by BR as Waverley)	1927 – 1939
Thanet Belle [11] (Pullman train) later the Kentish Belle	BR	London – Margate, Broadstairs and Ramsgate	1948 – 1951
Torbay Express [11]	GWR (original) / BR / GWR	London Paddington – Paignton	1923 – present
The Tynesider [5] [21]	BR	London King's Cross – Newcastle Central (sleeper train)	1950 – 1968
Ulster Express [76]	LMS BR	London Euston – Morecambe and Heysham	1927 – 1975
Venice-Simplon Orient Express	Orient Express	London Victoria – Paris Est – Venice Santa Lucia	1982 – present
Waverley	BR	Edinburgh Waverley – Carlisle – Leeds – London St Pancras (Re-introduction of the LMS service the Thames Forth Express )	1957 – 1968
Welsh Dragon/Draig Gymreig	Virgin	London Euston – Holyhead	2004 – present
Welshman	LMS	London Euston – Holyhead portions for Llandudno, Porthmadog & Pwllheli
The Wessex Scot [42]	BR / Virgin CrossCountry	Poole – Glasgow Central	1984 – 2002
West Riding Limited [77]	LNER;BR;VTEC;LNER	London King's Cross – Bradford Exchange (Bradford Interchange from 1978; Bradford Forster Square from c.1990)	1937 – present
West Riding Pullman [52]	LNER	London King's Cross – Harrogate and Newcastle	1928 – 1935; (succeeded by the Yorkshire Pullman)
Weymouth Wizard	GWR	Bristol Temple Meads – Weymouth	2014 – 2017
White Rose [16]	BR	Bradford Exchange – Leeds – London St Pancras	1949 – 1967
The William Shakespeare [78]	BR	London Paddington – Stratford-upon-Avon	1951
Y Cymro – The Welshman	GWR	Swansea and London Paddington	2017
Yorkshire Pullman [16] [22]	BR	London King's Cross – Hull, Bradford Exchange and Harrogate	1935 – 1978
Yorkshire Pullman [79]	BR	London King's Cross – Leeds	1985 – 2004
Zephyr [2]	Grand Central	Sunderland – London King's Cross (one way only)	2008 [2] – 2010[ citation needed ]

The National Railway Museum, York, has a wall in the Great Hall where the headboards of a number of named trains are displayed. These include:

ANGLO-SCOTTISH CAR CARRIER, BRISTOLIAN*, BROADSMAN*, CALEDONIAN*, CAMBRIAN RADIO CRUISE, CAPITALS LIMITED*+, CAPITALS UNITED EXPRESS, CHELTENHAM FLYER, COMET*, CONDOR (a named freight train, derived from CONtainer DOoR-to-Door), CORNISH RIVIERA EXPRESS, CORNISHMAN*, CTAC SCOTTISH TOURS EXPRESS+, CUNARD SPECIAL+, DAY CONTINENTAL*, DEVONIAN*, EAST ANGLIAN*, EMERALD ISLE EXPRESS, EMPRESS VOYAGER+, FAIR MAID*+, FENMAN*, HARROGATE SUNDAY PULLMAN*, HEART OF MIDLOTHIAN*, INTER-CITY*, IRISH MAIL*, LAKES EXPRESS*, LANCASTRIAN*, MANXMAN*+, MASTER CUTLER*, MAYFLOWER*, MERSEYSIDE EXPRESS*+, MID-DAY SCOT*+, MIDLANDER*, NIGHT SCOTSMAN*, NORFOLKMAN*, NORSEMAN*, NORTH BRITON*, NORTH YORKSHIREMAN*, NORTHERN IRISHMAN*+, NORTHUMBRIAN*+, PALATINE*, PEMBROKE COAST EXPRESS+, QUEEN OF SCOTS*, RED DRAGON*, RED ROSE*, ROBIN HOOD*+, ROYAL DUCHY*, ROYAL HIGHLANDER*+, SCARBOROUGH FLIER, SCARBOROUGH FLYER*, SHAMROCK*+, SOUTH WALES PULLMAN*, TEES-THAMES*, THAMES-CLYDE EXPRESS*, TORBAY EXPRESS, ULSTER EXPRESS, WELSH CHIEFTAIN*, WELSHMAN*, WEST RIDING*

* indicates that the name is prefixed by "THE".

+ indicates that more than one version is on display. ^[80]

See also railwaybritain.co.uk ^{[ usurped ]} for a description of a number of Boat Trains, some of which are included in the lists above.

Notes

1. One of the Blue Pullman trains.
2. Advertised as non-stop in summer 1962 but stopped for crew change at Newcastle after introduction of Deltic traction.

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3. LNER Passenger Services Timetable 7 October 1946 to 4 May 1947
4. Allen, C J. British Express Trains No 5 - Anglo-Scottish Services and Scottish Region; Ian Allan (1960)
5. British Railways (N E Region) leaflet BR 35109/1Named Trains on the East Coast Main Line
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7. Allen (1947), p. 67.
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10. Cited as an example of one of the 'more than 50 named trains' run by British Railways in the 1952 edition of Facts and Figures about British Railways published by the British Transport Commission for railway employees
11. Bonavia, Michael R. (1979). The birth of British Rail. London: Allen & Unwin. OCLC   59803166.
12. Bradshaw's January 1960, p. 468.
13. Bradshaw's January 1960, p. 590.
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15. Cowley, Ian (1987). Anglia East - The Transformation of a Railway. Newton Abbot: David and Charles. p. 64. ISBN   0-7153-8978-5.
16. Advertised as a Pullman Train in November 1965 issue of the ABC Railway Guide
17. "The London Letter". Aberdeen Press and Journal . 22 April 1949. p. 2. Retrieved 30 April 2023. This summer there will be at least three newly named trains of particular interest to Aberdeen. They will be seen daily at the Joint Station. Until now they have been running between Aberdeen and Glasgow nameless. After May 23 they will carry the titles "The Bon Accord", "The Granite City" and "The St Mungo." Engine-number spotters will have this additional attraction to brighten this popular pastime this summer. – via britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk (subscription required)
18. Smail, H.C.P. (1955). "By Pullman to Brighton". Sussex County Magazine. Vol. 29. Eastbourne.
19. Allen, Cecil J. (1960). ABC of British Express Trains No 1 - Western Region. Ian Allan.
20. Bradshaw's January 1960, p. 24.
21. Allen,C J. British Express Trains No 4 - Eastern, N E Regions; Ian Allan (1959)
22. British Railways Eastern Region Passenger Timetable 11 June to 16 September 1956
23. Bradshaw's (January 1960), p. 590.
24. Bradshaw's (January 1960), p. 201.
25. Bradshaw's (January 1960), p. 141.
26. "G.W.R. Express Titles" . Western Daily Press. England. 9 July 1927. Retrieved 19 December 2017– via British Newspaper Archive.
27. "London North Eastern Railway named train celebrates King's Coronation". railadvent.co.uk. 19 April 2023. Retrieved 19 April 2023.
28. Bradshaw's (January 1960), p. 227.
29. Bradshaw's January 1960, p. 159.
30. "Clansman" . Aberdeen Press and Journal. England. 31 December 1975. Retrieved 19 December 2017– via British Newspaper Archive.
31. Allen, Cecil J. (1960). ABC of British Express Trains No No 3 - London Midland Region. Ian Allan. OCLC   226176429.
32. Bradshaw's January 1960, p. 631.
33. "Next Monday Week" . Rugby Advertiser. England. 16 September 1949. Retrieved 13 November 2017– via British Newspaper Archive.
34. "BR line up a new look for InterCity". South Wales Echo . 30 December 1986. p. 10. Retrieved 30 April 2023. The mid-morning Newcastle-Penzance train is to be named The Cornishman with a two-hour cut in journey time and a new all-year service from Scotland to the South West of England to be called The Cornish Scot. – via britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk (subscription required)
35. Bradshaw's (January 1960), p. 207.
36. Hughes, Geoffrey (1996). LNER (3 ed.). Shepperton: Ian Allan. p.  152. ISBN   0-7110-1428-0.
37. "The titled Trains of Britain - Part One". The Railway Magazine. November 2011.
38. "GWR - B3 Train Times" (PDF). GWR . 2024. Archived from the original (PDF) on 30 September 2024. Retrieved 5 October 2024.
39. Haws, Duncan (1993). Merchant Fleets - Britain's Railway Steamers Eastern and North Western Companies + Zeeland and Stena. Hereford: TCL Publications. p. 204. ISBN   0-946378-22-3.
40. "More trains, faster journeys promised". Aberdeen Press and Journal . 21 April 1989. p. 10. Retrieved 30 April 2023. The Devon Scot will retimed to leave Aberdeen later at 0900, and still arrive earlier in Plymouth at 2104. – via britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk (subscription required)
41. Bradshaw's (January 1960), p. 110, 700.
42. "Welcome to the new high speed service". Reading Evening Post . 8 November 1991. p. 19. Retrieved 30 April 2023. OUR Birmingham shopping trip offer marks the introduction of Inter City 125 trains to provide exciting new services for Reading rail users. The Dorset Scot Poole to Edinburgh service runs via Birmingham Sheffield, Leeds, York and Newcastle, and back, while the Wessex Scot covers the route from Bournemouth to Glasgow, taking in Birmingham, Crewe, Preiton, Lancaster and Carlisle. The Pines Express travels between Poole and Manchester, with stops at Birmingham, Stoke-On-Trent and Stockport. – via britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk (subscription required)
43. Bradshaw's (January 1960), p. 618.
44. The Railway Magazine. July 1958. p. 443.{{cite magazine}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
45. "List of BR named trains".
46. "The 'European'". Grantham Journal . 20 May 1983. p. 4. Retrieved 30 April 2023. A NEW train named The European" — an extension of British Rail Inter City Europe rail and sea links — is calling at Grantham on each direction. "The European" provides Glasgow, Cumbria, the North-West and principal towns in Central England with a valuable direct connection to the heart of Europe via the Harwich / Hook of Holland sea route – via britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk (subscription required)
47. Bonavia, Michael Robert (1981). British Rail - the first 25 Years. Newton Abbot: David & Charles. ISBN   978-0-7153-8002-4.
48. Lee, Charles E. (August 1958). "Named British Express trains". The Railway Magazine. London. pp. 530–535.
49. Miles, Tony (July 2011). "East Coast reports successful start". Modern Railways. London. p. 14.
50. National Rail Timetable 23 May 2010 - December 2010, Table 26 (PDF). Network Rail. p. 4.
51. Lydall, Ross (5 May 2023). "The Flying Carolean: Royal train gets era of King Charles III off to high-speed start". Evening Standard. Retrieved 5 May 2023.
52. "New Pullman Service" . Hull Daily Mail. England. 26 October 1935. Retrieved 17 September 2017– via British Newspaper Archive.
53. Allen (1947), p. 95.
54. National Rail Timetable 23 May 2010 - December 2010, Table 26 (PDF). Network Rail. p. 5.
55. Nottingham Evening Post. 8 August 1930.{{cite news}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
56. Allen (1947), p. 97.
57. "Summer Services. More and Faster Trains Next Week" . Derbyshire Advertiser and Journal. England. 8 July 1927. Retrieved 13 November 2017– via British Newspaper Archive.
58. Bradshaw's January 1960, p. 291.
59. Bradshaw's (January 1960), p. 629.
60. Bradshaw's January 1960, p. 31.
61. Allen, Cecil J. (1967). Titled Trains of Great Britain (5th ed.). London: Ian Allan. p. 132.
62. "Winter withdrawal of trains". Birmingham Daily Post . 2 September 1952. p. 5. Retrieved 30 April 2023. British Railways Eastern Region announces the following principal alterations in services to operate from September 15 until further notice:— Withdrawals: The Capitals Limited 9.35 am Kings Cross to Edinburgh; The Scarborough Flyer 11.20 am Kings Cross; The Easterling to and from Liverpool Street Yarmouth and Lowestoft; The Norseman boat train 9.0 am Kings Cross to Newcastle – via britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk (subscription required)
63. Bradshaw's January 1960, p. 572.
64. Bradshaw's January 1960, p. 492.
65. Smail, H.C.P. (1955). "By Pullman to Brighton". Sussex County Magazine. Vol. 29. Eastbourne.
66. Bradshaw's January 1960, p. 32.
67. "Red Rose Late". Liverpool Echo . 5 January 1965. p. 4. Retrieved 30 April 2023. The 4.30 p.m. (Red Rose) train from Lime Street, due in London at 1.21 p.m. arrived at 9.32 p.m. 72 minutes late. – via britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk (subscription required)
68. Bradshaw's January 1960, p. 69.
69. Bradshaw's January 1960, p. 574.
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