List of named passenger trains of the United Kingdom
This article contains a list 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 or sporadic special trains are not included. Note: All Pullmans are named trains, but by no means all named trains are Pullmans.
Train Name | Railway | Train Endpoints | Operated |
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21st Century Limited | Grand Central | London King's Cross – Sunderland (one way only) | 2010 |
Aberdonian[1][2][3] | BR | Aberdeen – London King's Cross (sleeper service - later Night Aberdonian)[4] |
1927 – ?2012 |
Aberdonian | BR | Aberdeen – London King's Cross (daytime High Speed Train service) |
?1977 – 1994 |
Admiraal de Ruijter (train) | 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[5] | ? – 1954 |
Atlantic Coast Express[6][7][8][9] | SR / BR | London Waterloo – Plymouth, Ilfracombe, Sidmouth, Exmouth, Bude, Padstow, Torrington | 1926 – 1948 – 1964 |
Atlantic Coast Express | FGW | London Paddington – Newquay | 2008 – present |
Belfast Boat Express (boat train)[10] | BR | Manchester Victoria – Heysham and Morecambe | ? – 1960 – 1975 |
Benjamin Britten (train)[11] | BR / NS | London Liverpool Street – Harwich Parkeston Quay– ferry – Hoek van Holland Haven – Amsterdam Centraal | 1987 – 1989[12] |
Birmingham Pullman[13][14] | BR | London Paddington – Wolverhampton Low Level | 1960–1966 |
Bon Accord– | BR | Aberdeen – Glasgow Buchanan Street | 1948-1968 |
Bournemouth Belle (Pullman train)[13] | SR / BR | London Waterloo – Bournemouth Central/Bournemouth West | 1931 – 1967 |
Brighton Belle (Pullman train)[13] | SR / BR | London Victoria – Brighton | 1934 – 1972 |
Brighton Limited (Pullman train) | LBSCR | London Victoria – Brighton | 1887 – 1908 |
Brighton Pullman Limited (Pullman train)[15] | LBSCR | London Victoria – Brighton | 1898 – 1908 |
Bristol Pullman (Pullman train)[13][14] | BR | London Paddington – Bristol Temple Meads | 1960–1973 |
Bristolian[16] | GWR / BR / FGW | London Paddington – Bristol Temple Meads non-stop[17] | 1935 – present |
Broadsman[18][19] | GER / BR | London Liverpool Street – Cromer and Sheringham | 1947 – 1962 |
Caledonian[10] | BR | Glasgow Central – London Euston | 1957 – 1964 |
Caledonian Sleeper (night train) | First ScotRail | London Euston – Edinburgh Waverley London Euston – Aberdeen London Euston – Fort William London Euston – Glasgow Central London Euston – Inverness |
2004 – present |
Cambrian Coast Express[20] | GWR / BR | London Paddington (later London Euston) – Aberystwyth London Paddington – Pwllheli |
1927 – 1991 |
Capitals Limited[8] | BR | London Kings Cross – Aberdeen (non-stop London Kings Cross to Edinburgh Waverley) |
1949 – 1952 (succeeded by Elizabethan) |
Capitals United Express[21] | BR | London Paddington – Cardiff Central London Paddington – Fishguard Harbour |
1956 – 1963 |
Capitals United | FGW | London Paddington – Swansea | 2010 – Present |
Carmarthen Bay Express | GWR | London Paddington – Tenby | 1920s |
Cathedrals Express[22] | GWR / BR / FGW | London Paddington – Oxford – Hereford | 1957 – present |
Cheltenham Spa Express (aka. the "Cheltenham Flyer")[23] |
GWR / BR / FGW | London Paddington – Cheltenham Spa | 1923 – present |
Clansman[4] | BR | Inverness – London Euston via Birmingham New Street | |
Comet[8][24][25] | BR | London Euston – Manchester London Road | 1951 – 1962 |
Cornish Riviera Express[7][8] | GWR / BR / FGW | London Paddington – Penzance | 1904 – present |
Cornish Scot | BR / Virgin | Glasgow Central – Penzance | 1985 – 2002 |
Cornishman | GWR | London Paddington – Penzance | 1890 – 1904 1935 – 1936 |
Cornishman[26] | BR | (Bradford) – Wolverhampton Low Level – Penzance and Kingswear | 1951 – 1975 |
Coronation | LNER | London King's Cross – Edinburgh Waverley | 1937 – 1939 |
Coronation Scot | LMS | Glasgow Central – London Euston | 1937 – 1939 |
Cotswolds and Malvern Express | GWR / BR / Wessex Trains | Bristol Temple Meads – Great Malvern | May 1884 – May 1997 [27] |
Day Continental (boat train) | LNER / BR | London Liverpool Street – Harwich Parkeston Quay | 1946[28] - 1987 [ Succeeded by Benjamin Britten )[12] |
Devon Belle[8] (Pullman train) | SR / BR | London Waterloo – Ilfracombe London Waterloo – Plymouth |
1947 – 1954 |
Devon Scot | BR / Virgin | Aberdeen – Carlisle – Plymouth | 1988 – 2002 |
Devonian[24][29] | LMS / BR | Bradford Forster Square – Sheffield Midland – Bristol Temple Meads (Winter) – Paignton (Summer) | 1927 – 1960 – 2002 |
Dorset Scot | BR / Virgin | Poole – Newcastle Central – Edinburgh Waverley | 1990 – 2002 |
East Anglian | LNER / BR / Anglia / ONE Anglia / NXEA / Greater Anglia | London Liverpool Street – Norwich | 1937–present |
The Easterling[19] | BR | London Liverpool Street – Lowestoft and Yarmouth South Town | 1950 – 1958 |
Eastern Belle | LNER | London Liverpool Street – Clacton-on-Sea | 1929–1939 |
Elizabethan[2][3][8] (summer only) | BR | London King's Cross – Edinburgh Waverley (non-stop)[30] | 1953 – 1964 |
Emerald Isle Express[31] | BR | London Euston – Llandudno and Holyhead | 1954 - 1960 - 1975, 1993 - 1997 |
Fair Maid[2] | BR | London King's Cross – Perth | 1957-1958 (succeeded by Morning Talisman) |
Fenman | BR[32] | London Liverpool Street – Hunstanton after 1969 to King's Lynn |
1949 – 1968 |
Fife Coast Express[32] (Ran as Fifeshire Coast Express 1912 – 1939) [33] |
NBR / LNER / BR | St Andrews – Glasgow Queen Street | 1948 – 1959 |
Flying Dutchman | GWR+BER | London Paddington – Exeter St Davids | 1849 – 1892 |
Flying Scotsman[2][3][7] | GNR+NER+NBR / LNER / BR / GNER / East Coast |
London King's Cross – Edinburgh Waverley From May 2011: Edinburgh to London, one way only[34] |
1862 – present[35] |
Golden Arrow[6][7][8][13] (boat train) | SR / BR | London Victoria – Dover Priory or Folkestone Harbour | 1929 – 1972 |
Golden Hind | FGW | London Paddington – Penzance | present |
Granite City[7][8] | ? / BR | Aberdeen – Glasgow Buchanan Street | 1933 – 1939, 1948 – |
Harrogate Sunday Pullman[13][19] | BR | London King's Cross – Harrogate and Bradford Exchange | 1950s to late 1960s |
Heart of Midlothian[2][3] | BR | London King's Cross – Edinburgh Waverley | 1951 – 1968 |
Highland Chieftain | GNER | Inverness – London King's Cross | 1984 - present[36] |
The Highlandman | LNER | Fort William Perth Inverness – London King's Cross | ???? - 1930 - ????[37] |
Hook Continental (boat train) | LNER / BR | London Liverpool Street – Harwich Parkeston Quay | 1927 - 1939, 1945 - 1987 (Succeeded by 'Admiral de Ruyter')[12] |
Hull Executive | BR / GNER | Hull – London King's Cross | 1978 – present |
Inter-City[20] | BR | London Paddington – Wolverhampton Low Level | 1950–1965 |
Irish Mail[7] (boat train) | LNWR / LMS / BR / Virgin | London Euston – Holyhead | 1849 – 1985, 1990s - 2002 |
Irishman[7][8] (boat train) | BR | Glasgow St Enoch – Stranraer | 1951 ? |
Kentish Belle (Pullman train) formerly the "Thanet Belle" |
BR | London – to Margate, Broadstairs and Ramsgate | 1951-58 |
Lancastrian[24][25] | LMS / BR | Manchester London Road – London Euston | 1928 – 1939, 1957 - 1962 |
Liverpool Pullman | BR | Liverpool Lime Street – London Euston and v.v. | 1966 – 1974 |
Loreley (boat train)[11] | BR | Blackpool North – Manchester Piccadilly – Nottingham – Harwich Parkeston Quay | 1988 – 1992 |
Man of Kent[8][38] | BR | London Charing Cross – Dover, Deal, Sandwich and Margate | 1953 – 1961 |
Manchester Pullman | BR / Virgin | Manchester Piccadilly – London Euston and v.v. | 1966 – 1990s |
Mancunian[24][39] | LMS / BR | Manchester London Road – London Euston | 1927 - 1966 |
Master Cutler[8] | LNER / BR / MML / EMT | Sheffield Victoria – London Marylebone after 1958 to London King's Cross, later to St Pancras[13] after privatisation from Leeds to London St Pancras via Sheffield. From 2008 no longer from Leeds starting again at Sheffield. |
1947 – present |
Mayflower[40] | BR / FGW | Kingswear and Plymouth – London Paddington | 1957 – present |
Merchant Venturer[7][8] | BR / FGW | London Paddington – Bristol Temple Meads and Weston-super-Mare | 1951 – present |
Merchant Venturer | BR / FGW | London Paddington – Penzance via Bristol Temple Meads | present |
Merseyside Express[8] | BR | London Euston – Liverpool Lime Street | 1951 – 1966 |
Midland Pullman[13][14] | BR | Manchester Central – London St Pancras with midday infill London St Pancras – Nottingham |
1960–1966 |
Mid-Day Scot[10] | 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 2nd-class coaches as far as Dover Western Docks |
1936 – 1980 |
Night Riviera | FGW | London Paddington – Penzance | 19th Century – present |
Night Scotsman[2][3] | LNER / BR | London Kings Cross – Edinburgh Waverley (sleeper train) | 1930s to transfer of all Scottish sleepers to Euston |
Norfolk Coast Express | GER / BR | London Liverpool Street – Cromer | 1907 – 1914 |
The Norfolkman | BR | Sheringham – London Liverpool Street | 1947 – 1962, 1993 – 2000 |
Norseman | BR | London Kings Cross – Newcastle Tyne Commission Quay (to connect with Bergen Line or Fred Olsen Line shipping services to Norway). |
1947 – 1966 |
North Briton[7][8] | BR | Glasgow Queen Street – Leeds City | 1952 – 1968, 1972 – 1975 |
Northern Irishman (sleeper train)[41] | BR | London Euston – Stranraer Harbour | 1952 – 1966 |
Northern Lights | GNER / NXEC | Aberdeen – London King's Cross | present |
The Northumbrian[3][18] | BR | London Kings Cross – Newcastle Central | 1949 – 1964 |
Palatine | LMS / BR | Manchester Central – London St Pancras | 1938 – 1964 |
Peaks Express | LMS | Manchester Central – London St Pancras | 1938–1939 |
Pembroke Coast Express[8] | BR / FGW | London Paddington – Pembroke Dock | 1953 – present |
Pines Express[42] | 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 |
Pullman Limited Express (Pullman train)[43] | LBSCR | London Victoria – Brighton (via Horsham route) | 1881 – 1887 |
Queen of Scots (Pullman train)[2][3][7][8][19] | LNER / BR | Glasgow Queen Street – London King's Cross via Harrogate and Leeds Central |
1927 – 1939 1948 – 1978 |
Red Dragon[8][44] | BR / FGW | London Paddington – Carmarthen | 1950 – present |
Robin Hood | BR / MML / EMT | Nottingham – London St Pancras | 1958 – present |
Royal Duchy[45] | BR / FGW | London Paddington – Penzance and Kingswear | 1957 – present |
Royal Highlander (sleeper train)[46] | BR | London Euston – Inverness | 1927 – 1996 |
Royal Scot[7][8] | LNWR / LMS /BR / Virgin | Glasgow Central – London Euston | 1862 – 1939 1948 – 2003 |
Royal Wessex[47] | SR / BR | London Waterloo – Bournemouth Central, Weymouth and Swanage | 1951 – 1967 |
Saint David | GWR / BR / FGW | London Paddington – Swansea | present |
St Mungo[8] | BR | Aberdeen – Glasgow Buchanan Street | 1948- |
Scarborough Flyer[7][19] | BR | London King's Cross – Scarborough | 1927 – 1963 |
Sheffield Continental | EMT | Sheffield – London St Pancras (one way only) | 2008–present |
Silver Jubilee | LNER | London King's Cross – Newcastle Central | 1935 – 1939, |
South Wales Pullman[13][14] | BR | London Paddington – Swansea | 1960–1966 |
South Yorkshireman[8] | BR | Bradford Exchange – Sheffield Victoria – London Marylebone | 1948–1960 |
South Yorkshireman | EMT | Sheffield – London St Pancras | 2008 – present |
Southern Belle (Pullman train) | LBSCR / SR | London Victoria – Brighton | 1908 – 1934 |
Sunny South Express | LNWR+LBSCR / LMSR+SR | Liverpool Lime Street – Brighton | 1905 – 1939 |
Sussex Scot | BR / Virgin | Brighton – Glasgow Central Brighton – Edinburgh Waverley |
1988 – 2002 |
Talisman[2][3] | BR | London King's Cross – Edinburgh Waverley | 1956 – 1991 |
The Tees Thames[18] | BR | London Kings Cross – Middlesbrough – Saltburn | 1959 – 1961 |
Tees-Tyne Pullman[8][13][18] | BR | London King's Cross – Newcastle Central | 1948 – 2004 |
Thames-Clyde Express | LMS / BR | Glasgow Central – Carlisle Citadel –Leeds City – London St Pancras before 1966 from Glasgow St Enoch |
1927 – 1975 |
Thames Forth Express (aka. Waverley) |
LMS / BR | Edinburgh Waverley – Carlisle Citadel –Leeds City – London St Pancras | 1927 – 1968 |
Thanet Belle[8] (Pullman train) later the "Kentish Belle" |
BR | London – to Margate, Broadstairs and Ramsgate | 1948-51 |
Torbay Express[8] | GWR / BR / FGW | London Paddington – Paignton | 1923 – present |
The Tynesider[3][18] | BR | London Kings Cross – Newcastle Central (sleeper train) | 1950 – 1968 |
Ulster Express[48] | BR | London Euston – Morecambe and Heysham | 1927 – 1975 |
Venice-Simplon Orient Express | Orient Express | London Victoria – Paris Est – Venice Santa Lucia | 1982 – present |
Virgin Invader | Virgin | London Euston – Liverpool Lime Street | 2002 – ? (not 2010) |
Welsh Dragon/Draig Gymreig | Virgin | London Euston – Holyhead | 2004 – ? (not 2010) |
Welshman | London Paddington – Llandudno London Paddington – Porthmadog Harbour London Paddington – Pwllheli |
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The Wessex Scot | BR / Virgin | Poole – Glasgow Central | 1984 – 2002 |
White Rose[13] | BR | Bradford Exchange – Leeds City – London St Pancras | 1949 – 1967 |
Y Gerallt Gymro / Premier Service[49] | ATW | Holyhead – Cardiff Central | 2011 – present |
Yorkshire Pullman[13][19] | BR | London King's Cross – Hull, Bradford Forster Square and Harrogate | 1935 – 1978 |
Yorkshire Pullman[50] | BR | London King's Cross – Leeds | 1995 – 2004 |
Zephyr | Grand Central | Sunderland – London King's Cross (one way only) | 2010 |
The National Railway Museum has a wall 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*, where * indicates that the name is prefixed by the definite article and + indicates that more than one version is on display.
See also railwaybritain.co.uk for a description of a number of Boat Trains, some of which are included in the lists above.
Notes
- ↑ LNER Passenger Services Timetable 7 October 1946 to 4 May 1947
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 Allen, C J. British Express Trains No 5 - Anglo-Scottish Services and Scottish Region; Ian Allan (1960)
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 3.7 3.8 British Railways (N E Region) leaflet BR 35109/1 Named Trains on the East Coast Main Line
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 British Rail Passenger Timetable 17 May 1982 to 15 May 1983
- ↑ Allen, Cecil J. (1947);Titled Trains of Great Britain ; London, Ian Allan Ltd. ; Page 67
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Allen, Cecil J. (1960). ABC of British Express Trains No 2 - Southern Region. Ian Allan. OCLC 226176356.
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 7.4 7.5 7.6 7.7 7.8 7.9 7.10 7.11 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
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3 8.4 8.5 8.6 8.7 8.8 8.9 8.10 8.11 8.12 8.13 8.14 8.15 8.16 8.17 8.18 8.19 8.20 8.21 8.22 Bonavia, Michael R. (1979). The birth of British Rail. London: Allen & Unwin. OCLC 59803166.
- ↑ Bradshaw's January 1960, p. 468.
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 Bradshaw's January 1960, p. 590.
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 Semmens, P.W.B. (October 1988). "Blackpool for the Continent". Railway Magazine (London). p. 638.
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 12.2 Cowley, Ian (1987). Anglia East - The Transformation of a Railway. Newton Abbot: David and Charles. p. 64. ISBN 0-7153-8978-5.
- ↑ 13.0 13.1 13.2 13.3 13.4 13.5 13.6 13.7 13.8 13.9 13.10 13.11 Advertised as a Pullman Train in November 1965 issue of the ABC Railway Guide
- ↑ 14.0 14.1 14.2 14.3 One of the Blue Pullman trains
- ↑ Smail, H.C.P. (1955). "By Pullman to Brighton". Sussex County Magazine (Eastbourne) 29.
- ↑ Allen, Cecil J. (1960). ABC of British Express Trains No 1 - Western Region. Ian Allan.
- ↑ Bradshaw's January 1960, p. 24.
- ↑ 18.0 18.1 18.2 18.3 18.4 Allen,C J. British Express Trains No 4 - Eastern, N E Regions; Ian Allan (1959)
- ↑ 19.0 19.1 19.2 19.3 19.4 19.5 British Railways Eastern Region Passenger Timetable 11 June to 16 September 1956
- ↑ 20.0 20.1 Bradshaw's January 1960, p. 201.
- ↑ Bradshaw's January 1960, p. 141.
- ↑ Bradshaw's January 1960, p. 227.
- ↑ Bradshaw's January 1960, p. 159.
- ↑ 24.0 24.1 24.2 24.3 Allen, Cecil J. (1960). ABC of British Express Trains No No 3 - London Midland Region. Ian Allan. OCLC 226176429.
- ↑ 25.0 25.1 Bradshaw's January 1960, p. 631.
- ↑ Bradshaw's January 1960, p. 207.
- ↑ "The titled Trains of Britain - Part One". Railway Magazine. November 2011.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ Bradshaw's January 1960, pp. 110, 700.
- ↑ Advertised as non-stop in summer 1962 but stopped for crew change at Newcastle after introduction of Deltic traction
- ↑ Bradshaw's January 1960, p. 618.
- ↑ 32.0 32.1 Bonavia, Michael Robert (1981). British Rail - the first 25 Years. Newton Abbot: David & Charles. ISBN 978-0-7153-8002-4.
- ↑ Lee, Charles E. (August 1958). "Named British Express trains". Railway Magazine (London). pp. 530–535.
- ↑ Miles, Tony (July 2011). "East Coast reports successful start". Modern Railways (London). p. 14.
- ↑ National Rail Timetable 23 May 2010 - December 2010, Table 26. Network Rail. p. 4.
- ↑ National Rail Timetable 23 May 2010 - December 2010, Table 26. Network Rail. p. 5.
- ↑ {Nottingham Evening Post - Friday 8 August 1930
- ↑ Bradshaw's January 1960, p. 291.
- ↑ Bradshaw's January 1960, p. 629.
- ↑ Bradshaw's January 1960, p. 31.
- ↑ Bradshaw's January 1960, p. 572.
- ↑ Bradshaw's January 1960, p. 492.
- ↑ Smail, H.C.P. (1955). "By Pullman to Brighton". Sussex County Magazine (Eastbourne) 29.
- ↑ Bradshaw's January 1960, p. 32.
- ↑ Bradshaw's January 1960, p. 69.
- ↑ Bradshaw's January 1960, p. 574.
- ↑ Bradshaw's January 1960, p. 440.
- ↑ Bradshaw's January 1960, p. 571.
- ↑ http://www.arrivatrainswales.co.uk/PremierService/
- ↑ "Operations News: InterCity East Coast". Railway Magazine (London). March 1995. p. 69.