| Train name
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Company/ies
|
Journey endpoints
|
Dates operated
|
| 21st Century Limited[1][2]
|
Grand Central
|
Template:Stnlink – Template:Stnlink (one way only)
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2008[2] – 2010Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
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| Aberdonian[3][4][5]
|
BR Serco
|
Template:Stnlink – Template:Stnlink (sleeper service - later Night Aberdonian)[6]
|
1927 – ?2012 Jan – Mar 2016
|
| Aberdonian
|
BR
|
Template:Stnlink – Template:Stnlink (daytime InterCity 125 service)
|
?1977 – 1994
|
| Admiraal de Ruijter
|
BR / NS
|
Template:Stnlink – Harwich Parkeston Quay – ferry – Template:Stnlink – Template:Stnlink
|
1987 – 1989
|
| Antwerp Continental (boat train)
|
LNER
|
Template:Stnlink – Harwich Parkeston Quay – Harwich TownTemplate:Sfnp
|
? – 1954
|
| Armada[7]
|
GWR
|
Template:Stnlink – Template:Stnlink
|
? – present
|
| Atlantic Coast Express[8][9][10][11]
|
SR / BR
|
Template:Stnlink – Template:Stnlink, Template:Stnlink, Template:Stnlink, Template:Stnlink, Template:Stnlink, Padstow, Template:Stnlink
|
1926 – 1948 – 1964
|
| Atlantic Coast Express[7]
|
GWR
|
Template:Stnlink – Template:Stnlink
|
2008 – present
|
| Belfast Boat Express (boat train)[12]
|
BR
|
Template:Stnlink – Template:Stnlink and Template:Stnlink
|
? – 1960 – 1975
|
| Benjamin Britten[13]
|
BR / NS
|
Template:Stnlink – Harwich Parkeston Quay– ferry – Template:Stnlink – Template:Stnlink
|
1987 – 1989[14]
|
| Birmingham PullmanTemplate:Efn-lr[15]
|
BR
|
Template:Stnlink – Template:Stnlink
|
1960 – 1966
|
| Bon Accord[16]
|
Template:Stnlink – Glasgow Buchanan Street
|
1949 – 1968
|
| Bournemouth Belle (Pullman train)[15]
|
SR / BR
|
Template:Stnlink – Template:Stnlink/Template:Stnlink
|
1931 – 1967
|
| Brighton Belle (Pullman train)[15]
|
SR / BR
|
Template:Stnlink – Template:Stnlink
|
1934 – 1972
|
| Brighton Limited (Pullman train)
|
LBSCR
|
1887 – 1908
|
| Brighton Pullman Limited (Pullman train)[17]
|
1898 – 1908
|
| Bristol Pullman (Pullman train)[15]Template:Efn-lr
|
BR
|
Template:Stnlink – Template:Stnlink
|
1960 – 1973
|
| Bristolian[18]
|
GWR (original) / BR / GWR
|
Template:Stnlink – Template:Stnlink non-stop[19] (original); Template:Stnlink to Template:Stnlink (current)
|
1935 – present
|
| Broadsman[20][21]
|
BR
|
Template:Stnlink – Template:Stnlink and Template:Stnlink
|
1950 – 1962
|
| CaledonianTemplate:Sfn
|
Template:Stnlink – Template:Stnlink
|
1957 – 1964
|
| Caledonian Sleeper (night train)
|
InterCity West Coast / ScotRail (British Rail) / ScotRail (National Express) / First ScotRail / Caledonian Sleeper
|
Template:Stnlink – Template:Stnlink Template:Stnlink – Template:Stnlink Template:Stnlink – Template:Stnlink Template:Stnlink – Template:Stnlink Template:Stnlink – Template:Stnlink
|
1996 – present
|
| Cambrian Coast ExpressTemplate:Sfn
|
GWR (original) / BR
|
Template:Stnlink (later Template:Stnlink) – Template:Stnlink Template:Stnlink – Template:Stnlink
|
1927 – 1991
|
| Capitals Limited[10]
|
BR
|
London King's Cross – Template:Stnlink (non-stop London King's Cross to Edinburgh Waverley)
|
1949 – 1952 (succeeded by Elizabethan)
|
| Capitals United ExpressTemplate:Sfn
|
Template:Stnlink – Template:Stnlink Template:Stnlink – Template:Stnlink
|
1956 – 1963
|
| Capitals United[7]
|
GWR
|
Template:Stnlink – Template:Stnlink
|
2010 – present
|
| Carmarthen Bay Express
|
GWR
|
Template:Stnlink – Template:Stnlink
|
1927[22] – ????
|
| Carolean Express[23]
|
LNER
|
Template:Stnlink – Template:Stnlink
|
May 2023 – present
|
| Cathedrals ExpressTemplate:Sfn
|
BR / GWR
|
Template:Stnlink – Template:Stnlink – Template:Stnlink
|
1957 – present
|
Cheltenham Spa Express (also known as The Cheltenham Flyer)[24]
|
GWR (original) / BR / GWR
|
Template:Stnlink – Template:Stnlink
|
1929 – present
|
| Clansman[6]
|
BR
|
Template:Stnlink – Template:Stnlink via Template:Stnlink
|
1974[25] – 1984
|
| Comet[10][26][27]
|
BR
|
Template:Stnlink – Template:Stnlink
|
1949[28] – 1962
|
| Cornish Riviera Express[9][10]
|
GWR (original) / BR / GWR
|
Template:Stnlink – Template:Stnlink
|
1904 – present
|
| Cornish Scot[29]
|
BR / Virgin CrossCountry
|
Template:Stnlink – Template:Stnlink
|
1987 – 2002
|
| Cornishman
|
GWR (original)
|
Template:Stnlink – Template:Stnlink
|
1890 – 1904 1935 – 1936
|
| CornishmanTemplate:Sfn
|
BR
|
(Bradford Exchange) – Template:Stnlink – Template:Stnlink and Template:Stnlink
|
1951 – 1975
|
| Cornishman
|
BR
|
Template:Stnlink – Template:Stnlink
|
1983 – 2002
|
| Cornishman[7]
|
GWR
|
Template:Stnlink – Template:Stnlink
|
2006 – present
|
| Coronation[30]
|
LNER
|
Template:Stnlink – Template:Stnlink
|
1937 – 1939
|
| Coronation Scot
|
LMS
|
Template:Stnlink – Template:Stnlink
|
1937 – 1939
|
| Cotswolds and Malvern Express
|
GWR (original) / BR / Wales & West / GWR
|
Template:Stnlink – Template:Stnlink Template:Stnlink – Template:Stnlink
|
May 1884 – May 1997[31] June 2024 – present[32]
|
| Day Continental (boat train)
|
LNER / BR
|
Template:Stnlink – Harwich Parkeston Quay
|
1946[33] – 1987 (succeeded by Benjamin Britten)[14]
|
| Devon Belle[10] (Pullman train)
|
SR / BR
|
Template:Stnlink – Ilfracombe Template:Stnlink – Template:Stnlink
|
1947 – 1954
|
| Devon Express[7]
|
GWR
|
Template:Stnlink – Template:Stnlink
|
? – present
|
| Devon Scot[34]
|
BR / Virgin CrossCountry
|
Template:Stnlink – Template:Stnlink – Template:Stnlink
|
1988 – 2002
|
| Devonian[26]Template:Sfn
|
LMS / BR
|
Template:Stnlink (Bradford Exchange from 1967; Template:Stnlink from 1980) – Template:Stnlink – Template:Stnlink (winter) – Template:Stnlink (summer)
|
1927 – 2002
|
| Dorset Scot[35]
|
BR / Virgin CrossCountry
|
Template:Stnlink – Newcastle – Template:Stnlink
|
1990 – 2002
|
| East Anglian
|
LNER / BR / Anglia / National Express East Anglia / Abellio Greater Anglia
|
Template:Stnlink – Template:Stnlink
|
1937–present
|
| The Easterling[21]
|
BR
|
Template:Stnlink – Template:Stnlink and Template:Stnlink
|
1950 – 1958
|
| The Elizabethan[4][5][10] (summer only)
|
BR
|
Template:Stnlink – Template:Stnlink (non-stop)Template:Efn-lr
|
1953 – 1964
|
| Emerald Isle ExpressTemplate:Sfn
|
Template:Stnlink – Template:Stnlink and Template:Stnlink
|
1954 – 1960 – 1975; 1993 – 1997
|
| Enterprise
|
GNR(I) / UTA+CIÉ / NIR+IÉ
|
Template:Stnlink (Template:Stnlink until 1976) & Template:Stnlink
|
1947–present
|
| Essex Coast Express[36]
|
BR
|
Template:Stnlink – Template:Stnlink
|
1958 – 1968[37]
|
| The European[38]
|
Template:Stnlink and Template:Stnlink – Template:Stnlink
|
1983 – 1988
|
| Fair Maid[4]
|
Template:Stnlink – Perth
|
1957 – 1958 (succeeded by Morning Talisman)
|
| Fenman
|
BR[39]
|
Template:Stnlink – Template:Stnlink; after 1969 to Template:Stnlink
|
1949 – 1968
|
Fife Coast Express[39] (Ran as Fifeshire Coast Express 1912 – 1924)[40]
|
NBR / LNER / BR
|
St Andrews – Template:Stnlink
|
1948 – 1959
|
| Flying Dutchman
|
GWR (original)+BER
|
Template:Stnlink – Template:Stnlink
|
1849 – 1892
|
| Flying Scotsman[4][5][9]
|
GNR+NER+NBR / LNER / BR / GNER / NXEC / East Coast / VTEC / LNER
|
Template:Stnlink – Template:Stnlink From May 2011: Edinburgh to London, one way only[41]
|
1862 – present[42]
|
| Flying Carolean[43]
|
GWR
|
Template:Stnlink – Template:Stnlink
|
2023 – present[43]
|
| Golden Arrow[8][9][10][15] (boat train)
|
SR / BR
|
Template:Stnlink – Template:Stnlink or Template:Stnlink
|
1929 – 1972
|
| Golden Hind
|
BR / GWR
|
Template:Stnlink – Template:Stnlink
|
1964 – present
|
| Granite City[9][10]
|
? / BR
|
Template:Stnlink – Glasgow Buchanan Street
|
1933 – 1939; 1948 –
|
| Harrogate Pullman[44]
|
LNER
|
Template:Stnlink – Template:Stnlink and Template:Stnlink
|
1923 – 1928 (Succeeded by the West Riding Pullman)
|
| Harrogate Sunday Pullman[15][21]
|
BR
|
Template:Stnlink – Template:Stnlink and Template:Stnlink
|
1950s – late 1960s
|
| Heart of Midlothian[4][5]
|
Template:Stnlink – Template:Stnlink
|
1951 – 1968
|
| The HebrideanTemplate:Sfnp
|
LMS / BR
|
Template:Stnlink – Template:Stnlink
|
1933 – ???? 1965 – ????
|
| Highland Chieftain
|
GNER / VTEC /LNER
|
Template:Stnlink – Template:Stnlink
|
1984–present[45]
|
| Highlandman
|
LNER
|
Template:Stnlink Template:Stnlink Template:Stnlink – Template:Stnlink
|
1927 – 1939[46]
|
| Hook Continental (boat train)
|
LNER / BR
|
Template:Stnlink – Harwich Parkeston Quay
|
1927 – 1939; 1945 – 1987 (Succeeded by Admiraal de Ruijter)[14]
|
| Hull Executive
|
BR / GNER / NXEC / East Coast / VTEC
|
Hull – Template:Stnlink
|
1978–2015
|
| Inter-CityTemplate:Sfn
|
BR
|
Template:Stnlink – Template:Stnlink
|
1950–1965
|
| Irish Mail[9] (boat train)
|
LNWR / LMS / BR / Virgin
|
Template:Stnlink – Template:Stnlink
|
1849 – 1985, 1990s – 2002
|
| Irishman[9][10] (boat train)
|
BR
|
Template:Stnlink – Template:Stnlink
|
1951 ?
|
| John O'GroatTemplate:Sfnp
|
LMS
|
Inverness – – WickTemplate:Sfnp
|
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[47] – 1939; 1945 – 1965
|
| Lancastrian[26][27]
|
Template:Stnlink – Template:Stnlink
|
1928 – 1939; 1957 – 1962
|
| The Lewisman
|
LMS
|
Template:Stnlink – Template:Stnlink
|
1933 – 1939
|
| Liverpool Pullman
|
BR
|
Template:Stnlink – London Euston
|
1966 – 1974
|
| Loreley (boat train)[13]
|
Template:Stnlink – Template:Stnlink – Template:Stnlink – Harwich Parkeston Quay
|
1988 – 1992
|
| Man of Kent[10][48]
|
Template:Stnlink – Dover, Deal, Sandwich and Template:Stnlink
|
1953 – 1961
|
| Manchester Pullman
|
BR / Virgin
|
Template:Stnlink – London Euston
|
1966 – 1990s
|
| Mancunian[26]Template:Sfn
|
LMS / BR
|
Template:Stnlink – Template:Stnlink
|
1927 – 1966
|
| The Manxman[47]
|
Template:Stnlink – Template:Stnlink
|
1927 – 1966
|
| Master Cutler[10]
|
LNER / BR / MML / EMR
|
Template:Stnlink – Template:Stnlink; after 1958 to Template:Stnlink, later to St Pancras;[15] after privatisation from Template:Stnlink to Template:Stnlink via Template:Stnlink. From 2008 no longer from Leeds but again starting at Sheffield.
|
1947 – present
|
| Mayflower[49]
|
BR / GWR
|
Template:Stnlink and Template:Stnlink – Template:Stnlink
|
1957 – present
|
| The Merchant Venturer[9][10]
|
Template:Stnlink – Template:Stnlink and Template:Stnlink
|
1951 – present
|
| Merseyside Express[10]
|
BR
|
Template:Stnlink – Template:Stnlink
|
1949[28] – 1966
|
| Midland Pullman[15]Template:Efn-lr
|
Template:Stnlink – Template:Stnlink with midday infill Template:Stnlink – Template:Stnlink
|
1960–1966
|
| Mid-Day Scot[12]
|
LMS / BR
|
Template:Stnlink – Template:Stnlink
|
1927 – 1965
|
| Midlands Express
|
BR / MML
|
Template:Stnlink – Template:Stnlink
|
1999 – 2008
|
| Night Ferry
|
SR / BR
|
Template:Stnlink – Paris Nord) later also to Brussels (Midi/Zuid) after 1948 also second-class coaches as far as Template:Stnlink
|
1936 – 1980
|
| Night Riviera
|
GWR
|
Template:Stnlink – Template:Stnlink
|
19th century – present
|
| Night Scot[50]
|
LNWR / BR
|
London Euston – Template:Stnlink (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 – Template:Stnlink (sleeper train)
|
1930s to transfer of all Scottish sleepers to Euston
|
| Norfolk Coast Express
|
GER
|
Template:Stnlink – Cromer
|
1907 – 1914
|
| The Norfolkman
|
BR
|
Template:Stnlink – Template:Stnlink
|
1947 – 1962; 1993 – 2000
|
| Norseman[51]
|
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[9][10]
|
Template:Stnlink – Template:Stnlink
|
1952 – 1968; 1972 – 1975
|
| Northern Irishman (sleeper train)[52]
|
Template:Stnlink – Template:Stnlink
|
1952 – 1966
|
| Northern Lights
|
GNER / NXEC / VTEC
|
Template:Stnlink – Template:Stnlink
|
present
|
| The Northumbrian[5][20]
|
BR
|
London King's Cross – Newcastle
|
1949 – 1964
|
| OrcadianTemplate:Sfnp
|
LMS
|
Inverness – to Wick
|
1936 – 1939
|
| Olympic Javelin
|
Southeastern High Speed
|
Template:Stnlink – Template:Stnlink
|
2012 – present
|
| Palatine
|
LMS / BR
|
Template:Stnlink – Template:Stnlink
|
1938 – 1964
|
| Peaks Express
|
LMS
|
1938–1939
|
| Pembroke Coast Express[10]
|
BR / GWR
|
Template:Stnlink – Template:Stnlink
|
1953 – present
|
| Pines Express[53]
|
SR and LMS / BR
|
Template:Stnlink (or Template:Stnlink), Liverpool and Template:Stnlink – Template:Stnlink and Template:Stnlink
|
1927 – 1967; revived in the 1980s/90s
|
| Premier Service
|
ATW / TfW
|
Template:Stnlink – Template:Stnlink and return
|
2008 – present
|
| Pullman Limited Express (Pullman train)[54]
|
LBSCR
|
Template:Stnlink – Template:Stnlink (via Horsham route)
|
1881 – 1887
|
| Queen of Scots (Pullman train)[4][5][9][10][21]
|
LNER / BR
|
Template:Stnlink – Template:Stnlink via Template:Stnlink and Template:Stnlink
|
1927 – 1939; 1948 – 1978
|
| The Red Dragon[10][55]
|
BR / GWR
|
Template:Stnlink – Template:Stnlink
|
1950 – present
|
| The Red Rose[56]
|
BR
|
Template:Stnlink – Template:Stnlink
|
1951 – 1966
|
| Robin Hood
|
BR / MML / EMR
|
Template:Stnlink – Template:Stnlink
|
1958 – present
|
| Royal Duchy[57]
|
BR / GWR
|
Template:Stnlink – Template:Stnlink and Template:Stnlink
|
1957 – present
|
| Royal Highlander (sleeper train)[58]
|
BR
|
Template:Stnlink – Template:Stnlink
|
1927 – 1996
|
| Royal Scot[9][10]
|
LMS / BR / Virgin / Avanti
|
Template:Stnlink – Template:Stnlink
|
1927 – 1939; 1948 – 2003; 2021 – present
|
| Royal Wessex[59]
|
SR / BR
|
Template:Stnlink – Template:Stnlink, Template:Stnlink and Template:Stnlink
|
1951 – 1967
|
| Saint David[60]
|
GWR
|
Template:Stnlink – Template:Stnlink
|
present
|
| The Scandinavian[61]
|
BR
|
Template:Stnlink – Template:Stnlink
|
1950
|
| St Mungo[10]
|
BR
|
Template:Stnlink – Glasgow Buchanan Street
|
1948 – present
|
| Scarborough Flyer[9][21]
|
Template:Stnlink – Template:Stnlink
|
1927 – 1963
|
| Sheffield Continental
|
EMR
|
Template:Stnlink – Template:Stnlink (one way only)
|
2008–present
|
| Silver Jubilee[62]
|
LNER/BR
|
Template:Stnlink – Newcastle / Template:Stnlink (1977)
|
1935 – 1939; 1977
|
| South Wales Pullman[63][15]Template:Efn-lr
|
BR
|
Template:Stnlink – Template:Stnlink
|
1955–1966
|
| South Yorkshireman[10]
|
Template:Stnlink – Template:Stnlink – Template:Stnlink
|
1948–1960
|
| South Yorkshireman
|
EMR
|
Template:Stnlink – Template:Stnlink
|
2008 – present
|
| Southern Belle (Pullman train)
|
LBSCR / SR
|
Template:Stnlink – Template:Stnlink
|
1908 – 1934
|
| Sunny South Express[64]
|
LNWR+LBSCR / LMS+SR
|
Template:Stnlink – Template:Stnlink
|
1905 – 1939
|
| Sussex Scot
|
BR / Virgin CrossCountry
|
Template:Stnlink – Template:Stnlink Template:Stnlink – Template:Stnlink
|
1988 – 2002
|
| Talisman[4][5]
|
BR
|
Template:Stnlink – Template:Stnlink
|
1956 – 1991
|
| The Tees Thames[20]
|
London King's Cross – Template:Stnlink – Template:Stnlink
|
1959 – 1961
|
| Tees-Tyne Pullman[10][15][20]
|
London King's Cross – Newcastle
|
1948 – 2004
|
| Thames-Clyde Express
|
LMS / BR
|
Template:Stnlink – Template:Stnlink –Template:Stnlink – Template:Stnlink; before 1966 from Template:Stnlink
|
1927 – 1976
|
Thames Forth Express
|
LMS
|
Template:Stnlink – Template:Stnlink –Template:Stnlink – Template:Stnlink (Re-introduced in 1957 by BR as Waverley)
|
1927 – 1939
|
Thanet Belle[10] (Pullman train) later the Kentish Belle
|
BR
|
London – Margate, Broadstairs and Ramsgate
|
1948 – 1951
|
| Torbay Express[10]
|
GWR (original) / BR / GWR
|
Template:Stnlink – Template:Stnlink
|
1923 – present
|
| The Tynesider[5][20]
|
BR
|
London King's Cross – Newcastle Central (sleeper train)
|
1950 – 1968
|
| Ulster Express[65]
|
LMS BR
|
Template:Stnlink – Template:Stnlink and Template:Stnlink
|
1927 – 1975
|
| Venice-Simplon Orient Express
|
Orient Express
|
Template:Stnlink – Paris Est – Venice Santa Lucia
|
1982 – present
|
| Waverley
|
BR
|
Template:Stnlink – Template:Stnlink – Template:Stnlink – Template:Stnlink (Re-introduction of the LMS service the Thames Forth Express)
|
1957 – 1968
|
| Welsh Dragon/Draig Gymreig
|
Virgin
|
Template:Stnlink – Template:Stnlink
|
2004 – present
|
| Welshman
|
LMS
|
Template:Stnlink – Template:Stnlink portions for Template:Stnlink, Template:Stnlink & Template:Stnlink
|
|
| The Wessex Scot[35]
|
BR / Virgin CrossCountry
|
Template:Stnlink – Template:Stnlink
|
1984 – 2002
|
| West Riding Limited[66]
|
LNER;BR;VTEC;LNER
|
Template:Stnlink – Template:Stnlink (Template:Stnlink from 1978; Template:Stnlink from c.1990)
|
1937 – present
|
| West Riding Pullman[44]
|
LNER
|
Template:Stnlink – Template:Stnlink and Template:Stnlink
|
1928 – 1935; (succeeded by the Yorkshire Pullman)
|
| Weymouth Wizard
|
GWR
|
Template:Stnlink – Template:Stnlink
|
2014 – 2017
|
| White Rose[15]
|
BR
|
Template:Stnlink – Template:Stnlink – Template:Stnlink
|
1949 – 1967
|
| The William Shakespeare[67]
|
BR
|
Template:Stnlink – Template:Stnlink
|
1951
|
| Y Cymro – The Welshman
|
GWR
|
Template:Stnlink and Template:Stnlink
|
2017
|
| Yorkshire Pullman[15][21]
|
BR
|
Template:Stnlink – Hull, Template:Stnlink and Template:Stnlink
|
1935 – 1978
|
| Yorkshire Pullman[68]
|
BR
|
Template:Stnlink – Template:Stnlink
|
1985 – 2004
|
| Zephyr[2]
|
Grand Central
|
Template:Stnlink – Template:Stnlink (one way only)
|
2008[2] – 2010Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
|