List of named passenger trains of the United Kingdom

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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.

Train Name Railway Train Endpoints Operated
21st Century Limited Grand Central London King's Cross – Sunderland (one way only) 2010
Aberdonian[1][2][3] BR
Serco		 Aberdeen – London King's Cross
(sleeper service - later Night Aberdonian)[4]		 1927 – ?2012
Jan 2016 – March 2016
Aberdonian BR Aberdeen – London King's Cross
(daytime High Speed Train 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[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 GWR London Paddington – Newquay 2008 – present
Belfast Boat Express (boat train)[10] BR Manchester Victoria – Heysham and Morecambe  ? – 1960 – 1975
Benjamin Britten[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 (original) / BR / GWR 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) Caledonian Sleeper 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 (original) / 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 GWR London Paddington – Swansea 2010 – Present
Carmarthen Bay Express GWR London Paddington – Tenby 1920s
Cathedrals Express[22] GWR (original) / BR / GWR London Paddington – Oxford – Hereford 1957 – present
Cheltenham Spa Express
(also known as The Cheltenham Flyer)[23]		 GWR (original) / BR / GWR 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 (original) / BR / GWR London Paddington – Penzance 1904 – present
Cornish Scot BR / Virgin Glasgow Central – Penzance 1985 – 2002
Cornishman GWR (original) 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 (original) / 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 / National Express East Anglia / Abellio 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
Enterprise GNR(I) / UTA+CIÉ / NIR+IÉ Belfast Central (Belfast Great Victoria Street until 1976) & Dublin Connolly 1947–Present
Essex Coast Express[32] BR London Liverpool Street – Clacton 1958 - 1968[33]
Fair Maid[2] BR London King's Cross – Perth 1957-1958 (succeeded by Morning Talisman)
Fenman BR[34] London Liverpool Street – Hunstanton
after 1969 to King's Lynn		 1949 – 1968
Fife Coast Express[34]
(Ran as Fifeshire Coast Express 1912 – 1939)[35]		 NBR / LNER / BR St Andrews – Glasgow Queen Street 1948 – 1959
Flying Dutchman GWR (original)+BER London Paddington – Exeter St Davids 1849 – 1892
Flying Scotsman[2][3][7] GNR+NER+NBR / LNER / BR / GNER /
Virgin Trains East Coast		 London King's Cross – Edinburgh Waverley
From May 2011: Edinburgh to London, one way only[36]		 1862 – present[37]
Golden Arrow[6][7][8][13] (boat train) SR / BR London Victoria – Dover Priory or Folkestone Harbour 1929 – 1972
Golden Hind GWR 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[38]
The Highlandman LNER Fort William Perth Inverness – London King's Cross  ????–1930–????[39]
Hook Continental (boat train) LNER / BR London Liverpool Street – Harwich Parkeston Quay 1927–1939, 1945–1987 (Succeeded by Admiraal de Ruijter)[12]
Hull Executive BR / GNER
Virgin Trains East Coast		 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
Lakes Express, The LMS / BR London Euston – Windermere, Keswick, Workington
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][40] 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][41] 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[42] BR / GWR Kingswear and Plymouth – London Paddington 1957 – present
Merchant Venturer[7][8] BR / GWR London Paddington – Bristol Temple Meads and Weston-super-Mare 1951 – present
Merchant Venturer BR / GWR 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 second-class coaches as far as Dover Western Docks		 1936 – 1980
Night Riviera GWR London Paddington – Penzance 19th Century – present
Night Scotsman[2][3] LNER / BR
Serco		 London Kings Cross – Edinburgh Waverley (sleeper train) 1930s to transfer of all Scottish sleepers to Euston
Jan 2016 to Mar 2016
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)[43] BR London Euston – Stranraer Harbour 1952 – 1966
Northern Lights GNER / NXEC / VTEC Aberdeen – London King's Cross present
The Northumbrian[3][18] BR London Kings Cross – Newcastle Central 1949 – 1964
The 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 Manchester Central – London St Pancras 1938–1939
Pembroke Coast Express[8] BR / GWR London Paddington – Pembroke Dock 1953 – present
Pines Express[44] 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)[45] 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][46] BR / GWR London Paddington – Carmarthen 1950 – present
Robin Hood BR / MML / EMT Nottingham – London St Pancras 1958 – present
Royal Duchy[47] BR / GWR London Paddington – Penzance and Kingswear 1957 – present
Royal Highlander (sleeper train)[48] BR London Euston – Inverness 1927 – 1996
Royal Scot[7][8] LNWR / LMS /BR / Virgin Glasgow Central – London Euston 1862 – 1939
1948 – 2003
Royal Wessex[49] SR / BR London Waterloo – Bournemouth Central, Weymouth and Swanage 1951 – 1967
Saint David GWR (original) / BR / GWR 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[50] LNER/BR London King's Cross – Newcastle Central/ Edinburgh Waverley (1977) 1935 – 1939 & 1977
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
(also known as 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 (original) / BR / GWR London Paddington – Paignton 1923 – present
The Tynesider[3][18] BR London Kings Cross – Newcastle Central (sleeper train) 1950 – 1968
Ulster Express[51] 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
The Wessex Scot BR / Virgin Poole – Glasgow Central 1984 – 2002
Weymouth Wizard GWR Bristol Temple Meads – Weymouth 2014 – present
White Rose[13] BR Bradford Exchange – Leeds City – London St Pancras 1949 – 1967
William Shakespeare[52] BR London Paddington – Stratford-upon-Avon 1951
Y Gerallt Gymro / Premier Service[53] 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[54] 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

  1. ↑ LNER Passenger Services Timetable 7 October 1946 to 4 May 1947
  2. ↑ 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. ↑ 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. ↑ 4.0 4.1 British Rail Passenger Timetable 17 May 1982 to 15 May 1983
  5. ↑ Allen, Cecil J. (1947);Titled Trains of Great Britain ; London, Ian Allan Ltd. ; Page 67
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  7. ↑ 7.00 7.01 7.02 7.03 7.04 7.05 7.06 7.07 7.08 7.09 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. ↑ 8.00 8.01 8.02 8.03 8.04 8.05 8.06 8.07 8.08 8.09 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 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  9. ↑ Bradshaw's January 1960, p. 468.
  10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 Bradshaw's January 1960, p. 590.
  11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  12. ↑ 12.0 12.1 12.2 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  13. ↑ 13.00 13.01 13.02 13.03 13.04 13.05 13.06 13.07 13.08 13.09 13.10 13.11 Advertised as a Pullman Train in November 1965 issue of the ABC Railway Guide
  14. ↑ 14.0 14.1 14.2 14.3 One of the Blue Pullman trains
  15. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  16. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  17. ↑ Bradshaw's January 1960, p. 24.
  18. ↑ 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. ↑ 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. ↑ 20.0 20.1 Bradshaw's January 1960, p. 201.
  21. ↑ Bradshaw's January 1960, p. 141.
  22. ↑ Bradshaw's January 1960, p. 227.
  23. ↑ Bradshaw's January 1960, p. 159.
  24. ↑ 24.0 24.1 24.2 24.3 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  25. ↑ 25.0 25.1 Bradshaw's January 1960, p. 631.
  26. ↑ Bradshaw's January 1960, p. 207.
  27. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  28. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  29. ↑ Bradshaw's January 1960, pp. 110, 700.
  30. ↑ Advertised as non-stop in summer 1962 but stopped for crew change at Newcastle after introduction of Deltic traction
  31. ↑ Bradshaw's January 1960, p. 618.
  32. ↑ Railway Magazine July 1958 p. 443
  33. ↑ List of BR named trains
  34. ↑ 34.0 34.1 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  35. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  36. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  37. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  38. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  39. ↑ Nottingham Evening Post - Friday 8 August 1930
  40. ↑ Bradshaw's January 1960, p. 291.
  41. ↑ Bradshaw's January 1960, p. 629.
  42. ↑ Bradshaw's January 1960, p. 31.
  43. ↑ Bradshaw's January 1960, p. 572.
  44. ↑ Bradshaw's January 1960, p. 492.
  45. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  46. ↑ Bradshaw's January 1960, p. 32.
  47. ↑ Bradshaw's January 1960, p. 69.
  48. ↑ Bradshaw's January 1960, p. 574.
  49. ↑ Bradshaw's January 1960, p. 440.
  50. ↑ http://napier-chronicles.co.uk/silver_jubilee.htm
  51. ↑ Bradshaw's January 1960, p. 571.
  52. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  53. ↑ http://www.arrivatrainswales.co.uk/PremierService/
  54. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.

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