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 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
|
? – 1954
|
Armada[6]
|
GWR
|
London Paddington – Plymouth
|
? – present
|
Atlantic Coast Express[7][8][9][10]
|
SR / BR
|
London Waterloo – Plymouth, Ilfracombe, Sidmouth, Exmouth, Bude, Padstow, Torrington
|
1926 – 1948 – 1964
|
Atlantic Coast Express[6]
|
GWR
|
London Paddington – Newquay
|
2008 – present
|
Belfast Boat Express (boat train)[11]
|
BR
|
Manchester Victoria – Heysham and Morecambe
|
? – 1960 – 1975
|
Benjamin Britten[12]
|
BR / NS
|
London Liverpool Street – Harwich Parkeston Quay– ferry – Hoek van Holland Haven – Amsterdam Centraal
|
1987 – 1989[13]
|
Birmingham Pullman[i][14]
|
BR
|
London Paddington – Wolverhampton Low Level
|
1960–1966
|
Bon Accord
|
BR
|
Aberdeen – Glasgow Buchanan Street
|
1948 – 1968
|
Bournemouth Belle (Pullman train)[14]
|
SR / BR
|
London Waterloo – Bournemouth Central/Bournemouth West
|
1931 – 1967
|
Brighton Belle (Pullman train)[14]
|
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)[14][i]
|
BR
|
London Paddington – Bristol Temple Meads
|
1960 – 1973
|
Bristolian[16]
|
GWR (original) / BR / GWR
|
London Paddington – Bristol Temple Meads non-stop[17] (Original) London Paddington to Weston-super-Mare (current)
|
1935 – present
|
Broadsman[18][19]
|
BR
|
London Liverpool Street – Cromer and Sheringham
|
1950 – 1962
|
Caledonian
|
BR
|
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
|
GWR (original) / BR
|
London Paddington (later London Euston) – Aberystwyth London Paddington – Pwllheli
|
1927 – 1991
|
Capitals Limited[9]
|
BR
|
London King's Cross – Aberdeen (non-stop London King's Cross to Edinburgh Waverley)
|
1949 – 1952 (succeeded by Elizabethan)
|
Capitals United Express
|
BR
|
London Paddington – Cardiff Central London Paddington – Fishguard Harbour
|
1956 – 1963
|
Capitals United[6]
|
GWR
|
London Paddington – Swansea
|
2010 – present
|
Carmarthen Bay Express
|
GWR
|
London Paddington – Tenby
|
1927[23] – ????
|
Cathedrals Express
|
GWR (original) / BR / GWR
|
London Paddington – Oxford – Hereford
|
1957 – present
|
Cheltenham Spa Express (also known as The Cheltenham Flyer)[25]
|
GWR (original) / BR / GWR
|
London Paddington – Cheltenham Spa
|
1929 – present
|
Clansman[4]
|
BR
|
Inverness – London Euston via Birmingham New Street
|
1974[26] – ????
|
Comet[9][27][28]
|
BR
|
London Euston – Manchester London Road
|
1949[29] – 1962
|
Cornish Riviera Express[8][9]
|
GWR (original) / BR / GWR
|
London Paddington – Penzance
|
1904 – present
|
Cornish Scot
|
BR / Virgin CrossCountry
|
Glasgow Central – Penzance
|
1985 – 2002
|
Cornishman
|
GWR (original)
|
London Paddington – Penzance
|
1890 – 1904 1935 – 1936
|
Cornishman
|
BR
|
(Bradford Exchange) – Wolverhampton Low Level – Penzance and Kingswear
|
1951 – 1975
|
Cornishman[6]
|
GWR
|
London Paddington – Penzance
|
2006 – present
|
Coronation[31]
|
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
|
Bristol Temple Meads – Great Malvern
|
May 1884 – May 1997[32]
|
Day Continental (boat train)
|
LNER / BR
|
London Liverpool Street – Harwich Parkeston Quay
|
1946[33] – 1987 (Succeeded by Benjamin Britten)[13]
|
Devon Belle[9] (Pullman train)
|
SR / BR
|
London Waterloo – Ilfracombe London Waterloo – Plymouth
|
1947 – 1954
|
Devon Express[6]
|
GWR
|
London Paddington – Paignton
|
? – present
|
Devon Scot
|
BR / Virgin CrossCountry
|
Aberdeen – Carlisle – Plymouth
|
1988 – 2002
|
Devonian[27]
|
LMS / BR
|
Bradford Forster Square – Sheffield Midland – Bristol Temple Meads (Winter) – Paignton (Summer)
|
1927 – 1960 – 2002
|
Dorset Scot
|
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[19]
|
BR
|
London Liverpool Street – Lowestoft and Yarmouth South Town
|
1950 – 1958
|
Eastern Belle
|
LNER
|
London Liverpool Street – Clacton-on-Sea
|
1929–1939
|
The Elizabethan[2][3][9] (summer only)
|
BR
|
London King's Cross – Edinburgh Waverley (non-stop)[ii]
|
1953 – 1964
|
Emerald Isle Express
|
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[36]
|
BR
|
London Liverpool Street – Clacton
|
1958 – 1968[37]
|
The European
|
BR
|
Edinburgh Waverley and Glasgow Central – Harwich Parkeston Quay
|
1983 – 1988
|
Fair Maid[2]
|
BR
|
London King's Cross – Perth
|
1957 – 1958 (succeeded by Morning Talisman)
|
Fenman
|
BR[38]
|
London Liverpool Street – Hunstanton after 1969 to King's Lynn
|
1949 – 1968
|
Fife Coast Express[38] (Ran as Fifeshire Coast Express 1912 – 1939)[39]
|
NBR / LNER / BR
|
St Andrews – Glasgow Queen Street
|
1948 – 1959
|
Flying Dutchman
|
GWR (original)+BER
|
London Paddington – Exeter St David's
|
1849 – 1892
|
Flying Scotsman[2][3][8]
|
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[40]
|
1862 – present[41]
|
Golden Arrow[7][8][9][14] (boat train)
|
SR / BR
|
London Victoria – Dover Priory or Folkestone Harbour
|
1929 – 1972
|
Golden Hind
|
BR / GWR
|
London Paddington – Penzance
|
1964 – present
|
Granite City[8][9]
|
? / BR
|
Aberdeen – Glasgow Buchanan Street
|
1933 – 1939; 1948 –
|
Harrogate Pullman[42]
|
LNER
|
London King's Cross – Harrogate and Newcastle
|
1923 – 1928 (Succeeded by the West Riding Pullman)
|
Harrogate Sunday Pullman[14][19]
|
BR
|
London King's Cross – Harrogate and Bradford Exchange
|
1950s – late 1960s
|
Heart of Midlothian[2][3]
|
BR
|
London King's Cross – Edinburgh Waverley
|
1951 – 1968
|
The Hebridean
|
LMS / BR
|
Inverness – Kyle of Lochalsh
|
1933 – ???? 1965 – ????
|
Highland Chieftain
|
GNER / VTEC / LNER
|
Inverness – London King's Cross
|
1984–present[44]
|
Highlandman
|
LNER
|
Fort William Perth Inverness – London King's Cross
|
1927 – 1939[45]
|
Hook Continental (boat train)
|
LNER / BR
|
London Liverpool Street – Harwich Parkeston Quay
|
1927 – 1939; 1945 – 1987 (Succeeded by Admiraal de Ruijter)[13]
|
Hull Executive
|
BR / GNER / NXEC / East Coast / VTEC
|
Hull – London King's Cross
|
1978–2015
|
Inter-City
|
BR
|
London Paddington – Wolverhampton Low Level
|
1950–1965
|
Irish Mail[8] (boat train)
|
LNWR / LMS / BR / Virgin
|
London Euston – Holyhead
|
1849 – 1985, 1990s – 2002
|
Irishman[8][9] (boat train)
|
BR
|
Glasgow St Enoch – Stranraer
|
1951 ?
|
John O'Groat
|
LMS
|
Inverness – to Wick
|
1936 – 39
|
Kentish Belle (Pullman train) formerly the Thanet Belle
|
BR
|
London – to Margate, Broadstairs and Ramsgate
|
1951 – 58
|
Lakes Express
|
LMS / BR
|
London Euston – Windermere, Keswick, Workington
|
1927[47] – 1939 1945 – 1965
|
Lancastrian[27][28]
|
LMS / BR
|
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 and vice versa
|
1966 – 1974
|
Loreley (boat train)[12]
|
BR
|
Blackpool North – Manchester Piccadilly – Nottingham – Harwich Parkeston Quay
|
1988 – 1992
|
Man of Kent[9][48]
|
BR
|
London Charing Cross – Dover, Deal, Sandwich and Margate
|
1953 – 1961
|
Manchester Pullman
|
BR / Virgin
|
Manchester Piccadilly – London Euston and vice versa
|
1966 – 1990s
|
Mancunian[27]
|
LMS / BR
|
Manchester London Road – London Euston
|
1927 – 1966
|
The Manxman[47]
|
LMS / BR
|
Liverpool Lime Street – London Euston
|
1927 – 1966
|
Master Cutler[9]
|
LNER / BR / MML / EMR
|
Sheffield Victoria – London Marylebone after 1958 to London King's Cross, later to St Pancras[14] after privatisation from Leeds to London St Pancras via Sheffield. From 2008 no longer from Leeds starting again at Sheffield.
|
1947 – present
|
Mayflower[50]
|
BR / GWR
|
Kingswear and Plymouth – London Paddington
|
1957 – present
|
The Merchant Venturer[8][9]
|
BR / GWR
|
London Paddington – Bristol Temple Meads and Weston-super-Mare
|
1951 – present
|
Merchant Venturer
|
BR / GWR
|
London Paddington – Penzance via Bristol Temple Meads
|
2008 – 2015
|
Merseyside Express[9]
|
BR
|
London Euston – Liverpool Lime Street
|
1949[29] – 1966
|
Midland Pullman[14][i]
|
BR
|
Manchester Central – London St Pancras with midday infill London St Pancras – Nottingham
|
1960–1966
|
Mid-Day Scot[11]
|
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 King's Cross – Edinburgh Waverley (sleeper train)
|
1930s to transfer of all Scottish sleepers to Euston Jan 2016 – Mar 2016
|
Norfolk Coast Express
|
GER
|
London Liverpool Street – Cromer
|
1907 – 1914
|
The Norfolkman
|
BR
|
Sheringham – London Liverpool Street
|
1947 – 1962; 1993 – 2000
|
Norseman
|
BR
|
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[8][9]
|
BR
|
Glasgow Queen Street – Leeds
|
1952 – 1968; 1972 – 1975
|
Northern Irishman (sleeper train)[51]
|
BR
|
London Euston – Stranraer Harbour
|
1952 – 1966
|
Northern Lights
|
GNER / NXEC / VTEC
|
Aberdeen – London King's Cross
|
present
|
The Northumbrian[3][18]
|
BR
|
London King's Cross – Newcastle
|
1949 – 1964
|
Orcadian
|
LMS
|
Inverness – to Wick
|
1936 – 1939
|
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[9]
|
BR / GWR
|
London Paddington – Pembroke Dock
|
1953 – present
|
Pines Express[52]
|
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)[53]
|
LBSCR
|
London Victoria – Brighton (via Horsham route)
|
1881 – 1887
|
Queen of Scots (Pullman train)[2][3][8][9][19]
|
LNER / BR
|
Glasgow Queen Street – London King's Cross via Harrogate and Leeds Central
|
1927 – 1939; 1948 – 1978
|
The Red Dragon[9][54]
|
BR / GWR
|
London Paddington – Carmarthen
|
1950 – present
|
The Red Rose
|
BR
|
London Euston – Liverpool Lime Street
|
1951 – 1966
|
Robin Hood
|
BR / MML / EMR
|
Nottingham – London St Pancras
|
1958 – present
|
Royal Duchy[55]
|
BR / GWR
|
London Paddington – Penzance and Kingswear
|
1957 – present
|
Royal Highlander (sleeper train)[56]
|
BR
|
London Euston – Inverness
|
1927 – 1996
|
Royal Scot[8][9]
|
LMS / BR / Virgin
|
Glasgow Central – London Euston
|
1927 – 1939; 1948 – 2003
|
Royal Wessex[57]
|
SR / BR
|
London Waterloo – Bournemouth Central, Weymouth and Swanage
|
1951 – 1967
|
Saint David
|
GWR (original) / BR / GWR
|
London Paddington – Swansea
|
present
|
St Mungo[9]
|
BR
|
Aberdeen – Glasgow Buchanan Street
|
1948 – present
|
Scarborough Flyer[8][19]
|
BR
|
London King's Cross – Scarborough
|
1927 – 1963
|
Sheffield Continental
|
EMR
|
Sheffield – London St Pancras (one way only)
|
2008–present
|
Silver Jubilee[58]
|
LNER/BR
|
London King's Cross – Newcastle / Edinburgh Waverley (1977)
|
1935 – 1939; 1977
|
South Wales Pullman[14][i]
|
BR
|
London Paddington – Swansea
|
1960–1966
|
South Yorkshireman[9]
|
BR
|
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
|
LNWR+LBSCR / LMSR+SR
|
Liverpool Lime Street – Brighton
|
1905 – 1939
|
Sussex Scot
|
BR / Virgin CrossCountry
|
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 King's Cross – Middlesbrough – Saltburn
|
1959 – 1961
|
Tees-Tyne Pullman[9][14][18]
|
BR
|
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 – 1975
|
Thames Forth Express
|
LMS
|
Edinburgh Waverley – Carlisle –Leeds – London St Pancras (Re-introduced in 1957 by BR as Waverley)
|
1927 – 1939
|
Thanet Belle[9] (Pullman train) later the Kentish Belle
|
BR
|
London – Margate, Broadstairs and Ramsgate
|
1948 – 1951
|
Torbay Express[9]
|
GWR (original) / BR / GWR
|
London Paddington – Paignton
|
1923 – present
|
The Tynesider[3][18]
|
BR
|
London King's Cross – Newcastle Central (sleeper train)
|
1950 – 1968
|
Ulster Express[59]
|
LMS 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 – 2019
|
Wandle Thames Express
|
London Overground
|
West Croydon – Highbury & Islington
|
2011 – 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
|
|
London Paddington – Llandudno London Paddington – Porthmadog Harbour London Paddington – Pwllheli
|
|
The Wessex Scot
|
BR / Virgin CrossCountry
|
Poole – Glasgow Central
|
1984 – 2002
|
West Riding Limited[60]
|
LNER BR VTEC LNER
|
London King's Cross – Bradford Forster Square
|
1937 – present
|
West Riding Pullman[42]
|
LNER
|
London King's Cross – Harrogate and Newcastle
|
1928 – 1935; (Succeeded by the Yorkshire Pullman)
|
Weymouth Wizard
|
GWR
|
Bristol Temple Meads – Weymouth
|
2014 – present
|
White Rose[14]
|
BR
|
Bradford Exchange – Leeds – London St Pancras
|
1949 – 1967
|
The William Shakespeare[61]
|
BR
|
London Paddington – Stratford-upon-Avon
|
1951
|
Yorkshire Pullman[14][19]
|
BR
|
London King's Cross – Hull, Bradford Forster Square and Harrogate
|
1935 – 1978
|
Yorkshire Pullman[62]
|
BR
|
London King's Cross – Leeds
|
1995 – 2004
|
Zephyr
|
Grand Central
|
Sunderland – London King's Cross (one way only)
|
2010
|