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List of named passenger trains of the United Kingdom

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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.

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21st Century Limited{{Cite news |last=Stead|first=Mark|date=13 March 2008|title=Rail operator in tickets hike|url=https://www.yorkpress.co.uk/news/2115415.rail-operator-in-tickets-hike/|access-date=2021-01-18 |work=York Press }}{{Cite magazine|last=|first=|date=22 March 2008|title=Grand Central|url=https://www.atoctravelagents.org/clientfiles/File/NRE/NE_362.pdf|magazine=Newsrail Express|publisher=Association of Train Operating Companies|issue=362|page=12|pages=|doi=|pmid=|access-date=13 January 2020}}

| Grand Central

| {{Stnlink|London King's Cross}} – {{stnlink|Sunderland}} (one way only)

| 2008 – 2010{{Citation needed|date=January 2021}}

Aberdonian

| BR
Serco

| {{stnlink|Aberdeen}} – {{Stnlink|London King's Cross}} (sleeper service - later Night Aberdonian)

| 1927 – ?2012
Jan – Mar 2016

Aberdonian

| BR

| {{Stnlink|Aberdeen}} – {{Stnlink|London King's Cross}} (daytime InterCity 125 service)

| ?1977 – 1994

Admiraal de Ruijter

| BR / NS

| {{Stnlink|London Liverpool Street}} – Harwich Parkeston Quay – ferry – {{Stnlink|Hoek van Holland Haven}} – {{Stnlink|Amsterdam Centraal}}

| 1987 – 1989

Antwerp Continental (boat train)

| LNER

| {{Stnlink|London Liverpool Street}} – Harwich Parkeston Quay – Harwich Town{{sfnp|Allen|1947|p=67}}

| ? – 1954

Armada

| GWR

| {{stnlink|London Paddington}} – {{stnlink|Plymouth}}

| ? – present

Atlantic Coast ExpressBradshaw's January 1960, p. 468.

| SR / BR

| {{stnlink|London Waterloo}} – {{stnlink|Plymouth}}, {{stnlink|Ilfracombe|Devon}}, {{Stnlink|Sidmouth}}, {{Stnlink|Exmouth}}, {{Stnlink|Bude}}, Padstow, {{Stnlink|Torrington}}

| 1926 –
1948 – 1964

Atlantic Coast Express{{cite web | url = https://www.gwr.com/about-us/meet-our-trains | title = Meet our trains | publisher = Great Western Railway | access-date = 2018-06-29 | archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20180629155312/https://www.gwr.com/about-us/meet-our-trains | archive-date= 29 June 2018}}

| GWR

| {{stnlink|London Paddington}} – {{stnlink|Newquay}}

| 2008 – present

Belfast Boat Express (boat train)Bradshaw's January 1960, p. 590.

| BR

| {{stnlink|Manchester Victoria}} – {{stnlink|Heysham}} and {{Stnlink|Morecambe}}

| ? – 1960 – 1975

Benjamin Britten{{cite magazine |last=Semmens |first=P.W.B. |title=Blackpool for the Continent |magazine=Railway Magazine |date=October 1988 |location=London |page=638}}

| BR / NS

| {{Stnlink|London Liverpool Street}} – Harwich Parkeston Quay– ferry – {{Stnlink|Hoek van Holland Haven}} – {{Stnlink|Amsterdam Centraal}}

| 1987 – 1989{{cite book |last=Cowley |first=Ian |year=1987 |title=Anglia East - The Transformation of a Railway |location=Newton Abbot |publisher=David and Charles |page=64 |isbn=0-7153-8978-5 }}

Birmingham Pullman{{efn-lr|name=BluPul|One of the Blue Pullman trains.}}

| rowspan="2" | BR

| {{Stnlink|London Paddington}} – {{Stnlink|Wolverhampton Low Level}}

| 1960 – 1966

Bon Accord{{cite news | url = https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000578/19490422/028/0002 | title = The London Letter

| page = 2 | date = 1949-04-22 | website = Aberdeen Press and Journal | quote = 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. | access-date = 2023-04-30}}{{subscription required | via = britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk}}

| {{Stnlink|Aberdeen}} – Glasgow Buchanan Street

| 1949 – 1968

Bournemouth Belle (Pullman train)

| SR / BR

| {{Stnlink|London Waterloo}} – {{stnlink|Bournemouth Central}}/{{stnlink|Bournemouth West}}

| 1931 – 1967

Brighton Belle (Pullman train)

| SR / BR

| rowspan="3" | {{stnlink|London Victoria}} – {{stnlink|Brighton}}

| 1934 – 1972

Brighton Limited (Pullman train)

| rowspan="2" | LBSCR

| 1887 – 1908

Brighton Pullman Limited (Pullman train){{cite magazine |url = http://scm.pastfinders.org/scm_29_pullman.htm | title = By Pullman to Brighton | first = H.C.P. | last = Smail |magazine=Sussex County Magazine | year = 1955 | volume = 29 | location = Eastbourne}}

| 1898 – 1908

Bristol Pullman (Pullman train){{efn-lr|name=BluPul}}

| BR

| {{Stnlink|London Paddington}} – {{Stnlink|Bristol Temple Meads}}

| 1960 – 1973

Bristolian

| GWR (original) / BR / GWR

| {{Stnlink|London Paddington}} – {{stnlink|Bristol Temple Meads}} non-stopBradshaw's January 1960, p. 24. (original); {{Stnlink|London Paddington}} to {{Stnlink|Weston-super-Mare}} (current)

| 1935 – present

Broadsman

| rowspan="2" | BR

| {{Stnlink|London Liverpool Street}} – {{stnlink|Cromer}} and {{stnlink|Sheringham}}

| 1950 – 1962

Caledonian{{sfn|Bradshaw's (January 1960)|page=590}}

| {{stnlink|Glasgow Central}} – {{stnlink|London Euston}}

|1957 – 1964

Caledonian Sleeper (night train)

| InterCity West Coast /
ScotRail (British Rail) / ScotRail (National Express) / First ScotRail / Caledonian Sleeper

| {{Stnlink|London Euston}} – {{Stnlink|Edinburgh Waverley}}
{{stnlink|London Euston}} – {{Stnlink|Aberdeen}}
{{Stnlink|London Euston}} – {{Stnlink|Fort William}}
{{Stnlink|London Euston}} – {{Stnlink|Glasgow Central}}
{{Stnlink|London Euston}} – {{stnlink|Inverness}}

| 1996 – present

Cambrian Coast Express{{sfn|Bradshaw's (January 1960)|page=201}}

| GWR (original) / BR

| {{Stnlink|London Paddington}} (later {{Stnlink|London Euston}}) – {{Stnlink|Aberystwyth}}
{{Stnlink|London Paddington}} – {{Stnlink|Pwllheli}}

| 1927 – 1991

Capitals Limited

| rowspan="2" | BR

| London King's Cross – {{Stnlink|Aberdeen}}
(non-stop London King's Cross to Edinburgh Waverley)

| 1949 – 1952 (succeeded by Elizabethan)

Capitals United Express{{sfn|Bradshaw's (January 1960)|page=141}}

| {{Stnlink|London Paddington}} – {{Stnlink|Cardiff Central}}
{{Stnlink|London Paddington}} – {{Stnlink|Fishguard Harbour}}

| 1956 – 1963

Capitals United

| GWR

| {{Stnlink|London Paddington}} – {{Stnlink|Swansea}}

| 2010 – present

Carmarthen Bay Express

| GWR

| {{Stnlink|London Paddington}} – {{Stnlink|Tenby}}

| 1927{{cite news |author= |title=G.W.R. Express Titles |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000264/19270709/023/0006 |newspaper=Western Daily Press |location=England |date=9 July 1927 |access-date=19 December 2017 |via=British Newspaper Archive |url-access=subscription }} – ????

Carolean Express{{Cite web|url=https://www.railadvent.co.uk/2023/04/london-north-eastern-railway-named-train-celebrates-kings-coronation.html|title=London North Eastern Railway named train celebrates King's Coronation|website=railadvent.co.uk|date=19 April 2023 |language=en-GB|access-date=19 April 2023}}

| LNER

| {{Stnlink|London King's Cross}} – {{Stnlink|Edinburgh Waverley}}

| May 2023 – present

Cathedrals Express{{sfn|Bradshaw's (January 1960)|page=227}}

| BR / GWR

| {{Stnlink|London Paddington}} – {{Stnlink|Oxford}} – {{Stnlink|Hereford}}

| 1957 – present

Cheltenham Spa Express
(also known as The Cheltenham Flyer)Bradshaw's January 1960, p. 159.

| GWR (original) / BR / GWR

| {{Stnlink|London Paddington}} – {{Stnlink|Cheltenham Spa}}

| 1929 – present

Clansman

| BR

| {{Stnlink|Inverness}} – {{Stnlink|London Euston}} via {{Stnlink|Birmingham New Street}}

| 1974{{cite news |author= |title=Clansman |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000578/19751231/362/0018 |newspaper=Aberdeen Press and Journal |location=England |date=31 December 1975 |access-date=19 December 2017 |via=British Newspaper Archive |url-access=subscription }} – 1984

CometBradshaw's January 1960, p. 631.

| BR

| {{Stnlink|London Euston}} – {{Stnlink|Manchester London Road}}

| 1949{{cite news |author= |title=Next Monday Week |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0001934/19490916/133/0006 |newspaper=Rugby Advertiser |location=England |date=16 September 1949 |access-date=13 November 2017 |via=British Newspaper Archive |url-access=subscription }} – 1962

Cornish Riviera Express

| GWR (original) / BR / GWR

| {{Stnlink|London Paddington}} – {{Stnlink|Penzance}}

| 1904 – present

Cornish Scot{{cite news | url = https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0004733/19861230/010/0010 | title = BR line up a new look for InterCity | page = 10 | date = 1986-12-30 | website = South Wales Echo | quote = 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. | access-date = 2023-04-30}}{{subscription required | via = britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk}}

| BR / Virgin CrossCountry

| {{Stnlink|Glasgow Central}} – {{Stnlink|Penzance}}

| 1987 – 2002

Cornishman

| GWR (original)

| {{Stnlink|London Paddington}} – {{Stnlink|Penzance}}

| 1890 – 1904
1935 – 1936

Cornishman{{sfn|Bradshaw's (January 1960)|page=207}}

| BR

| (Bradford Exchange) – {{Stnlink|Wolverhampton Low Level}} – {{Stnlink|Penzance}} and {{Stnlink|Kingswear}}

| 1951 – 1975

Cornishman

| BR

| {{Stnlink|Edinburgh Waverley}} – {{Stnlink|Penzance}}

| 1983 – 2002

Cornishman

| GWR

| {{stnlink|London Paddington}} – {{stnlink|Penzance}}

| 2006 – present

Coronation{{cite book |last1=Hughes |first1=Geoffrey |title=LNER |date=1996 |publisher=Ian Allan |location=Shepperton |isbn=0-7110-1428-0 |page=[https://archive.org/details/lner0000hugh/page/152 152] |edition=3 |url=https://archive.org/details/lner0000hugh/page/152 }}

| LNER

| {{Stnlink|London King's Cross}} – {{Stnlink|Edinburgh Waverley}}

| 1937 – 1939

Coronation Scot

| LMS

| {{Stnlink|Glasgow Central}} – {{Stnlink|London Euston}}

| 1937 – 1939

Cotswolds and Malvern Express

| GWR (original) / BR / Wales & West / GWR

| {{Stnlink|Bristol Temple Meads}} – {{Stnlink|Great Malvern}}
{{Stnlink|London Paddington}} – {{Stnlink|Hereford}}

| May 1884 – May 1997
June 2024 – present{{cite web | url = https://www.gwr.com/-/media/gwr-sc-website/files/plan-journey/timetables/2024/Train-times-2-June-to-14-December/B3-train-times-2-June-to-14-December-2024.pdf | title = GWR - B3 Train Times | year = 2024 | website = GWR | access-date = 2024-10-05 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20240930064138/https://www.gwr.com/-/media/gwr-sc-website/files/plan-journey/timetables/2024/Train-times-2-June-to-14-December/B3-train-times-2-June-to-14-December-2024.pdf | archive-date = 2024-09-30}}

Day Continental (boat train)

| LNER / BR

| {{Stnlink|London Liverpool Street}} – Harwich Parkeston Quay

| 1946{{cite book |last=Haws |first=Duncan |year=1993 |title=Merchant Fleets - Britain's Railway Steamers Eastern and North Western Companies + Zeeland and Stena |location=Hereford |publisher=TCL Publications |page=204 |isbn=0-946378-22-3 }} – 1987 (succeeded by Benjamin Britten)

Devon Belle (Pullman train)

| SR / BR

| {{stnlink|London Waterloo}} – Ilfracombe
{{Stnlink|London Waterloo}} – {{Stnlink|Plymouth}}

| 1947 – 1954

Devon Express

| GWR

| {{stnlink|London Paddington}} – {{stnlink|Paignton}}

| ? – present

Devon Scot{{cite news | url = https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000578/19890421/147/0011 | title = More trains, faster journeys promised | page = 10 | date = 1989-04-21 | website = Aberdeen Press and Journal | quote = The Devon Scot will retimed to leave Aberdeen later at 0900, and still arrive earlier in Plymouth at 2104. | access-date = 2023-04-30}}{{subscription required | via = britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk}}

| BR / Virgin CrossCountry

| {{Stnlink|Aberdeen}} – {{Stnlink|Carlisle}} – {{Stnlink|Plymouth}}

| 1988 – 2002

Devonian{{sfn|Bradshaw's (January 1960)|page=110, 700}}

| LMS / BR

| {{Stnlink|Bradford Forster Square}} (Bradford Exchange from 1967; {{Stnlink|Leeds}} from 1980) – {{Stnlink|Sheffield Midland}} – {{Stnlink|Bristol Temple Meads}} (winter) – {{Stnlink|Paignton}} (summer)

| 1927 – 2002

Dorset Scot{{cite news | url = https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0002471/19911108/136/0019 | title = Welcome to the new high speed service | page = 19 | date = 1991-11-08 | website = Reading Evening Post | quote = 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. | access-date = 2023-04-30}}{{subscription required | via = britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk}}

| BR / Virgin CrossCountry

| {{Stnlink|Poole}} – Newcastle – {{Stnlink|Edinburgh Waverley}}

| 1990 – 2002

East Anglian

| LNER / BR / Anglia / National Express East Anglia / Abellio Greater Anglia

| {{Stnlink|London Liverpool Street}} – {{Stnlink|Norwich}}

| 1937–present

The Easterling

| BR

| {{Stnlink|London Liverpool Street}} – {{stnlink|Lowestoft}} and {{stnlink|Yarmouth South Town}}

| 1950 – 1958

The Elizabethan (summer only)

| rowspan="2" | BR

| {{Stnlink|London King's Cross}} – {{Stnlink|Edinburgh Waverley}} (non-stop){{efn-lr|Advertised as non-stop in summer 1962 but stopped for crew change at Newcastle after introduction of Deltic traction.}}

| 1953 – 1964

Emerald Isle Express{{sfn|Bradshaw's (January 1960)|page=618}}

| {{Stnlink|London Euston}} – {{Stnlink|Llandudno}} and {{Stnlink|Holyhead}}

| 1954 – 1960 – 1975; 1993 – 1997

Enterprise

| GNR(I) / UTA+CIÉ / NIR+IÉ

| {{Stnlink|Belfast Central}} ({{Stnlink|Belfast Great Victoria Street}} until 1976) & {{Stnlink|Dublin Connolly}}

| 1947–present

Essex Coast Express{{cite magazine |magazine=The Railway Magazine |date=July 1958 |page=443 }}

| rowspan="3" | BR

| {{Stnlink|London Liverpool Street}} – {{Stnlink|Clacton}}

| 1958 – 1968{{cite web |url=http://www.britishrailways.info/NAMED%20TRAINS.htm |title=List of BR named trains }}

The European{{cite news | url = https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000400/19830520/070/0004 | title = The 'European' | page = 4 | date = 1983-05-20 | website = Grantham Journal | quote = 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 | access-date = 2023-04-30}}{{subscription required | via = britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk}}

| {{Stnlink|Edinburgh Waverley}} and {{Stnlink|Glasgow Central}} – {{Stnlink|Harwich Parkeston Quay}}

| 1983 – 1988

Fair Maid

| {{Stnlink|London King's Cross}} – Perth

| 1957 – 1958 (succeeded by Morning Talisman)

Fenman

| BR

| {{Stnlink|London Liverpool Street}} – {{Stnlink|Hunstanton}}; after 1969 to {{Stnlink|King's Lynn}}

| 1949 – 1968

Fife Coast Express
(Ran as Fifeshire Coast Express 1912 – 1924)

| NBR / LNER / BR

| St Andrews – {{Stnlink|Glasgow Queen Street}}

| 1948 – 1959

Flying Dutchman

| GWR (original)+BER

| {{stnlink|London Paddington}} – {{Stnlink|Exeter St Davids}}

| 1849 – 1892

Flying Scotsman

| GNR+NER+NBR / LNER / BR / GNER / NXEC / East Coast / VTEC / LNER

| {{Stnlink|London King's Cross}} – {{Stnlink|Edinburgh Waverley}}
From May 2011: Edinburgh to London, one way only{{cite magazine |title=East Coast reports successful start |magazine=Modern Railways |last=Miles |first=Tony |date=July 2011 |location =London |page=14}}

| 1862 – present{{cite book | url = http://www.networkrail.co.uk/browse%20documents/eNRT/May10/timetables/Table26.pdf | title = National Rail Timetable 23 May 2010 - December 2010, Table 26 | page = 4 | publisher = Network Rail}}

Flying Carolean{{Cite web |last=Lydall |first=Ross |date=2023-05-05 |title=The Flying Carolean: Royal train gets era of King Charles III off to high-speed start |url=https://www.standard.co.uk/news/transport/flying-carolean-royal-train-era-king-charles-iii-paddington-gwr-b1079055.html |access-date=2023-05-05 |website=Evening Standard |language=en}}

|GWR

|{{stnlink|London Paddington}} – {{Stnlink|Swansea}}

|2023 – present

Golden Arrow (boat train)

| SR / BR

| {{Stnlink|London Victoria}} – {{Stnlink|Dover Priory}} or {{Stnlink|Folkestone Harbour}}

| 1929 – 1972

Golden Hind

| BR / GWR

| {{Stnlink|London Paddington}} – {{Stnlink|Penzance}}

| 1964 – present

Granite City

| ? / BR

| {{Stnlink|Aberdeen}} – Glasgow Buchanan Street

| 1933 – 1939; 1948 –

Harrogate Pullman{{cite news |author= |title=New Pullman Service |url=http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000324/19351026/036/0004 |newspaper=Hull Daily Mail |location=England |date=26 October 1935 |access-date=17 September 2017 |via=British Newspaper Archive |url-access=subscription }}

| LNER

| {{Stnlink|London King's Cross}} – {{Stnlink|Harrogate}} and {{Stnlink|Newcastle}}

| 1923 – 1928
(Succeeded by the West Riding Pullman)

Harrogate Sunday Pullman

| rowspan="2" | BR

| {{Stnlink|London King's Cross}} – {{Stnlink|Harrogate}} and {{Stnlink|Bradford Exchange}}

| 1950s – late 1960s

Heart of Midlothian

| {{Stnlink|London King's Cross}} – {{Stnlink|Edinburgh Waverley}}

| 1951 – 1968

The Hebridean{{sfnp|Allen|1947|p=95}}

| LMS / BR

| {{Stnlink|Inverness}} – {{Stnlink|Kyle of Lochalsh}}

| 1933 – ????
1965 – ????

Highland Chieftain

| GNER / VTEC /LNER

| {{Stnlink|Inverness}} – {{Stnlink|London King's Cross}}

| 1984–present{{cite book

| url = http://www.networkrail.co.uk/browse%20documents/eNRT/May10/timetables/Table26.pdf | title = National Rail Timetable 23 May 2010 - December 2010, Table 26 | page = 5 | publisher = Network Rail

}}

Highlandman

| LNER

| {{Stnlink|Fort William}} {{Stnlink|Perth|Scotland}} {{Stnlink|Inverness}} – {{Stnlink|London King's Cross}}

| 1927 – 1939{{cite news |newspaper=Nottingham Evening Post |date=8 August 1930 }}

Hook Continental (boat train)

| LNER / BR

| {{Stnlink|London Liverpool Street}} – Harwich Parkeston Quay

| 1927 – 1939; 1945 – 1987 (Succeeded by Admiraal de Ruijter)

Hull Executive

| BR / GNER / NXEC / East Coast / VTEC

| Hull – {{Stnlink|London King's Cross}}

| 1978–2015

Inter-City{{sfn|Bradshaw's (January 1960)|page=201}}

| BR

| {{Stnlink|London Paddington}} – {{Stnlink|Wolverhampton Low Level}}

| 1950–1965

Irish Mail (boat train)

| LNWR / LMS / BR / Virgin

| {{Stnlink|London Euston}} – {{Stnlink|Holyhead}}

| 1849 – 1985, 1990s – 2002

Irishman (boat train)

| BR

| {{Stnlink|Glasgow St Enoch}} – {{Stnlink|Stranraer}}

| 1951 ?

John O'Groat{{sfnp|Allen|1947|p=97}}

| LMS

| Inverness – – Wick{{sfnp|Allen|1947|p=97}}

| 1936 – 39

Kentish Belle (Pullman train)
formerly the Thanet Belle

| BR

| London – – Margate, Broadstairs and Ramsgate

| 1951 – 58

Lakes Express

| rowspan="2" | LMS / BR

| London Euston – Windermere, Keswick, Workington

| 1927{{cite news |author= |title=Summer Services. More and Faster Trains Next Week |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0001084/19270708/158/0008 |newspaper=Derbyshire Advertiser and Journal |location=England |date=8 July 1927 |access-date=13 November 2017 |via=British Newspaper Archive |url-access=subscription }} – 1939; 1945 – 1965

Lancastrian

| {{Stnlink|Manchester London Road}} – {{Stnlink|London Euston}}

| 1928 – 1939; 1957 – 1962

The Lewisman

| LMS

| {{Stnlink|Inverness}} – {{Stnlink|Kyle of Lochalsh}}

| 1933 – 1939

Liverpool Pullman

| rowspan="3" | BR

| {{Stnlink|Liverpool Lime Street}} – London Euston

| 1966 – 1974

Loreley (boat train)

| {{Stnlink|Blackpool North}} – {{Stnlink|Manchester Piccadilly}} – {{Stnlink|Nottingham}} – Harwich Parkeston Quay

| 1988 – 1992

Man of KentBradshaw's January 1960, p. 291.

| {{Stnlink|London Charing Cross}} – Dover, Deal, Sandwich and {{Stnlink|Margate}}

| 1953 – 1961

Manchester Pullman

| BR / Virgin

| {{Stnlink|Manchester Piccadilly}} – London Euston

| 1966 – 1990s

Mancunian{{sfn|Bradshaw's (January 1960)|page=629}}

| rowspan="2" | LMS / BR

| {{Stnlink|Manchester London Road}} – {{Stnlink|London Euston}}

| 1927 – 1966

The Manxman

| {{Stnlink|Liverpool Lime Street}} – {{Stnlink|London Euston}}

| 1927 – 1966

Master Cutler

| LNER / BR / MML / EMR

| {{Stnlink|Sheffield Victoria}} – {{Stnlink|London Marylebone}}; after 1958 to {{Stnlink|London King's Cross}}, later to St Pancras; after privatisation from {{Stnlink|Leeds}} to {{Stnlink|London St Pancras}} via {{Stnlink|Sheffield}}. From 2008 no longer from Leeds but again starting at Sheffield.

| 1947 – present

MayflowerBradshaw's January 1960, p. 31.

| rowspan="2" | BR / GWR

| {{Stnlink|Kingswear}} and {{Stnlink|Plymouth}} – {{Stnlink|London Paddington}}

| 1957 – present

The Merchant Venturer

| {{Stnlink|London Paddington}} – {{Stnlink|Bristol Temple Meads}} and {{Stnlink|Weston-super-Mare}}

| 1951 – present

Merseyside Express

| rowspan="2" | BR

| {{Stnlink|London Euston}} – {{Stnlink|Liverpool Lime Street}}

| 1949 – 1966

Midland Pullman{{efn-lr|name=BluPul}}

| {{Stnlink|Manchester Central}} – {{Stnlink|London St Pancras}}
with midday infill
{{Stnlink|London St Pancras}} – {{Stnlink|Nottingham}}

| 1960–1966

Mid-Day Scot

| LMS / BR

| {{Stnlink|Glasgow Central}} – {{Stnlink|London Euston}}

| 1927 – 1965

Midlands Express

| BR / MML

| {{Stnlink|Sheffield}} – {{Stnlink|London St Pancras}}

| 1999 – 2008

Night Ferry

| SR / BR

| {{Stnlink|London Victoria}} – Paris Nord)
later also to Brussels (Midi/Zuid)
after 1948 also second-class coaches as far as {{Stnlink|Dover Western Docks}}

| 1936 – 1980

Night Riviera

| GWR

| {{Stnlink|London Paddington}} – {{Stnlink|Penzance}}

| 19th century – present

Night Scot{{cite book |last=Allen |first=Cecil J. |author-link= |date=1967 |title=Titled Trains of Great Britain |edition=5th |url= |location=London |publisher=Ian Allan |page=132 |isbn=}}

| LNWR / BR

| London Euston – {{Stnlink|Glasgow Central}} (sleeper train)

| From inauguration in 1927 it ran to Aberdeen, but this was soon after changed to Glasgow.

Night Scotsman

| LNER / BR

| London King's Cross – {{Stnlink|Edinburgh Waverley}} (sleeper train)

| 1930s to transfer of all Scottish sleepers to Euston

Norfolk Coast Express

| GER

| {{Stnlink|London Liverpool Street}} – Cromer

| 1907 – 1914

The Norfolkman

| rowspan="4" | BR

| {{Stnlink|Sheringham}} – {{Stnlink|London Liverpool Street}}

| 1947 – 1962; 1993 – 2000

Norseman{{cite news | url = https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000619/19520902/005/0005 | title = Winter withdrawal of trains | page = 5 | date = 1952-09-02 | website = Birmingham Daily Post | quote = 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 | access-date = 2023-04-30}}{{subscription required | via = britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk}}

| 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

| {{Stnlink|Glasgow Queen Street}} – {{Stnlink|Leeds}}

| 1952 – 1968; 1972 – 1975

Northern Irishman (sleeper train)Bradshaw's January 1960, p. 572.

| {{Stnlink|London Euston}} – {{Stnlink|Stranraer Harbour}}

| 1952 – 1966

Northern Lights

| GNER / NXEC / VTEC

| {{Stnlink|Aberdeen}} – {{Stnlink|London King's Cross}}

| present

The Northumbrian

| BR

| London King's Cross – Newcastle

| 1949 – 1964

Orcadian{{sfnp|Allen|1947|p=97}}

| LMS

| Inverness – to Wick

| 1936 – 1939

Olympic Javelin

|Southeastern High Speed

| {{Stnlink|London St Pancras}} – {{Stnlink|Ashford International}}

| 2012 – present

Palatine

| LMS / BR

| rowspan="2" | {{Stnlink|Manchester Central}} – {{Stnlink|London St Pancras}}

| 1938 – 1964

Peaks Express

| LMS

| 1938–1939

Pembroke Coast Express

| BR / GWR

| {{Stnlink|London Paddington}} – {{Stnlink|Pembroke Dock}}

| 1953 – present

Pines ExpressBradshaw's January 1960, p. 492.

| SR and LMS / BR

| {{Stnlink|Manchester London Road}} (or {{Stnlink|Manchester Mayfield}}), Liverpool and {{Stnlink|Sheffield Midland}} – {{Stnlink|Bournemouth West}} and {{Stnlink|Poole}}

| 1927 – 1967; revived in the 1980s/90s

Premier Service

| ATW / TfW

| {{Stnlink|Holyhead}} – {{Stnlink|Cardiff Central}} and return

| 2008 – present

Pullman Limited Express (Pullman train){{cite magazine |url = http://scm.pastfinders.org/scm_29_pullman.htm | title = By Pullman to Brighton | first = H.C.P. | last = Smail |magazine=Sussex County Magazine | location = Eastbourne | volume = 29 | year = 1955}}

| LBSCR

| {{Stnlink|London Victoria }} – {{Stnlink|Brighton}} (via Horsham route)

| 1881 – 1887

Queen of Scots (Pullman train)

| LNER / BR

| {{Stnlink|Glasgow Queen Street}} – {{Stnlink|London King's Cross}} via {{Stnlink|Harrogate}} and {{Stnlink|Leeds Central}}

| 1927 – 1939; 1948 – 1978

The Red DragonBradshaw's January 1960, p. 32.

| BR / GWR

| {{Stnlink|London Paddington}} – {{Stnlink|Carmarthen}}

| 1950 – present

The Red Rose{{cite news | url = https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000271/19650105/069/0004 | title = Red Rose Late | page = 4 | date = 1965-01-05 | website = Liverpool Echo | quote = 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. | access-date = 2023-04-30}}{{subscription required | via = britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk}}

| BR

| {{Stnlink|London Euston}} – {{Stnlink|Liverpool Lime Street}}

| 1951 – 1966

Robin Hood

| BR / MML / EMR

| {{Stnlink|Nottingham}} – {{Stnlink|London St Pancras}}

| 1958 – present

Royal DuchyBradshaw's January 1960, p. 69.

| BR / GWR

| {{Stnlink|London Paddington}} – {{Stnlink|Penzance}} and {{Stnlink|Kingswear}}

| 1957 – present

Royal Highlander (sleeper train)Bradshaw's January 1960, p. 574.

| BR

| {{Stnlink|London Euston}} – {{Stnlink|Inverness}}

| 1927 – 1996

Royal Scot

| LMS / BR / Virgin / Avanti

| {{Stnlink|Glasgow Central}} – {{Stnlink|London Euston}}

| 1927 – 1939; 1948 – 2003; 2021 – present

Royal WessexBradshaw's January 1960, p. 440.

| SR / BR

| {{stnlink|London Waterloo}} – {{Stnlink|Bournemouth Central}}, {{Stnlink|Weymouth}} and {{Stnlink|Swanage}}

| 1951 – 1967

Saint David{{cite web | url = https://www.gwr.com/~/media/gwr/pdfs/welsh-documents/timetables/2019/bt.pdf?la=en | title = Great Western Railway - Timetable BT | year = 2019 | website = GWR | access-date = 2023-04-30 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20230430101956/https://www.gwr.com/~/media/gwr/pdfs/welsh-documents/timetables/2019/bt.pdf?la=en | archive-date = 2023-04-30}}

| GWR

| {{Stnlink|London Paddington}} – {{Stnlink|Swansea}}

| present

The Scandinavian{{cite book |last= Phillips |first= Charles |title= Essex Steam |publisher= Becknell Books |year= 1982 |page=23 |isbn= 0-907087-10-8}}

| BR

| {{Stnlink|Liverpool Street}} – {{Stnlink|Harwich Parkeston Quay}}

| 1950

St Mungo

| rowspan="2" | BR

| {{Stnlink|Aberdeen}} – Glasgow Buchanan Street

| 1948 – present

Scarborough Flyer

| {{Stnlink|London King's Cross}} – {{Stnlink|Scarborough}}

| 1927 – 1963

Sheffield Continental

| EMR

| {{Stnlink|Sheffield}} – {{Stnlink|London St Pancras}} (one way only)

| 2008–present

Silver Jubilee{{cite web |url=http://napier-chronicles.co.uk/silver_jubilee.htm |title=Silver Jubilee |website=Napier Chronicles }}

| LNER/BR

| {{Stnlink|London King's Cross}} – Newcastle / {{Stnlink|Edinburgh Waverley}} (1977)

| 1935 – 1939; 1977

South Wales Pullman{{cite web |url=https://collection.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/objects/co445847/the-south-wales-pullman-poster |publisher=Science Museum Group |access-date=27 August 2023 |title=The South Wales Pullman | Science Museum Group Collection }}{{efn-lr|name=BluPul}}

| rowspan="2" | BR

| {{Stnlink|London Paddington}} – {{Stnlink|Swansea}}

| 1955–1966

South Yorkshireman

| {{Stnlink|Bradford Exchange}} – {{Stnlink|Sheffield Victoria}} – {{Stnlink|London Marylebone}}

| 1948–1960

South Yorkshireman

| EMR

| {{Stnlink|Sheffield}} – {{Stnlink|London St Pancras}}

| 2008 – present

Southern Belle (Pullman train)

| LBSCR / SR

| {{stnlink|London Victoria}} – {{stnlink|Brighton}}

| 1908 – 1934

Sunny South Express{{cite news | url = https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0004036/19141212/301/0006 | title = L.& N.W.R. | page = 6 | date = 1914-12-12 | website = Liverpool Journal of Commerce | quote = L.& N.W.R. WINTER IN ENGLAND AND RECRUIT YOUR HEALTH AT THE SOUTH COAST RESORTS. THROUGH SERVICES from LIME STREET to BRIGHTON, EASTBOURNE, &c. By the SUNNY SOUTH EXPRESS, at 11 a.m., Daily | access-date = 2023-04-30}}{{subscription required | via = britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk}}

| LNWR+LBSCR / LMS+SR

| {{stnlink|Liverpool Lime Street}} – {{stnlink|Brighton}}

| 1905 – 1939

Sussex Scot

| BR / Virgin CrossCountry

| {{Stnlink|Brighton}} – {{Stnlink|Glasgow Central}}
{{Stnlink|Brighton}} – {{Stnlink|Edinburgh Waverley}}

| 1988 – 2002

Talisman

| rowspan="3" | BR

| {{Stnlink|London King's Cross}} – {{Stnlink|Edinburgh Waverley}}

| 1956 – 1991

The Tees Thames

| London King's Cross – {{Stnlink|Middlesbrough}} – {{Stnlink|Saltburn}}

| 1959 – 1961

Tees-Tyne Pullman

| London King's Cross – Newcastle

| 1948 – 2004

Thames-Clyde Express

| LMS / BR

| {{Stnlink|Glasgow Central}} – {{Stnlink|Carlisle}} –{{Stnlink|Leeds}} – {{Stnlink|London St Pancras}}; before 1966 from {{Stnlink|Glasgow St Enoch}}

| 1927 – 1976

Thames Forth Express

| LMS

| {{Stnlink|Edinburgh Waverley}} – {{Stnlink|Carlisle}} –{{Stnlink|Leeds}} – {{Stnlink|London St Pancras}}
(Re-introduced in 1957 by BR as Waverley)

| 1927 – 1939

Thanet Belle (Pullman train)
later the Kentish Belle

| BR

| London – Margate, Broadstairs and Ramsgate

| 1948 – 1951

Torbay Express

| GWR (original) / BR / GWR

| {{Stnlink|London Paddington}} – {{Stnlink|Paignton}}

| 1923 – present

The Tynesider

| BR

| London King's Cross – Newcastle Central (sleeper train)

| 1950 – 1968

Ulster ExpressBradshaw's January 1960, p. 571.

| LMS
BR

| {{Stnlink|London Euston}} – {{Stnlink|Morecambe}} and {{Stnlink|Heysham}}

| 1927 – 1975

Venice-Simplon Orient Express

| Orient Express

| {{Stnlink|London Victoria}} – Paris Est – Venice Santa Lucia

| 1982 – present

Waverley

| BR

| {{Stnlink|Edinburgh Waverley}} – {{Stnlink|Carlisle}} – {{Stnlink|Leeds}} – {{Stnlink|London St Pancras}}
(Re-introduction of the LMS service the Thames Forth Express)

| 1957 – 1968

Welsh Dragon/Draig Gymreig

| Virgin

| {{Stnlink|London Euston}} – {{Stnlink|Holyhead}}

| 2004 – present

Welshman

| LMS

| {{Stnlink|London Euston}} – {{Stnlink|Holyhead}}
portions for {{Stnlink|Llandudno}}, {{Stnlink|Porthmadog}} & {{Stnlink|Pwllheli}}

|

The Wessex Scot

| BR / Virgin CrossCountry

| {{Stnlink|Poole}} – {{Stnlink|Glasgow Central}}

| 1984 – 2002

West Riding Limited{{cite news |last=Tuffrey |first=Peter |date=11 November 2014 |title= Why can't rail travel still be like this |url=http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/why-can-t-rail-travel-still-be-like-this-1-6944918 |newspaper=Yorkshire Post |access-date=19 September 2017 }}

| LNER;BR;VTEC;LNER

| {{Stnlink|London King's Cross}} – {{Stnlink|Bradford Exchange}} ({{Stnlink|Bradford Interchange}} from 1978; {{Stnlink|Bradford Forster Square}} from c.1990)

| 1937 – present

West Riding Pullman

| LNER

| {{Stnlink|London King's Cross}} – {{Stnlink|Harrogate}} and {{Stnlink|Newcastle}}

| 1928 – 1935; (succeeded by the Yorkshire Pullman)

Weymouth Wizard

| GWR

| {{Stnlink|Bristol Temple Meads}} – {{Stnlink|Weymouth}}

| 2014 – 2017

White Rose

| BR

| {{Stnlink|Bradford Exchange}} – {{Stnlink|Leeds}} – {{Stnlink|London St Pancras}}

| 1949 – 1967

The William Shakespeare{{cite book|last1=Allen|first1=Cecil J|title=Titled Trains of the Western|date=1974|publisher=Ian Allan Ltd|location=Shepperton|isbn=07110-0513-3|pages=22–23}}

| BR

| {{Stnlink|London Paddington}} – {{Stnlink|Stratford-upon-Avon}}

| 1951

Y Cymro – The Welshman

| GWR

| {{Stnlink|Swansea}} and {{Stnlink|London Paddington}}

| 2017

Yorkshire Pullman

| BR

| {{Stnlink|London King's Cross}} – Hull, {{Stnlink|Bradford Exchange}} and {{Stnlink|Harrogate}}

| 1935 – 1978

Yorkshire Pullman{{cite magazine |title=Operations News: InterCity East Coast |magazine=Railway Magazine | location=London |date=March 1995 |page=69}}

| BR

| {{Stnlink|London King's Cross}} – {{Stnlink|Leeds}}

| 1985 – 2004

Zephyr

| Grand Central

| {{Stnlink|Sunderland}} – {{Stnlink|London King's Cross}} (one way only)

| 2008 – 2010{{Citation needed|date=January 2021}}

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.{{Cite web|url=https://collection.sciencemuseum.org.uk/objects/co207433/headboard-the-master-cutler-headboard|title=Headboard - The Master Cutler|website=Science Museum Group|access-date=8 May 2019}}

See also {{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20090107011140/http://www.railwaybritain.co.uk/boat%20trains.html railwaybritain.co.uk]}} for a description of a number of Boat Trains, some of which are included in the lists above.

Notes

{{Notelist-lr}}

{{reflist|refs=

British Railways (N E Region) leaflet BR 35109/1 Named Trains on the East Coast Main Line

LNER Passenger Services Timetable 7 October 1946 to 4 May 1947

{{cite book | last = Bonavia | first = Michael R. | title = The birth of British Rail | publisher = Allen & Unwin | location = London | year = 1979 | oclc = 59803166}}

{{cite book | last = Bonavia | first = Michael Robert | title = British Rail - the first 25 Years | publisher = David & Charles | location = Newton Abbot | year = 1981 | isbn = 978-0-7153-8002-4}}

Advertised as a Pullman Train in November 1965 issue of the ABC Railway Guide

{{cite book | last = Allen | first = Cecil J. | title = ABC of British Express Trains No 1 - Western Region | publisher = Ian Allan | year = 1960}}

{{cite book | last = Allen | first = Cecil J. | title = ABC of British Express Trains No 2 - Southern Region | publisher = Ian Allan | year = 1960 | oclc= 226176356}}

{{cite book | last = Allen | first = Cecil J. | title = ABC of British Express Trains No No 3 - London Midland Region | publisher = Ian Allan | year = 1960 | oclc= 226176429}}

Allen,C J. British Express Trains No 4 - Eastern, N E Regions; Ian Allan (1959)

Allen, C J. British Express Trains No 5 - Anglo-Scottish Services and Scottish Region; Ian Allan (1960)

British Rail Passenger Timetable 17 May 1982 to 15 May 1983

British Railways Eastern Region Passenger Timetable 11 June to 16 September 1956

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

{{cite magazine |title=Named British Express trains | last = Lee | first = Charles E. |magazine=The Railway Magazine | location=London |date=August 1958 |pages=530–535}}

{{cite magazine |title=The titled Trains of Britain - Part One |magazine=The Railway Magazine | date = November 2011 }}

}}

=Works cited=

  • {{Cite book

|last=Allen |first=Cecil J.

|year=1947

|title=Titled Trains of Great Britain

|publisher=Ian Allan |location=London

}}

  • {{cite journal | title = Bradshaw's British Railways Official Guide No. 1507 | publisher = Henry Blacklock | location = London | date = 4 January 1960

|ref={{harvid|Bradshaw's (January 1960)}}

}}

  • {{cite magazine |magazine=The Railway Magazine | issn = 0033-8923| publisher = Mortons Media | location = Horncastle, Lincs | date = November 2011 | title = The Titled Trains of Britain - Part 1: 'The Aberdonian' to 'The Norseman'| pages = 14–46}}
  • {{Cite book

|title=Locomotive Headboards

|last=Peel |first=Dave

|year=2006

|publisher=Sutton Publishing

|isbn=0-7509-4462-5

}}

United Kingdom

List

Named passenger trains