Yorkshire Pullman
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{{Short description|Former named railway service from London King's Cross to Bradford, England}}
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The Yorkshire Pullman was a named passenger train operating in the United Kingdom.
History
The service was introduced from the timetable change on 30 September 1935 by the London and North Eastern Railway.{{cite news |author= |title=L.N.E.R Winter Trains |url=http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000324/19350910/058/0010 |newspaper=Hull Daily Mail |location=England |date=10 September 1935 |access-date=17 September 2017 |via=British Newspaper Archive |url-access=subscription }}
It started life as the Harrogate Pullman Limited in 1923. In 1928 it was renamed the West Riding Pullman and ran between London King's Cross and Newcastle. It was renamed the Yorkshire Pullman in 1935 and terminated at Harrogate, with a through portion for Hull via Doncaster.{{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 }} For Hull it offered a three and a half hour schedule to London. It departed Hull at 11:10{{nbsp}}am, and gave a businessman two clear hours in London before returning from King's Cross at 4:45{{nbsp}}pm.{{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 }}
In 1937 the service was accelerated with the journey time reduced by 15 minutes.{{cite news |author= |title=High Speed Yorkshire to London |url=http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000324/19370828/071/0007 |newspaper=Hull Daily Mail |location=England |date=28 August 1937 |access-date=17 September 2017 |via=British Newspaper Archive |url-access=subscription }}
The service was suspended for the duration of the Second World War and resumed on 4 November 1946. It departed Harrogate at 10:20{{nbsp}}am, and arrived at King's Cross at 1:58{{nbsp}}pm. The return journey departed King's Cross at 3:50{{nbsp}}pm and arrived in Harrogate at 8:20{{nbsp}}pm.{{cite news |author= |title=The Yorkshire Pullman |url=http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0001608/19461106/067/0004 |newspaper=Harrogate Herald |location=England |date=6 November 1946 |access-date=17 September 2017 |via=British Newspaper Archive |url-access=subscription }} The service was suspended on 14 February 1947 because of the nationwide fuel crisis{{cite news |author= |title=The Yorkshire Pullman Withdrawn |url=http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000687/19470214/184/0006|newspaper=Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer |location=England |date=14 February 1947 |access-date=17 September 2017 |via=British Newspaper Archive |url-access=subscription }} and it restarted in October of the same year. The service quickly became popular and by 1950 the demand had led to the train being formed of 11 coaches, with accommodation for 108 first class and 192 third class passengers.{{cite news |author= |title=The Yorkshire Pullman |url=http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000687/19500930/054/0002|newspaper=Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer |location=England |date=30 September 1950 |access-date=17 September 2017 |via=British Newspaper Archive |url-access=subscription }}
It was withdrawn by British Rail in 1978. In 1995 the name was used for a new service from London King's Cross to Leeds.{{cite news |title=Operations News: InterCity East Coast |newspaper=Railway Magazine | location=London |date=March 1995 |page=69}} This survived until 2004.