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LNWR / BR. London Euston – Glasgow Central (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 – Edinburgh Waverley (sleeper train) 1930s to transfer of all Scottish sleepers to Euston. Norfolk Coast Express. GER.
C. Cambrian Coast Express. Cheltenham Flyer. Cheltenham Spa Express. Cornish Riviera Express. The Cornishman (train)
Great Western Railway (GWR) is a British train operating company owned by FirstGroup that provides services in the Greater Western franchise area. It manages 197 stations and its trains call at over 270. GWR operates long-distance inter-city services along the Great Western Main Line to and from the West of England and South Wales, inter-city ...
The Great Western Railway (GWR) was a British railway company that linked London with the southwest, west and West Midlands of England and most of Wales. It was founded in 1833, received its enabling act of Parliament on 31 August 1835 and ran its first trains in 1838 with the initial route completed between London and Bristol in 1841.
The Cornish Riviera Express is a British express passenger train that has run between London Paddington and Penzance in Cornwall since 1904. Introduced by the Great Western Railway, the name Cornish Riviera Express has been applied to the late morning express train from London to Penzance continuously through nationalisation under British Rail and privatisation under First Great Western, only ...
The Red Dragon was introduced by the Western Region of British Railways on 5 June 1950, departing Carmarthen at 07:30 for London Paddington, returning at 17:55. However in practice the main train started and terminated at Swansea with only a through portion working west of there to Carmarthen. Haulage was by Castle class locomotives at first ...
The Great Western Railway (GWR) 6000 Class or King Class is a class of 4-6-0 steam locomotives designed for express passenger work and introduced in 1927. They were the largest locomotives built by the GWR, apart from the unique Pacific (The Great Bear). The class was named after kings of the United Kingdom and of England, beginning with the ...
Water cap. The Great Western Railway 2900 Class or Saint Class, which was built by the Great Western Railway 's Swindon Works, incorporated several series of 2-cylinder passenger steam locomotives designed by George Jackson Churchward and built between 1902 and 1913 with differences in the dimensions. The majority of these were built as 4-6-0 ...