List of named passenger trains of the United Kingdom

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. Note: All Pullmans are named trains, but by no means all named trains are Pullmans.

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	Aberdeen – London King's Cross (sleeper service - later Night Aberdonian)[4]	1927 – ?1976
Aberdonian	BR	Aberdeen – London King's Cross (daytime High Speed Train service)	?1977 – ? (not 2010)
Antwerp Continental (boat train)		London Liverpool Street – Harwich Parkeston Quay	?
Atlantic Coast Express[5][6][7][8]	SR / BR	London Waterloo – Plymouth, Ilfracombe, Sidmouth, Exmouth, Bude, Padstow, Torrington	1926 – 1948 – 1964
Atlantic Coast Express	FGW	London Paddington – Newquay	2008 – present
Belfast Boat Express (boat train)[9]	BR	Manchester Victoria – Heysham and Morecambe	? – 1960 – ?
Benjamin Britten (boat train)[10]	BR	London Liverpool Street – Harwich Parkeston Quay	? – 1988 –
Birmingham Pullman[11][12]	BR	London Paddington – Wolverhampton Low Level	1960-1966
Bon Accord–	BR	Aberdeen – Glasgow Buchanan Street	1948-
Bournemouth Belle (Pullman train)[11]	SR / BR	London Waterloo – Bournemouth Central/Bournemouth West	1931 – 1967
Brighton Belle (Pullman train)[11]	SR / BR	London Victoria – Brighton	1934 – 1972
Brighton Limited (Pullman train)	LBSCR	London Victoria – Brighton	1898 – 1908
Brighton Pullman Limited (Pullman train)[13]	LBSCR	London Victoria – Brighton	1887 – 1898
Bristol Pullman (Pullman train)[11][12]	BR	London Paddington – Bristol Temple Meads	1960-1966
Bristolian[14]	GWR / BR / FGW	London Paddington – Bristol Temple Meads non-stop[15]	1935 – present
Broadsman[16][17]	GER / BR	London Liverpool Street – Cromer and Sheringham	1947 – 1962
Caledonian[18]	BR	Glasgow Central – London Euston	1950s, 1960s
Caledonian Sleeper (night train)	First ScotRail	London Euston – Edinburgh Waverley London Euston – Aberdeen London Euston – Fort William London Euston – Glasgow Central London Euston – Inverness	2004 – present
Cambrian Coast Express[19]	GWR / BR	London Paddington (later London Euston) – Aberystwyth London Paddington – Pwllheli	1927 – 1991
Capitals Limited[7]	BR	London Kings Cross – Aberdeen (non-stop London Kings Cross to Edinburgh Waverley)	1949 – 1952 (succeeded by Elizabethan)
Capitals United Express[20]	BR	London Paddington – Cardiff Central London Paddington – Fishguard Harbour	1956 – 1963
Carmarthen Bay Express	GWR	London Paddington – Tenby	1920s
Cathedrals Express[21]	GWR / BR / FGW	London Paddington – Oxford – Hereford	1957 – present
Cheltenham Spa Express (aka. the "Cheltenham Flyer")[22]	GWR / BR / FGW	London Paddington – Cheltenham Spa	1923 – present
Clansman[4]	BR	Inverness – London Euston via Birmingham New Street
Comet[7][23][24]	BR	London Euston – Manchester London Road	1951 – 1960 – ?
Cornish Riviera Express[7][6]	GWR / BR / FGW	London Paddington – Penzance	1904 – present
Cornish Scot	BR / Virgin	Glasgow Central – Penzance	? (not 2010)
Cornishman	GWR	London Paddington – Penzance	1890 – 1904 1935 – 1936
Cornishman[25]	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 / BR / Wessex Trains	Bristol Temple Meads – Great Malvern	May 1984 – May 1997 [26]
Day Continental (boat train)	BR	London Liverpool Street – Harwich Parkeston Quay	?
Devon Belle[7] (Pullman train)	SR / BR	London Waterloo – Ilfracombe London Waterloo – Plymouth	1947 – 1954
Devon Scot	BR / Virgin	Aberdeen – Carlisle – Plymouth	? (not 2010)
Devonian[23][27]	LMS / BR	Bradford Forster Square – Sheffield Midland – Bristol Temple Meads (Winter) – Paignton (Summer)	1927 – 1960 – ? (not 2010)
Dorset Scot	BR / Virgin	Poole – Newcastle Central – Edinburgh Waverley	? (not 2010)
East Anglian	LNER / BR	London Liverpool Street – Norwich
The Easterling[17]	BR	London Liverpool Street – Lowestoft and Yarmouth South Town	1950s
Eastern Belle	LNER	London Liverpool Street – Clacton-on-Sea	1929 - 1939
Elizabethan[7][3][2] (summer only)	BR	London King's Cross – Edinburgh Waverley (non-stop)[28]	1953 – 1962?
Emerald Isle Express[29]	BR	London Euston – Llandudno and Holyhead	? - 1960 - ?
Fair Maid[2]	BR	London King's Cross – Perth	1957-1958 (succeeded by Morning Talisman)
Fenman	BR[30]	London Liverpool Street – Hunstanton after 1969 to King's Lynn	1949 –
Fife Coast Express[30] (Ran as Fifeshire Coast Express 1912 – 1939) [31]	NBR / LNER / BR	St Andrews – Glasgow Queen Street	1948 –
Flying Dutchman	GWR+BER	London Paddington – Exeter St Davids	1849 – 1892
Flying Scotsman[6][3][2]	GNR+NER+NBR / LNER / BR / GNER / East Coast	London King's Cross – Edinburgh Waverley From May 2011: Edinburgh to London, one way only[32]	1862 – present[33]
Golden Arrow[7][6][5][11] (boat train)	SR / BR	London Victoria – Dover Priory or Folkestone Harbour	1929 – 1972
Golden Hind	FGW	London Paddington – Penzance	present
Granite City[6][7]	? / BR	Aberdeen – Glasgow Buchanan Street	1933 – 1939, 1948 –
Harrogate Sunday Pullman[17][11]	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
Highland Chieftain	GNER	Inverness – London King's Cross	2000s - present[34]
Hook Continental (boat train)		London Liverpool Street – Harwich Parkeston Quay
Hull Executive	BR / GNER	Hull – London King's Cross	1978 – present
Inter-City[35]	BR	London Paddington – Wolverhampton Low Level	1950–1967
Irish Mail[6] (boat train)	LNWR / LMS / BR / Virgin	London Euston – Holyhead	1849 – ? (not 2010)
Irishman[6][7] (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
Lancastrian[23][36]	LMS / BR	Manchester London Road – London Euston	1928 – 1930s - 1960 - ?
Liverpool Pullman	BR	Liverpool Lime Street – London Euston and v.v.	1966 –
Loreley (boat train)[10]	BR	Blackpool North – Manchester Piccadilly – Nottingham – Harwich Parkeston Quay	1988 –
Man of Kent[7][37]	BR	London Charing Cross – Dover, Deal, Sandwich and Margate	1953 – 1960 – ?
Manchester Pullman	BR / Virgin	Manchester Piccadilly – London Euston and v.v.	1966 – 1990s
Mancunian[23][38]	LMS / BR	Manchester London Road – London Euston	1930s - 1960 - ?
Master Cutler[7]	LNER / BR / MML / EMT	Sheffield Victoria – London Marylebone after 1958 to London King's Cross, later to St Pancras[11] after privatisation from Leeds to London St Pancras via Sheffield. From 2008 no longer from Leeds starting again at Sheffield.	1947 – present
Mayflower[39]	BR / FGW	Kingswear and Plymouth – London Paddington	1957 – present
Merchant Venturer[6][7]	BR	London Paddington – Bristol Temple Meads and Weston-super-Mare	1951 –
Merchant Venturer	BR / FGW	London Paddington – Penzance via Bristol Temple Meads	present
Merseyside Express[7]	BR	London Euston – Liverpool Lime Street	1951 –
Midland Pullman[11][12]	BR	Manchester Central – London St Pancras with midday infill London St Pancras – Nottingham	1960-1966
Mid-Day Scot[40]	LMS / BR	Glasgow Central – London Euston	1930s, 1950s, 1960s
Midlands Express	BR / MML	Sheffield – London St Pancras	2008
Night Ferry	SR / BR	London Victoria – Paris Nord) later also to Brussels (Midi/Zuid) after 1948 also 2nd-class coaches as far as Dover Western Docks	1936 – 1980
Night Riviera	FGW	London Paddington – Penzance	19th Century – present
Night Scotsman[2][3]	LNER / BR	London Kings Cross – Edinburgh Waverley (sleeper train)	1930s to transfer of all Scottish sleepers to Euston
Norfolk Coast Express	GER / BR	London Liverpool Street – Cromer	1907 – unknown
Norfolkman	BR	Sheringham – London Liverpool Street	1947 –
Norseman	BR	London Kings Cross – Newcastle Tyne Commission Quay (to connect with Bergen Line or Fred Olsen Line shipping services to Norway).	1947 –
North Briton[6][7]	BR	Glasgow Queen Street – Leeds City	1952 –
Northern Irishman (sleeper train)[41]	BR	London Euston – Stranraer Harbour	? – 1960 – ?
Northern Lights	GNER / NXEC	Aberdeen – London King's Cross	present
The Northumbrian[16][3]	BR	London Kings Cross – Newcastle Central	1950s – 1960s
Palatine	LMS / BR	Manchester Central – London St Pancras	1938 – 1964
Peaks Express	LMS	Manchester Central – London St Pancras	1938 - 1939
Pembroke Coast Express[7]	BR / FGW	London Paddington – Pembroke Dock	1953 – present
Pines Express[42]	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)[43]	LBSCR	London Victoria – Brighton (via Horsham route)	1881 – 1887
Queen of Scots (Pullman train)[17][6][2][3][7]	LNER / BR	Glasgow Queen Street – London King's Cross via Harrogate and Leeds Central	1927 – 1939 1948 – 1978
Red Dragon[7][44]	BR / FGW	London Paddington – Carmarthen	1950 – present
Robin Hood	BR / MML / EMT	Nottingham – London St Pancras	1958 – present
Royal Duchy[45]	BR / FGW	London Paddington – Penzance and Kingswear	1957 – present
Royal Highlander (sleeper train)[46]	BR	London Euston – Inverness	? – 1960 – ?
Royal Scot[6][7]	LNWR / LMS /BR / Virgin	Glasgow Central – London Euston	1862 – 1939 1948 – 2003
Royal Wessex[47]	SR / BR	London Waterloo – Bournemouth Central, Weymouth and Swanage	1951 – 1960 – ?
Saint David	GWR / BR / FGW	London Paddington – Swansea	present
St Mungo[7]	BR	Aberdeen – Glasgow Buchanan Street	1948-
Scarborough Flyer[17][6]	BR	London King's Cross – Scarborough	1950s – early 1960s
Sheffield Continental	EMT	Sheffield – London St Pancras (one way only)	2008 - present
Silver Jubilee	LNER	London King's Cross – Newcastle Central	1935 – 1939
South Wales Pullman[11][12]	BR	London Paddington – Swansea	1960-1966
South Yorkshireman[7]	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 – 193?
Sussex Scot	BR / Virgin	Brighton – Glasgow Central Brighton – Edinburgh Waverley	1988 – 2002
Talisman[3][2]	BR	London King's Cross – Edinburgh Waverley	1956 – ?
The Tees Thames[16]	BR	London Kings Cross – Middlesbrough – Saltburn	1950s – 1960s
Tees-Tyne Pullman[7][16][11]	BR	London King's Cross – Newcastle Central	1948 – ?
Thames-Clyde Express	LMS / BR	Glasgow Central – Carlisle Citadel –Leeds City – London St Pancras before 1966 from Glasgow St Enoch	1927 – 1976
Thames Forth Express (aka. Waverley)	LMS / BR	Edinburgh Waverley – Carlisle Citadel –Leeds City – London St Pancras	1927 – 1968
Thanet Belle[7] (Pullman train) later the "Kentish Belle"	BR	London – to Margate, Broadstairs and Ramsgate	1948-51
Torbay Express[7]	GWR / BR / FGW	London Paddington – Paignton	1923 – present
The Tynesider[16][3]	BR	London Kings Cross – Newcastle Central (sleeper train)	1950s – 1960s
Ulster Express[48]	BR	London Euston – Morecambe and Heysham	1950s – 1960 – ?
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	? (not 2010)
White Rose[11]	BR	Bradford Exchange – Leeds City – London St Pancras	1949 –
Yorkshire Pullman[17][11]	BR	London King's Cross – Hull, Bradford Forster Square and Harrogate	? 1950s;
Yorkshire Pullman[49]	BR	London King's Cross – Leeds	? – 1995 –
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. ^ ^{a b c d e f g h} Allen, C J. British Express Trains No 5 - Anglo-Scottish Services and Scottish Region; Ian Allan (1960)
3. ^ ^{a b c d e f g h i} British Railways (N E Region) leaflet BR 35109/1 Named Trains on the East Coast Main Line
4. ^ ^{a b} British Rail Passenger Timetable 17 May 1982 to 15 May 1983
5. ^ ^{a b} Allen, Cecil J. (1960). ABC of British Express Trains No 2 - Southern Region. Ian Allan. OCLC 226176356. 
6. ^ ^{a b c d e f g h i j k l} 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
7. ^ ^{a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w} Bonavia, Michael R. (1979). The birth of British Rail. London: Allen & Unwin. OCLC 59803166. 
8. ^ Bradshaw's January 1960, p. 468.
9. ^ Bradshaw's January 1960, p. 590.
10. ^ ^{a b} Semmens, P.W.B. (October 1988). "Blackpool for the Continent". Railway Magazine (London): p. 638. 
11. ^ ^{a b c d e f g h i j k l} Advertised as a Pullman Train in November 1965 issue of the ABC Railway Giide
12. ^ ^{a b c d} One of the Blue Pullman trains
13. ^ Smail, H.C.P. (1955). "By Pullman to Brighton". Sussex County Magazine (Eastbourne) 29. http://scm.pastfinders.org/scm_29_pullman.htm. 
14. ^ Allen, Cecil J. (1960). ABC of British Express Trains No 1 - Western Region. Ian Allan. 
15. ^ Bradshaw's January 1960, p. 24.
16. ^ ^{a b c d e} Allen,C J. British Express Trains No 4 - Eastern, N E Regions; Ian Allan (1959)
17. ^ ^{a b c d e f} British Railways Eastern Region Passenger Timetable 11 June to 16 September 1956
18. ^ Bradshaw's January 1960, p. 590.
19. ^ Bradshaw's January 1960, p. 201.
20. ^ Bradshaw's January 1960, p. 141.
21. ^ Bradshaw's January 1960, p. 227.
22. ^ Bradshaw's January 1960, p. 159.
23. ^ ^{a b c d} Allen, Cecil J. (1960). ABC of British Express Trains No No 3 - London Midland Region. Ian Allan. OCLC 226176429. 
24. ^ Bradshaw's January 1960, p. 631.
25. ^ Bradshaw's January 1960, p. 207.
26. ^ "The titled Trains of Britain - Part One". Railway Magazine. November 2011. 
27. ^ Bradshaw's January 1960, pp. 110, 700.
28. ^ Advertised as non-stop in summer 1962 but stopped for crew change at Newcastle after introduction of Deltic traction
29. ^ Bradshaw's January 1960, p. 618.
30. ^ ^{a b} Bonavia, Michael Robert (1981). British Rail - the first 25 Years. Newton Abbot: David & Charles. ISBN 9780715380024. 
31. ^ Lee, Charles E. (August 1958). "Named British Express trains". Railway Magazine (London): pp. 530–535. 
32. ^ Miles, Tony (July 2011). "East Coast reports successful start". Modern Railways (London): p. 14. 
33. ^ National Rail Timetable 23 May 2010 - December 2010, Table 26. Network Rail. p. 4. http://www.networkrail.co.uk/browse%20documents/eNRT/May10/timetables/Table26.pdf. 
34. ^ National Rail Timetable 23 May 2010 - December 2010, Table 26. Network Rail. p. 5. http://www.networkrail.co.uk/browse%20documents/eNRT/May10/timetables/Table26.pdf. 
35. ^ Bradshaw's January 1960, p. 201.
36. ^ Bradshaw's January 1960, p. 631.
37. ^ Bradshaw's January 1960, p. 291.
38. ^ Bradshaw's January 1960, p. 629.
39. ^ Bradshaw's January 1960, p. 31.
40. ^ Bradshaw's January 1960, p. 590.
41. ^ Bradshaw's January 1960, p. 572.
42. ^ Bradshaw's January 1960, p. 492.
43. ^ Smail, H.C.P. (1955). "By Pullman to Brighton". Sussex County Magazine (Eastbourne) 29. http://scm.pastfinders.org/scm_29_pullman.htm. 
44. ^ Bradshaw's January 1960, p. 32.
45. ^ Bradshaw's January 1960, p. 69.
46. ^ Bradshaw's January 1960, p. 574.
47. ^ Bradshaw's January 1960, p. 440.
48. ^ Bradshaw's January 1960, p. 571.
49. ^ "Operations News: InterCity East Coast". Railway Magazine (London): p. 69. March 1995. 

Works cited

• Bradshaw's British Railways Official Guide No. 1507. London: Henry Blacklock. 4 January 1960. 
• "The Titled Trains of Britain - Part 1: 'The Aberdonian' to 'The Norseman'". Railway Magazine (Horncastle, Lincs: Mortons Media): 14 – 46. November 2011. ISSN 00338923.