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[5] |
? – 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[14][15] |
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)[16] |
LBSCR |
London Victoria – Brighton |
1898 – 1908 |
Bristol Pullman (Pullman train)[14][15] |
BR |
London Paddington – Bristol Temple Meads |
1960 – 1973 |
Bristolian[17] |
GWR (original) / BR / GWR |
London Paddington – Bristol Temple Meads non-stop[18] |
1935 – present |
Broadsman[19][20] |
BR |
London Liverpool Street – Cromer and Sheringham |
1950 – 1962 |
Caledonian[11] |
BR |
Glasgow Central – London Euston |
1957 – 1964 |
Caledonian Sleeper (night train) |
Caledonian Sleeper |
London Euston – Edinburgh Waverley London Euston – Aberdeen London Euston – Fort William London Euston – Glasgow Central London Euston – Inverness |
2004 – present |
Cambrian Coast Express[21] |
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[22] |
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[24] |
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 |
Glasgow Central – Penzance |
1985 – 2002 |
Cornishman |
GWR (original) |
London Paddington – Penzance |
1890 – 1904 1935 – 1936 |
Cornishman[30] |
BR |
(Bradford) – Wolverhampton Low Level – Penzance and Kingswear |
1951 – 1975 |
Cornishman[6] |
GWR |
London Paddington – Penzance |
2006 – present |
Coronation |
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 / Wessex Trains |
Bristol Temple Meads – Great Malvern |
May 1884 – May 1997 [31] |
Day Continental (boat train) |
LNER / BR |
London Liverpool Street – Harwich Parkeston Quay |
1946[32] – 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 |
Aberdeen – Carlisle – Plymouth |
1988 – 2002 |
Devonian[27][33] |
LMS / BR |
Bradford Forster Square – Sheffield Midland – Bristol Temple Meads (Winter) – Paignton (Summer) |
1927 – 1960 – 2002 |
Dorset Scot |
BR / Virgin Cross Country |
Poole – Newcastle – Edinburgh Waverley |
1990 – 2002 |
East Anglian |
LNER / BR / Anglia / One Anglia / National Express East Anglia / Abellio Greater Anglia |
London Liverpool Street – Norwich |
1937 – present |
The Easterling[20] |
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)[34] |
1953 – 1964 |
Emerald Isle Express[35] |
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 Davids |
1849 – 1892 |
Flying Scotsman[2][3][8] |
GNR+NER+NBR / LNER / BR / GNER / Virgin Trains East Coast |
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][20] |
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[43] |
LMS / BR |
Inverness – Kyle of Lochalsh |
1933 – ???? 1965 – ???? |
Highland Chieftain |
GNER / Virgin Trains East Coast |
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 Virgin Trains East Coast |
Hull – London King's Cross |
1978 – 2015 |
Inter-City[21] |
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[46] |
LMS |
Inverness – to Wick[46] |
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 v.v. |
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 v.v. |
1966 – 1990s |
Mancunian[27][49] |
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 / EMT |
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 |
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][15] |
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 City |
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][19] |
BR |
London King's Cross – Newcastle |
1949 – 1964 |
Orcadian[46] |
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 |
Pullman Limited Express (Pullman train)[53] |
LBSCR |
London Victoria – Brighton (via Horsham route) |
1881 – 1887 |
Queen of Scots (Pullman train)[2][3][8][9][20] |
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 |
Robin Hood |
BR / MML / EMT |
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][20] |
BR |
London King's Cross – Scarborough |
1927 – 1963 |
Sheffield Continental |
EMT |
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][15] |
BR |
London Paddington – Swansea |
1960 – 1966 |
South Yorkshireman[9] |
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 – 1939 |
Sussex Scot |
BR / Virgin |
Brighton – Glasgow Central Brighton – Edinburgh Waverley |
1988 – 2002 |
Talisman[2][3] |
BR |
London King's Cross – Edinburgh Waverley |
1956 – 1991 |
The Tees Thames[19] |
BR |
London King's Cross – Middlesbrough – Saltburn |
1959 – 1961 |
Tees-Tyne Pullman[9][14][19] |
BR |
London King's Cross – Newcastle |
1948 – 2004 |
Thames-Clyde Express |
LMS / BR |
Glasgow Central – Carlisle Citadel –Leeds City – London St Pancras before 1966 from Glasgow St Enoch |
1927 – 1975 |
Thames Forth Express
|
LMS |
Edinburgh Waverley – Carlisle Citadel –Leeds City – 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][19] |
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 – present |
Waverley |
BR |
Edinburgh Waverley – Carlisle Citadel – Leeds City – 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 |
Poole – Glasgow Central |
1984 – 2002 |
West Riding Limited[60] |
LNER BR VTEC |
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 City – London St Pancras |
1949 – 1967 |
William Shakespeare[61] |
BR |
London Paddington – Stratford-upon-Avon |
1951 |
Y Gerallt Gymro / Premier Service[62] |
ATW |
Holyhead – Cardiff Central |
2011 – present |
Yorkshire Pullman[14][20] |
BR |
London King's Cross – Hull, Bradford Forster Square and Harrogate |
1935 – 1978 |
Yorkshire Pullman[63] |
BR |
London King's Cross – Leeds |
1995 – 2004 |
Zephyr |
Grand Central |
Sunderland – London King's Cross (one way only) |
2010 |