Train name
|
Company/ies
|
Journey endpoints
|
Dates operated
|
21st Century Limited
[1]
[2]
|
Grand Central
|
London King's Cross –
Sunderland (one way only)
|
2008
[2] – 2010[
citation needed]
|
Aberdonian
[3]
[4]
[5]
|
BR
Serco
|
Aberdeen –
London King's Cross (sleeper service - later Night Aberdonian)
[6]
|
1927 – ?2012 Jan – Mar 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
|
? – 1954
|
Armada
[8]
|
GWR
|
London Paddington –
Plymouth
|
? – present
|
Atlantic Coast Express
[9]
[10]
[11]
[12]
|
SR /
BR
|
London Waterloo –
Plymouth,
Ilfracombe,
Sidmouth,
Exmouth,
Bude,
Padstow,
Torrington
|
1926 – 1948 – 1964
|
Atlantic Coast Express
[8]
|
GWR
|
London Paddington –
Newquay
|
2008 – present
|
Belfast Boat Express (boat train)
[13]
|
BR
|
Manchester Victoria –
Heysham and
Morecambe
|
? – 1960 – 1975
|
Benjamin Britten
[14]
|
BR /
NS
|
London Liverpool Street –
Harwich Parkeston Quay– ferry –
Hoek van Holland Haven –
Amsterdam Centraal
|
1987 – 1989
[15]
|
Birmingham Pullman
[i]
[16]
|
BR
|
London Paddington –
Wolverhampton Low Level
|
1960 – 1966
|
Bon Accord
[17]
|
Aberdeen –
Glasgow Buchanan Street
|
1949 – 1968
|
Bournemouth Belle (Pullman train)
[16]
|
SR /
BR
|
London Waterloo –
Bournemouth Central/
Bournemouth West
|
1931 – 1967
|
Brighton Belle (Pullman train)
[16]
|
SR /
BR
|
London Victoria –
Brighton
|
1934 – 1972
|
Brighton Limited (Pullman train)
|
LBSCR
|
1887 – 1908
|
Brighton Pullman Limited (Pullman train)
[18]
|
1898 – 1908
|
Bristol Pullman (Pullman train)
[16]
[i]
|
BR
|
London Paddington –
Bristol Temple Meads
|
1960 – 1973
|
Bristolian
[19]
|
GWR (original) /
BR /
GWR
|
London Paddington –
Bristol Temple Meads non-stop
[20] (original);
London Paddington to
Weston-super-Mare (current)
|
1935 – present
|
Broadsman
[21]
[22]
|
BR
|
London Liverpool Street –
Cromer and
Sheringham
|
1950 – 1962
|
Caledonian
|
Glasgow Central –
London Euston
|
1957 – 1964
|
Caledonian Sleeper (night train)
|
InterCity West Coast /
ScotRail (British Rail) /
ScotRail (National Express) /
First ScotRail /
Caledonian Sleeper
|
London Euston –
Edinburgh Waverley
London Euston –
Aberdeen
London Euston –
Fort William
London Euston –
Glasgow Central
London Euston –
Inverness
|
1996 – present
|
Cambrian Coast Express
|
GWR (original) /
BR
|
London Paddington (later
London Euston) –
Aberystwyth
London Paddington –
Pwllheli
|
1927 – 1991
|
Capitals Limited
[11]
|
BR
|
London King's Cross –
Aberdeen (non-stop London King's Cross to Edinburgh Waverley)
|
1949 – 1952 (succeeded by
Elizabethan)
|
Capitals United Express
|
London Paddington –
Cardiff Central
London Paddington –
Fishguard Harbour
|
1956 – 1963
|
Capitals United
[8]
|
GWR
|
London Paddington –
Swansea
|
2010 – present
|
Carmarthen Bay Express
|
GWR
|
London Paddington –
Tenby
|
1927
[26] – ????
|
Carolean Express
[27]
|
LNER
|
London King's Cross –
Edinburgh Waverley
|
May 2023 – present
|
Cathedrals Express
|
BR /
GWR
|
London Paddington –
Oxford –
Hereford
|
1957 – present
|
Cheltenham Spa Express (also known as The Cheltenham Flyer)
[29]
|
GWR (original) /
BR /
GWR
|
London Paddington –
Cheltenham Spa
|
1929 – present
|
Clansman
[6]
|
BR
|
Inverness –
London Euston via
Birmingham New Street
|
1974
[30] – 1984
|
Comet
[11]
[31]
[32]
|
BR
|
London Euston –
Manchester London Road
|
1949
[33] – 1962
|
Cornish Riviera Express
[10]
[11]
|
GWR (original) /
BR /
GWR
|
London Paddington –
Penzance
|
1904 – present
|
Cornish Scot
[34]
|
BR /
Virgin CrossCountry
|
Glasgow Central –
Penzance
|
1987 – 2002
|
Cornishman
|
GWR (original)
|
London Paddington –
Penzance
|
1890 – 1904 1935 – 1936
|
Cornishman
|
BR
|
(
Bradford Exchange) –
Wolverhampton Low Level –
Penzance and
Kingswear
|
1951 – 1975
|
Cornishman
|
BR
|
Edinburgh Waverley –
Penzance
|
1983 – 2002
|
Cornishman
[8]
|
GWR
|
London Paddington –
Penzance
|
2006 – present
|
Coronation
[36]
|
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 /
Wales & West
|
Bristol Temple Meads –
Great Malvern
|
May 1884 – May 1997
[37]
|
Day Continental (boat train)
|
LNER /
BR
|
London Liverpool Street –
Harwich Parkeston Quay
|
1946
[38] – 1987 (succeeded by
Benjamin Britten)
[15]
|
Devon Belle
[11] (Pullman train)
|
SR /
BR
|
London Waterloo –
Ilfracombe
London Waterloo –
Plymouth
|
1947 – 1954
|
Devon Express
[8]
|
GWR
|
London Paddington –
Paignton
|
? – present
|
Devon Scot
[39]
|
BR /
Virgin CrossCountry
|
Aberdeen –
Carlisle –
Plymouth
|
1988 – 2002
|
Devonian
[31]
|
LMS /
BR
|
Bradford Forster Square (
Bradford Exchange from 1967;
Leeds from 1980) –
Sheffield Midland –
Bristol Temple Meads (winter) –
Paignton (summer)
|
1927 – 2002
|
Dorset Scot
[41]
|
BR /
Virgin CrossCountry
|
Poole –
Newcastle –
Edinburgh Waverley
|
1990 – 2002
|
East Anglian
|
LNER /
BR /
Anglia /
National Express East Anglia /
Abellio Greater Anglia
|
London Liverpool Street –
Norwich
|
1937–present
|
The Easterling
[22]
|
BR
|
London Liverpool Street –
Lowestoft and
Yarmouth South Town
|
1950 – 1958
|
The Elizabethan
[4]
[5]
[11] (summer only)
|
BR
|
London King's Cross –
Edinburgh Waverley (non-stop)
[ii]
|
1953 – 1964
|
Emerald Isle Express
|
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
[43]
|
BR
|
London Liverpool Street –
Clacton
|
1958 – 1968
[44]
|
The European
[45]
|
Edinburgh Waverley and
Glasgow Central –
Harwich Parkeston Quay
|
1983 – 1988
|
Fair Maid
[4]
|
London King's Cross –
Perth
|
1957 – 1958 (succeeded by Morning Talisman)
|
Fenman
|
BR
[46]
|
London Liverpool Street –
Hunstanton; after 1969 to
King's Lynn
|
1949 – 1968
|
Fife Coast Express
[46] (Ran as Fifeshire Coast Express 1912 – 1924)
[47]
|
NBR /
LNER /
BR
|
St Andrews –
Glasgow Queen Street
|
1948 – 1959
|
Flying Dutchman
|
GWR (original)+
BER
|
London Paddington –
Exeter St Davids
|
1849 – 1892
|
Flying Scotsman
[4]
[5]
[10]
|
GNR+
NER+
NBR /
LNER /
BR /
GNER /
NXEC /
East Coast /
VTEC /
LNER
|
London King's Cross –
Edinburgh Waverley From May 2011: Edinburgh to London, one way only
[48]
|
1862 – present
[49]
|
Flying Carolean
[50]
|
GWR
|
London Paddington –
Swansea
|
2023 – present
[50]
|
Golden Arrow
[9]
[10]
[11]
[16] (boat train)
|
SR /
BR
|
London Victoria –
Dover Priory or
Folkestone Harbour
|
1929 – 1972
|
Golden Hind
|
BR /
GWR
|
London Paddington –
Penzance
|
1964 – present
|
Granite City
[10]
[11]
|
? /
BR
|
Aberdeen –
Glasgow Buchanan Street
|
1933 – 1939; 1948 –
|
Harrogate Pullman
[51]
|
LNER
|
London King's Cross –
Harrogate and
Newcastle
|
1923 – 1928 (Succeeded by the West Riding Pullman)
|
Harrogate Sunday Pullman
[16]
[22]
|
BR
|
London King's Cross –
Harrogate and
Bradford Exchange
|
1950s – late 1960s
|
Heart of Midlothian
[4]
[5]
|
London King's Cross –
Edinburgh Waverley
|
1951 – 1968
|
The Hebridean
|
LMS /
BR
|
Inverness –
Kyle of Lochalsh
|
1933 – ???? 1965 – ????
|
Highland Chieftain
|
GNER /
VTEC /
LNER
|
Inverness –
London King's Cross
|
1984–present
[53]
|
Highlandman
|
LNER
|
Fort William
Perth
Inverness –
London King's Cross
|
1927 – 1939
[54]
|
Hook Continental (boat train)
|
LNER /
BR
|
London Liverpool Street –
Harwich Parkeston Quay
|
1927 – 1939; 1945 – 1987 (Succeeded by
Admiraal de Ruijter)
[15]
|
Hull Executive
|
BR /
GNER /
NXEC /
East Coast /
VTEC
|
Hull –
London King's Cross
|
1978–2015
|
Inter-City
|
BR
|
London Paddington –
Wolverhampton Low Level
|
1950–1965
|
Irish Mail
[10] (boat train)
|
LNWR /
LMS /
BR /
Virgin
|
London Euston –
Holyhead
|
1849 – 1985, 1990s – 2002
|
Irishman
[10]
[11] (boat train)
|
BR
|
Glasgow St Enoch –
Stranraer
|
1951 ?
|
John O'Groat
|
LMS
|
Inverness – –
Wick
|
1936 – 39
|
Kentish Belle (Pullman train) formerly the Thanet Belle
|
BR
|
London – –
Margate,
Broadstairs and
Ramsgate
|
1951 – 58
|
Lakes Express
|
LMS /
BR
|
London Euston – Windermere, Keswick, Workington
|
1927
[56] – 1939; 1945 – 1965
|
Lancastrian
[31]
[32]
|
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
|
1966 – 1974
|
Loreley (boat train)
[14]
|
Blackpool North –
Manchester Piccadilly –
Nottingham –
Harwich Parkeston Quay
|
1988 – 1992
|
Man of Kent
[11]
[57]
|
London Charing Cross –
Dover,
Deal,
Sandwich and
Margate
|
1953 – 1961
|
Manchester Pullman
|
BR /
Virgin
|
Manchester Piccadilly – London Euston
|
1966 – 1990s
|
Mancunian
[31]
|
LMS /
BR
|
Manchester London Road –
London Euston
|
1927 – 1966
|
The Manxman
[56]
|
Liverpool Lime Street –
London Euston
|
1927 – 1966
|
Master Cutler
[11]
|
LNER /
BR /
MML /
EMR
|
Sheffield Victoria –
London Marylebone; after 1958 to
London King's Cross, later to St Pancras;
[16] after privatisation from
Leeds to
London St Pancras via
Sheffield. From 2008 no longer from Leeds but again starting at Sheffield.
|
1947 – present
|
Mayflower
[59]
|
BR /
GWR
|
Kingswear and
Plymouth –
London Paddington
|
1957 – present
|
The Merchant Venturer
[10]
[11]
|
London Paddington –
Bristol Temple Meads and
Weston-super-Mare
|
1951 – present
|
Merseyside Express
[11]
|
BR
|
London Euston –
Liverpool Lime Street
|
1949
[33] – 1966
|
Midland Pullman
[16]
[i]
|
Manchester Central –
London St Pancras with midday infill
London St Pancras –
Nottingham
|
1960–1966
|
Mid-Day Scot
[13]
|
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 Scot
[60]
|
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
|
London Liverpool Street –
Cromer
|
1907 – 1914
|
The Norfolkman
|
BR
|
Sheringham –
London Liverpool Street
|
1947 – 1962; 1993 – 2000
|
Norseman
[61]
|
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
[10]
[11]
|
Glasgow Queen Street –
Leeds
|
1952 – 1968; 1972 – 1975
|
Northern Irishman (sleeper train)
[62]
|
London Euston –
Stranraer Harbour
|
1952 – 1966
|
Northern Lights
|
GNER /
NXEC /
VTEC
|
Aberdeen –
London King's Cross
|
present
|
The Northumbrian
[5]
[21]
|
BR
|
London King's Cross –
Newcastle
|
1949 – 1964
|
Orcadian
|
LMS
|
Inverness – to
Wick
|
1936 – 1939
|
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
|
1938–1939
|
Pembroke Coast Express
[11]
|
BR /
GWR
|
London Paddington –
Pembroke Dock
|
1953 – present
|
Pines Express
[63]
|
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
|
Premier Service
|
ATW /
TfW
|
Holyhead –
Cardiff Central and return
|
2008 – present
|
Pullman Limited Express (Pullman train)
[64]
|
LBSCR
|
London Victoria –
Brighton (via Horsham route)
|
1881 – 1887
|
Queen of Scots (Pullman train)
[4]
[5]
[10]
[11]
[22]
|
LNER /
BR
|
Glasgow Queen Street –
London King's Cross via
Harrogate and
Leeds Central
|
1927 – 1939; 1948 – 1978
|
The Red Dragon
[11]
[65]
|
BR /
GWR
|
London Paddington –
Carmarthen
|
1950 – present
|
The Red Rose
[66]
|
BR
|
London Euston –
Liverpool Lime Street
|
1951 – 1966
|
Robin Hood
|
BR /
MML /
EMR
|
Nottingham –
London St Pancras
|
1958 – present
|
Royal Duchy
[67]
|
BR /
GWR
|
London Paddington –
Penzance and
Kingswear
|
1957 – present
|
Royal Highlander (sleeper train)
[68]
|
BR
|
London Euston –
Inverness
|
1927 – 1996
|
Royal Scot
[10]
[11]
|
LMS /
BR /
Virgin /
Avanti
|
Glasgow Central –
London Euston
|
1927 – 1939; 1948 – 2003; 2021 – present
|
Royal Wessex
[69]
|
SR /
BR
|
London Waterloo –
Bournemouth Central,
Weymouth and
Swanage
|
1951 – 1967
|
Saint David
[70]
|
GWR
|
London Paddington –
Swansea
|
present
|
The Scandinavian
[71]
|
BR
|
Liverpool Street –
Harwich Parkeston Quay
|
1950
|
St Mungo
[11]
|
BR
|
Aberdeen –
Glasgow Buchanan Street
|
1948 – present
|
Scarborough Flyer
[10]
[22]
|
London King's Cross –
Scarborough
|
1927 – 1963
|
Sheffield Continental
|
EMR
|
Sheffield –
London St Pancras (one way only)
|
2008–present
|
Silver Jubilee
[72]
|
LNER/BR
|
London King's Cross –
Newcastle /
Edinburgh Waverley (1977)
|
1935 – 1939; 1977
|
South Wales Pullman
[73]
[16]
[i]
|
BR
|
London Paddington –
Swansea
|
1955–1966
|
South Yorkshireman
[11]
|
Bradford Exchange –
Sheffield Victoria –
London Marylebone
|
1948–1960
|
South Yorkshireman
|
EMR
|
Sheffield –
London St Pancras
|
2008 – present
|
Southern Belle (Pullman train)
|
LBSCR /
SR
|
London Victoria –
Brighton
|
1908 – 1934
|
Sunny South Express
[74]
|
LNWR+
LBSCR /
LMS+
SR
|
Liverpool Lime Street –
Brighton
|
1905 – 1939
|
Sussex Scot
|
BR /
Virgin CrossCountry
|
Brighton –
Glasgow Central
Brighton –
Edinburgh Waverley
|
1988 – 2002
|
Talisman
[4]
[5]
|
BR
|
London King's Cross –
Edinburgh Waverley
|
1956 – 1991
|
The Tees Thames
[21]
|
London King's Cross –
Middlesbrough –
Saltburn
|
1959 – 1961
|
Tees-Tyne Pullman
[11]
[16]
[21]
|
London King's Cross –
Newcastle
|
1948 – 2004
|
Thames-Clyde Express
|
LMS /
BR
|
Glasgow Central –
Carlisle –
Leeds –
London St Pancras; before 1966 from
Glasgow St Enoch
|
1927 – 1976
|
Thames Forth Express
|
LMS
|
Edinburgh Waverley –
Carlisle –
Leeds –
London St Pancras (Re-introduced in 1957 by
BR as
Waverley)
|
1927 – 1939
|
Thanet Belle
[11] (Pullman train) later the Kentish Belle
|
BR
|
London –
Margate,
Broadstairs and
Ramsgate
|
1948 – 1951
|
Torbay Express
[11]
|
GWR (original) /
BR /
GWR
|
London Paddington –
Paignton
|
1923 – present
|
The Tynesider
[5]
[21]
|
BR
|
London King's Cross –
Newcastle Central (
sleeper train)
|
1950 – 1968
|
Ulster Express
[75]
|
LMS
BR
|
London Euston –
Morecambe and
Heysham
|
1927 – 1975
|
Venice-Simplon Orient Express
|
Orient Express
|
London Victoria –
Paris
Est –
Venice
Santa Lucia
|
1982 – present
|
Waverley
|
BR
|
Edinburgh Waverley –
Carlisle –
Leeds –
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
|
LMS
|
London Euston –
Holyhead portions for
Llandudno,
Porthmadog &
Pwllheli
|
|
The Wessex Scot
[41]
|
BR /
Virgin CrossCountry
|
Poole –
Glasgow Central
|
1984 – 2002
|
West Riding Limited
[76]
|
LNER;
BR;
VTEC;
LNER
|
London King's Cross –
Bradford Exchange (
Bradford Interchange from 1978;
Bradford Forster Square from c.1990)
|
1937 – present
|
West Riding Pullman
[51]
|
LNER
|
London King's Cross –
Harrogate and
Newcastle
|
1928 – 1935; (succeeded by the
Yorkshire Pullman)
|
Weymouth Wizard
|
GWR
|
Bristol Temple Meads –
Weymouth
|
2014 – 2017
|
White Rose
[16]
|
BR
|
Bradford Exchange –
Leeds –
London St Pancras
|
1949 – 1967
|
The William Shakespeare
[77]
|
BR
|
London Paddington –
Stratford-upon-Avon
|
1951
|
Y Cymro – The Welshman
|
GWR
|
Swansea and
London Paddington
|
2017
|
Yorkshire Pullman
[16]
[22]
|
BR
|
London King's Cross –
Hull,
Bradford Exchange and
Harrogate
|
1935 – 1978
|
Yorkshire Pullman
[78]
|
BR
|
London King's Cross –
Leeds
|
1985 – 2004
|
Zephyr
[2]
|
Grand Central
|
Sunderland –
London King's Cross (one way only)
|
2008
[2] – 2010[
citation needed]
|