| 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 / GWR
|
Bristol Temple Meads – Great Malvern London Paddington – Hereford
|
May 1884 – May 1997[37] June 2024 – present[38]
|
| Day Continental (boat train)
|
LNER / BR
|
London Liverpool Street – Harwich Parkeston Quay
|
1946[39] – 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[40]
|
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[42]
|
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 Grand Central (Belfast Great Victoria Street from 1947 to 1976, Belfast Central from 1976 to 2018, and Belfast Lanyon Place from 2018 to 2024) & Dublin Connolly
|
1947–present
|
| Essex Coast Express[44]
|
BR
|
London Liverpool Street – Clacton
|
1958 – 1968[45]
|
| The European[46]
|
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[47]
|
London Liverpool Street – Hunstanton; after 1969 to King's Lynn
|
1949 – 1968
|
Fife Coast Express[47] (Ran as Fifeshire Coast Express 1912 – 1924)[48]
|
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[49]
|
1862 – present[50]
|
| Flying Carolean[51]
|
GWR
|
London Paddington – Swansea
|
2023 – present[51]
|
| 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[52]
|
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[54]
|
| Highlandman
|
LNER
|
Fort William Perth Inverness – London King's Cross
|
1927 – 1939[55]
|
| 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[57] – 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][58]
|
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[57]
|
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[60]
|
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[61]
|
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[62]
|
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)[63]
|
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[64]
|
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)[65]
|
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][66]
|
BR / GWR
|
London Paddington – Carmarthen
|
1950 – present
|
| The Red Rose[67]
|
BR
|
London Euston – Liverpool Lime Street
|
1951 – 1966
|
| Robin Hood
|
BR / MML / EMR
|
Nottingham – London St Pancras
|
1958 – present
|
| Royal Duchy[68]
|
BR / GWR
|
London Paddington – Penzance and Kingswear
|
1957 – present
|
| Royal Highlander (sleeper train)[69]
|
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[70]
|
SR / BR
|
London Waterloo – Bournemouth Central, Weymouth and Swanage
|
1951 – 1967
|
| Saint David[71]
|
GWR
|
London Paddington – Swansea
|
present
|
| The Scandinavian[72]
|
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[73]
|
LNER/BR
|
London King's Cross – Newcastle / Edinburgh Waverley (1977)
|
1935 – 1939; 1977
|
| South Wales Pullman[74][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[75]
|
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[76]
|
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[42]
|
BR / Virgin CrossCountry
|
Poole – Glasgow Central
|
1984 – 2002
|
| West Riding Limited[77]
|
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[52]
|
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[78]
|
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[79]
|
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]
|