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TITLED
TRAINS
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ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF
The
350
entries
From the publishers of
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By Nick Pigott
The ultimate directory of Great Britain’s named expresses
Author and Editor
Nick Pigott
Designer
Tim Pipes
Leanne Lawrence
Reprographics
Jonathan Schofield
Sub-Editor
Nigel Devereux
Group production editor
Tim Hartley
Production manager
Craig Lamb
Publisher
Dan Savage
Commercial director
Nigel Hole
Business development director
Terry Clark
Managing director
Brian Hill
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Contents
INTRODUCTION
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Page 4
GUIDANCE NOTES
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Page 8
A to Z LISTINGS OF PASSENGER TRAINS
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Page 10
BRAND NAMES
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Page 20
CLUB TRAINS
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Page 26
SOUTH WESTERN BOAT TRAINS
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Page 27
TITLED TRAINS AND TANK ENGINES
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Page 51
HOLIDAY TRAINS AND EXCURSIONS
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Page 57
INTERNATIONAL NAMED TRAINS
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Page 67
Above: One of the most famous
trains in British railway history
was the ‘Silver Jubilee’,
introduced in 1935 to mark the
25th anniversary of King George
V. In 1977, British Rail took the
happy decision to revive the
title for Queen Elizabeth II’s 25th
anniversary and produced
locomotive headboards bearing
this ceremonial coat of arms
Facing page: The ‘Big Four’
companies made much use of
art deco posters to promote
their named expresses in the
1930s. This LMS artwork
portrays the speed and glamour
of ‘The Coronation Scot’.
FRONT COVER: Clockwise from
top left: The‘Golden Arrow’(with
35015
Rotterdam Lloyd
at
Sydenham Hill in April 1959);
‘The Royal Scot’with 46223
Princess Alice
at Glasgow Central
in 1959;‘The Cheltenham Spa
Express’(with 7035
Ogmore
Castle
at Purton in 1962);‘The
Flying Scotsman’(with a‘Deltic’
in 1964). R C RILEY, HUGH
BALLANTYNE and COLOUR-RAIL.
Printed by:
William Gibbons & Son, Wolverhampton
ISBN
978-1-906167-82-0
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Page 80
NAMED FREIGHT TRAINS
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Page 81
PULLMANS THAT WEREN’T
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Page 83
LAND CRUISES
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Page 96
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IRISH NAMED TRAINS
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Page 111
THE DEMISE OF TITLED TRAINS
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Page 114
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INTRODUCTION
Named
Expresses
F
OR any enthusiast who fell in love with railways during
Welcome to the
glamorous
world of
Picture on facing page:
A remarkable collection
of BR-style locomotive
headboards on one of the
walls of the National
Railway Museum in York.
Each colour represents a
different Region of BR – red
for the London Midland
Region, dark blue for the
Eastern and light blue for
the Scottish. Missing from
this particular display are
brown Western Region and
green Southern Region
boards – the green of ‘The
Northern Irishman’ being
a one-off to reflect the
national colour of the
‘emerald isle’ (although,
surprisingly, ‘The Emerald
Isle Express’ hasn’t been
so honoured!) Odd men out
are ‘The Condor’ (a named
freight train) and the
charter train boards in
the top two corners.
Picture
:
CHRIS MILNER
the 1950s and early ’60s, named expresses will almost
certainly hold a fascination. Children’s picture books
in that era contained paintings and other colourful
illustrations of famous trains such as ‘The Royal Scot’
and the ‘Atlantic Coast Express’ steaming through idyllic,
sun-kissed countryside.
On some main lines, it was possible to witness a
procession of headboards bearing names that hinted
at romantic and glamorous far-off destinations, such
as the ‘Golden Arrow’ and the ‘Cornish Riviera’.
It was an exciting time to be a rail enthusiast and a
rewarding time to be a passenger, for it was clear that
the railways were going out of their way to add a touch
of quality to an otherwise austere post-war scene.
This encyclopaedia is a fully revised, updated and
enlarged version of a directory that appeared in
The
Railway Magazine
as a four-part series over the winter
of 2011/12 (issues 1,327, 1,329, 1,330 and 1,331). It
contains numerous new photographs and several
additional minor train names it was not possible to
include in the previous series due to lack of space.
It is thus by far and away the most comprehensive
directory of British titled trains ever published. The few
books dedicated solely to the subject in the past have
all featured only selections of trains, while other forms
of media have compiled only lists, without descriptions.
This book contains no fewer than 360 seperate
entries (well over 400 if the miscellaneous listings are
included) and provides an invaluable record of
Britain’s railway heyday. It is also a celebration of the
wonderful era when almost every major British city had
its own prestige service to London. More often than
not, the title of the train would reflect some aspect of
that city’s history or individuality (e.g. ‘The Master
Cutler’ (Sheffield), ‘The Mayflower’ (Plymouth), ‘The
Robin Hood’ (Nottingham), ‘The Granite City’
(Aberdeen) and ‘The Mary Rose’ (Portsmouth).
Then there were the Pullmans – opulent, prestigious,
glamorous, luxurious. Until the early 1960s, these cars
were privately owned and contained table lamps,
curtains and polished veneer. They excited schoolboy
spotters on the lineside and turned a train ride from a
mere journey into an unforgettable experience.
The habit of referring to a train by a name dates
back to the 1840s with the ‘Irish Mail’ and the ‘Flying
Dutchman’, but it wasn’t until 1876 that the first
officially-sanctioned train title appeared with the
‘Granville Special Express’.
Even after that, it was to be several more decades
before the idea of train-naming really took off in a big
way in the 1920s.
The Railway Magazine
has previous involvement in
this subject, having helped the Great Western Railway
name the ‘Cornish Riviera Express’ by way of an
exclusive readers’ competition in the Edwardian era,
more than 100 years ago. It has also faithfully recorded
the remarkable rise and fall of the train-naming
phenomenon in Great Britain, there now being a mere
handful of titles left in service.
Although carriage roofboards had been carried on
some trains since the Victorian era, the physical
attachment of a name to the front of a locomotive on
a regular basis is not thought to have occured until a
couple of years before the First World War when the
North British Railway began attaching a headboard to
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