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The Elizabethan was a British Railways non-stop passenger train that ran between London King's Cross and Edinburgh Waverley in the United Kingdom. The daily service, which operated for ten years from 1953 to 1963, took just over 6hrs. It was hauled by steam engines until they were replaced by diesel units in 1961.
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 [53] LMS / BR: Inverness ...
King's Cross railway station, also known as London King's Cross, is a passenger railway terminus in the London Borough of Camden, on the edge of Central London.It is in the London station group, one of the busiest stations in the United Kingdom and the southern terminus of the East Coast Main Line to Yorkshire and the Humber, North East England and Scotland.
No. 4472 hauled the inaugural non-stop train from London on 1 May 1928, and it successfully ran the 392 miles (631 km) between Edinburgh and London without stopping, a record at the time for a scheduled service (although the London, Midland and Scottish Railway had four days earlier staged a one-off publicity coup by running a non-stop Royal ...
Elizabethan Express is a 1954 British Transport Film that follows The Elizabethan, a non-stop British Railways service from London King's Cross to Edinburgh Waverley along the East Coast Main Line. Although originally intended as an advertising short, it now acts as a nostalgic record of the halcyon years of steam on British Railways and the ex ...
Train versus plane between London and Edinburgh: rail wins, but not by too much ... On Edinburgh-London the saving is a handy 72 per cent. A return train, out on 27 May and returning four days ...