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The coaches have not often been used on any other services. However, on summer Saturdays from 2015 until 2018 the seating coaches from a Night Riviera set operated a daytime service from St Erth to Exeter St Davids and back to Penzance. [33] [34] Additionally, a Night Riviera set operated a service to Oxford in February 2010. [35]
On 11 July 1983 the Penzance sleeper was relaunched as the Night Riviera, designed to complement the long-established daytime Cornish Riviera. [5] The seating carriages that formed part of the train were mainly Mark 2 carriages. [6] The train by now was again leaving London at midnight, shown in the timetables as 23:59. [7]
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)
Caledonian Sleeper is the collective name for overnight sleeper train services between London and Scotland, in the United Kingdom.It is one of only two currently operating sleeper services on the railway in the United Kingdom – the other being the Night Riviera, which runs between London and Penzance.
During September 1999, the franchised train operator First Great Western relaunched a service from London Paddington to Penzance as part of its Night Riviera overnight sleeper service using eight converted general utility vans. [22] [21] First Great Western opted to permanently withdrew this service at the end of summer 2005. [23]
The Cornish Riviera Express is a British express passenger train that has run between London Paddington and Penzance in Cornwall since 1904. Introduced by the Great Western Railway, the name Cornish Riviera Express has been applied to the late morning express train from London to Penzance continuously through nationalisation under British Rail and privatisation under First Great Western, only ...
The route map for the May to December 2019 LNER timetable The five daily Lincoln services, which are an extension of terminating services at Newark North Gate, will go live during the currency of this timetable [2] London North Eastern Railway [3] (LNER) is a British train operating company which operates most services on the East Coast Main Line.
The Tamar Bridge (background) and Royal Albert Bridge (foreground) carry road and rail links into Cornwall. The inland transport network consists of longitudinal spines (the A30, A38 and A39 trunk roads (though the A39 is no longer designated as such) and the former Great Western Railway main line through Cornwall) from which secondary roads and railway branch lines radiate to ports and ...