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The Night Riviera is a sleeper train operated by Great Western Railway (GWR). It is one of only two sleeper services on the railway in the United Kingdom (the other being the Caledonian Sleeper services between London and Scotland).
When the railways came into public ownership in 1948, British railways inherited a number of night train services from The Big Four.Sleeping car services were operated on the West, East coast routes and GWR mainlines to multiple destinations, that where, but not limited to London Paddington to Birkenhead Woodside, Manchester Piccadilly to Plymouth, Liverpool Lime Street to London Euston and ...
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 ...
Locomotive and Train Working in the Latter Part of the Nineteenth Century. Vol. 4. Cambridge: Heffer. OCLC 606019476. Bryan, Tim (2004). All in a Day's Work: Life on the GWR. Ian Allan. ISBN 0-7110-2964-4. Channon, Geoffrey (1985). Bristol and the Promotion of the Great Western Railway. Bristol Historical Association. ISBN 0-901388-45-9.
1. Start with a little research. First, make sure routes exist between your desired cities. Back on Track, a European rail advocacy group, maintains a night train database with all current and ...
Simon Calder was at Paris Gare de l’Est to meet the new arrival from Berlin: the overnight sleeper between the French and German capitals
A few sleeping cars were operated on the broad gauge and such carriages became familiar on overnight trains. Restaurant cars became practical following the introduction of corridor trains; the first cars in 1896 were for first class passengers only but a second class buffet car appeared on the Milford Boat Train in 1900.
This 500-mile journey from Britain’s south to north is nicknamed the Deerstalker – a White Stag is the Caledonian Sleeper’s logo – and it’s considered the most scenic of the train’s ...