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The service from Penzance to London is similar but also calls at Totnes (and omits Lostwithiel and Hayle which are served by the train from London to Penzance) and sets down only at Reading. [31] Sleeper berth passengers have the use of the First Class Lounge waiting facilities at Paddington that are usually reserved for First Class passengers ...
It’s one of only two sleeper train services in Britain, the other being the Night Riveria Sleeper, which heads west from London Paddington to the Cornish seaside town of Penzance). It’s a ...
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 ...
Under BR sleeping cars were limited to just the Penzance service [2] After nationalisation there were two major investments in the sleeper fleet. The first occurred between 1957 and 1964 when 380 Mark 1 sleeping car carriages were built to replace the fleets inherited from the GWR, LMS and LNER.
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
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]