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The Highland Chieftain is a named British passenger train operated by London North Eastern Railway. It operates daily in each direction between London King's Cross and Inverness via the East Coast and Highland Main Line. It is one of the longest train journeys in the United Kingdom at 581 miles with a journey time of eight hours.
The Highland Main Line is a railway line in Scotland. It is 118 mi (190 km) long and runs through the central Scottish Highlands, mainly following the route of the A9, and linking a series of small towns and villages with Perth at one end and Inverness at the other. Today, services between Inverness and Edinburgh, Glasgow and London use the line.
Highland Chieftain: GNER / VTEC /LNER: Inverness – London King's Cross: 1984–present [54] Highlandman: LNER: Fort William Perth Inverness – London King's Cross: 1927 – 1939 [55] Hook Continental (boat train) LNER / BR: London Liverpool Street – Harwich Parkeston Quay: 1927 – 1939; 1945 – 1987 (Succeeded by Admiraal de Ruijter) [15 ...
The Heritage Strathspey Railway operates seasonal services over the former Highland Railway route from Aviemore to Grantown-on-Spey via the joint Highland and GNoSR Boat of Garten station. [125] The Dava Way is a long-distance path that mostly follows the route of the former Highland railway line between Grantown and Forres. [126]
The "Highland Chieftain", the daily London North Eastern Railway service from London King's Cross to Inverness and vice versa also calls here. Falkirk is also served by the railway station at Falkirk High. East Coast InterCity 125 departing Falkirk Grahamston with a southbound Highland Chieftain service to London King's Cross.
This was an extension of a London-to-Edinburgh service with a daily service operating between King's Cross and Inverness, departing at 12:00 with the southbound service departing Inverness at 7:55 (09–40 Sundays), named the Highland Chieftain.
There are two direct trains per day to London: the Highland Chieftain, operated by London North Eastern Railway to King's Cross (from Inverness), while the Caledonian Sleeper runs overnight to Euston. [31] Perth and Kinross is home to five other stations: Gleneagles, Dunblane, Pitlochry, Dunkeld & Birnam and Blair Atholl.
Gleneagles is also served by the daily Highland Chieftain through service between Inverness and London King's Cross and the Caledonian Sleeper to London Euston each evening except Saturdays. Connections for Edinburgh Waverley are available at Stirling at other times.