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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).
The Night Riviera stock was the first on the route fitted with controlled emission toilets. [ 3 ] As of October 2019 [update] , the only mainline operator of this type of carriages are Great Western Railway on the Night Riviera , whose fleet was refurbished in 2017.
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]
The Night Riviera sleeper service from London to Penzance will not run for a number of nights. In addition to the disruption on strike days, trains on adjacent days may be affected.
All Caledonian Sleeper services between London and Scotland are cancelled until Friday 27 December, while the Night Riviera Sleeper linking London with Plymouth and Penzance is out of action until ...
GWR's Night Riviera service also included the UK's last Motorail service, until that aspect was withdrawn at the end of the 2005 summer season due to low usage. First Great Western previously leased 14 Class 180 Adelante units, operating on the Great Western Main Line, but following technical issues they were transferred elsewhere.
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)
The West Cornwall Railway took over the Hayle company on 3 November 1846. It extended the line westwards to Penzance railway station and opened a new, more convenient, Redruth railway station on 11 March 1852. Later that year the line was continued eastwards to a temporary station at Truro Highertown, and was completed to a station at Newham ...