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National Express East Coast (NXEC) which runs a service to and from Glasgow Central on an approximately two-hour frequency. Virgin Trains use the line to run services to England (to London and Birmingham). CrossCountry trains operate services from Glasgow to Edinburgh for destinations to the southcoast.
SuperVoyagers were also used on Virgin's London-Scotland via Birmingham services, even though this route is entirely electrified – this situation is, however, changing since the expansion of the Pendolino fleet; from 2013 onward Class 390 sets have been routinely deployed on Edinburgh/Glasgow–Birmingham services.
The 10.00 a.m. express from Euston arrived at Glasgow Central at 6.30 p.m.; it was not named, and conveyed through carriages from Birmingham. It required 2 hours 26 minutes from Carlisle to Glasgow, calling only at Motherwell "when required". There were several night trains to Glasgow and to the northern lines. [6]
1 tph to Chester, of which six trains per day continue to Holyhead and one train per day continues to Wrexham General; 1 tph to Preston via Warrington Bank Quay and Wigan North Western: 2 trains per day extend to Blackpool North only, with 1 train every 2 hours running to Edinburgh (7tpd) and 6 trains per day (tpd) running to Glasgow Central.
It later merged with the Glasgow, Paisley and Greenock Railway, which had opened in parts between July 1840 and March 1841. Together with the LNWR it operated the West Coast Main Line train services between London and Glasgow, and to Edinburgh, via Carstairs. The Glasgow and South Western Railway (G&SWR) First section opened 1850.
The Summer 1999 National Rail Timetable indicates the trains would have called at the following stations, with one train per day on the ECML Glasgow route, and two running to Manchester, one via the Trent Valley line and one via the Birmingham line. The faster train would not have called at stations between Stafford and Milton Keynes.
In 1953 a modest time improvement was introduced to save 15 minutes on the schedule with the train leaving London Euston at 1.30pm and arriving at Glasgow at 9.35pm. [5] Four coaches of the Mid-Day Scot derailed at Uddingston railway station, nine miles south of Glasgow on 17 June 1957. One person was killed and five were injured.
The Alabama and Tennessee River Railway (reporting mark ATN) is a shortline railway operating (via lease) over trackage formerly operated by CSX Transportation. The line's western terminus is a junction with the CSX (former Louisville and Nashville Railroad ) main line in Birmingham, Alabama , near CSX's Boyles Yard.