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The service was to run once per day in each direction, departing from Newcastle Central at 10:00 am and returning from London King's Cross at 5:30 pm. [1] [2] [3] To operate the service, an entirely new train was constructed – four locomotives (one of which was spare) and seven carriages were ordered in March 1935, all to new designs.
King's Cross railway station, also known as London King's Cross, is a passenger railway terminus in the London Borough of Camden, on the edge of Central London.It is in the London station group, one of the busiest stations in the United Kingdom and the southern terminus of the East Coast Main Line to Yorkshire and the Humber, North East England and Scotland.
London King's Cross – Edinburgh Waverley: 1956 – 1991 The Tees Thames [21] London King's Cross – Middlesbrough – Saltburn: 1959 – 1961 Tees-Tyne Pullman [11] [16] [21] London King's Cross – Newcastle: 1948 – 2004 Thames-Clyde Express: LMS / BR: Glasgow Central – Carlisle –Leeds – London St Pancras; before 1966 from Glasgow ...
No. 60163 Tornado, capable of 100 miles per hour (160 km/h) but at the time restricted to 75 miles per hour (120 km/h), broke a number of records for preserved steam locomotive operation in Britain, including the first 'non-stop' all-steam-hauled passenger train from London King's Cross to Edinburgh Waverley in 41 years, and a first for the ...
The Elizabethan was a British Railways non-stop passenger train that ran between London King's Cross and Edinburgh Waverley in the United Kingdom. The daily service, which operated for ten years from 1953 to 1963, took just over 6hrs. It was hauled by steam engines until they were replaced by diesel units in 1961.
British Railways poster celebrating the centenary of the Flying Scotsman.The locomotives shown are a GNR Sturrock Single and a Class 55 Deltic The Flying Scotsman hauled by LNER Class A1 No. 2547 Doncaster in 1928 The Flying Scotsman hauled by 4488 Union of South Africa at London King's Cross in 1948 Deltic The Black Watch with the Flying Scotsman and headboard 91101 in Flying Scotsman livery ...
Allocated to Kings Cross shed, it was withdrawn from service on 29 December 1962 when the East Coast Main Line express services were taken over by Class 55 'Deltic' diesel locomotives. It was not preserved after withdrawal and was broken up for scrap at Doncaster Works on 7 September 1963, on the same site where it had been built nearly twenty ...
In 1967, carrying a Great Western livery, it hauled trains to mark closure of the GWR route to Birkenhead, from King's Cross to Newcastle and over the Settle-Carlisle Line. In 1972, it joined in the "Return to Steam" tours. After a major overhaul, it emerged in British Railways livery in 1985.