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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 ...
On 24 October 1964 it hauled the last booked steam-hauled train from London King's Cross. It was twenty minutes late through Grantham owing to a broken rail at High Dyke. It was the last steam locomotive to be overhauled at Doncaster whilst in service in November 1963. [4] It was withdrawn from British Railways service on 1 June 1966.
The remaining steam engine is scheduled to run July 19-20 and Aug. 9-10, 15-18, 23-24, and 30-31. There will also be September and October dates announced at a later date.
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.
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