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In January 2024, LNER announced a simpler fares trial for Newcastle, Berwick-upon-Tweed and Edinburgh to London Kings Cross, scrapping the super off-peak fares, the regulated fare and a de facto cap on ticket prices, and replacing it with a 70-minute flex, a yield managed advance fare which allows customers to catch a train 70 minutes before or ...
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.
The northbound service departs London King's Cross at 10:00 am, and the southbound service departs Aberdeen at 09:52 am. The route is one of the longest in Britain [ citation needed ] at 523 miles (842 km) and the train takes just over seven hours to cover the journey.
Great Northern express services between London King's Cross & Ely / King's Lynn / Peterborough and Great Northern stopping services between London King's Cross & Letchworth Garden City / Cambridge: 2014–2017 Siemens Desiro: 717 Desiro City [18] 85 137 25 6 Northern City Line services between Moorgate & Welwyn Garden City / Stevenage via ...
Historically, the principal train service between London and the Scottish Highlands was The Clansman, which ran via the West Coast Main Line.. The Highland Chieftain was introduced with the May 1984 timetable on the East Coast Main Line and was intended to replace The Clansman; the running time then was 8 hours 40 minutes southbound and 8 hours 50 minutes northbound.
Advert from 1950. The West Riding Limited was introduced by the London and North Eastern Railway in 1937 to operate between London King's Cross and Leeds and Bradford. [2] The company built a new set of carriages, identical to the Coronation sets of 1935 which comprised four twin articulated coaches with two kitchen cars in each train set.
Fenchurch Street is one of four railway stations on the standard UK Monopoly board, alongside Liverpool Street, Marylebone and King's Cross. All are former LNER terminal stations. [78] The 2005 football hooliganism film Green Street used the station to represent Manchester Piccadilly. [79]
London King's Cross to Aberdeen, Inverness, Hull Paragon, Harrogate and Skipton, and Leeds to Aberdeen 1976–1982 Mark 3 carriage: Passenger carriage: 56 1975–1988 InterCity 225 trains: Class 91: Electric locomotive: 140 225 31 London King's Cross to Leeds, Edinburgh Waverley, Bradford Forster Square, Newcastle and Glasgow Central 1988–1991