This article contains lists of named passenger trains in the United Kingdom. These are specific regular journeys identified by a special name in the timetable, not to be confused with the names of engines or individual physical train rakes. One-off charter and sporadic special trains are not included.
| Train name | Company/ies | Journey endpoints | Dates operated | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21st Century Limited[1] [2] | Grand Central | - (one way only) | 2008 – 2010 | |
| Aberdonian | BR Serco | - (sleeper service - later Night Aberdonian) | 1927 - ?2012 Jan - Mar 2016 | |
| Aberdonian | BR | - (daytime InterCity 125 service) | ?1977 - 1994 | |
| Admiraal de Ruijter | BR / NS | - Harwich Parkeston Quay - ferry - - | 1987 - 1989 | |
| Antwerp Continental (boat train) | LNER | - Harwich Parkeston Quay - Harwich Town | ? - 1954 | |
| Armada | GWR | - | ? - present | |
| Atlantic Coast Express[3] | SR / BR | -,,,,, Padstow, | 1926 - 1948 - 1964 | |
| Atlantic Coast Express[4] | GWR | - | 2008 - present | |
| Belfast Boat Express (boat train)[5] | BR | - and | ? - 1960 - 1975 | |
| Benjamin Britten[6] | BR / NS | - Harwich Parkeston Quay - ferry - - | 1987 - 1989[7] | |
| Birmingham Pullman | BR | - | 1960 – 1966 | |
| Bon Accord[8] | - Glasgow Buchanan Street | 1949 - 1968 | ||
| Bournemouth Belle (Pullman train) | SR / BR | - / | 1931 - 1967 | |
| Brighton Belle (Pullman train) | SR / BR | - | 1934 - 1972 | |
| Brighton Limited (Pullman train) | LBSCR | 1887 - 1908 | ||
| Brighton Pullman Limited (Pullman train)[9] | 1898 - 1908 | |||
| Bristol Pullman (Pullman train) | BR | - | 1960 - 1973 | |
| Bristolian | GWR (original) / BR / GWR | - non-stop[10] (original); to (current) | 1935 - present | |
| Broadsman | BR | - and | 1950 - 1962 | |
| Caledonian | - | 1957 - 1964 | ||
| Caledonian Sleeper (night train) | InterCity West Coast / ScotRail (British Rail) / ScotRail (National Express) / First ScotRail / Caledonian Sleeper | - - - - - | 1996 - present | |
| Cambrian Coast Express | GWR (original) / BR | (later) - - | 1927 - 1991 | |
| Capitals Limited | BR | London King's Cross - (non-stop London King's Cross to Edinburgh Waverley) | 1949 - 1952 (succeeded by Elizabethan) | |
| Capitals United Express | - - | 1956 - 1963 | ||
| Capitals United | GWR | - | 2010 - present | |
| Carmarthen Bay Express | GWR | - | 1927[11] - ???? | |
| Carolean Express[12] | LNER | - | May 2023 – present | |
| Cathedrals Express | BR / GWR | - - | 1957 - present | |
| Cheltenham Spa Express (also known as The Cheltenham Flyer)[13] | GWR (original) / BR / GWR | - | 1929 - present | |
| Clansman | BR | - via | 1974[14] - 1984 | |
| Comet[15] | BR | - | 1949[16] - 1962 | |
| Cornish Riviera Express | GWR (original) / BR / GWR | - | 1904 - present | |
| Cornish Scot[17] | BR / Virgin CrossCountry | - | 1987 - 2002 | |
| Cornishman | GWR (original) | - | 1890 - 1904 1935 - 1936 | |
| Cornishman | BR | (Bradford Exchange) - - and | 1951 - 1975 | |
| Cornishman | BR | - | 1983 - 2002 | |
| Cornishman | GWR | - | 2006 - present | |
| Coronation[18] | LNER | - | 1937 - 1939 | |
| Coronation Scot | LMS | - | 1937 - 1939 | |
| Cotswolds and Malvern Express | GWR (original) / BR / Wales & West | - | May 1884 - May 1997 | |
| Day Continental (boat train) | LNER / BR | - Harwich Parkeston Quay | 1946[19] - 1987 (succeeded by Benjamin Britten) | |
| Devon Belle (Pullman train) | SR / BR | - Ilfracombe - | 1947 - 1954 | |
| Devon Express | GWR | - | ? - present | |
| Devon Scot[20] | BR / Virgin CrossCountry | - - | 1988 - 2002 | |
| Devonian | LMS / BR | (Bradford Exchange from 1967; from 1980) - - (winter) - (summer) | 1927 - 2002 | |
| Dorset Scot[21] | BR / Virgin CrossCountry | - Newcastle - | 1990 - 2002 | |
| East Anglian | - | 1937–present | ||
| The Easterling | BR | - and | 1950 - 1958 | |
| The Elizabethan (summer only) | BR | - (non-stop) | 1953 - 1964 | |
| Emerald Isle Express | - and | 1954 - 1960 - 1975; 1993 - 1997 | ||
| Enterprise | GNR(I) / UTA+CIÉ / NIR+IÉ | (until 1976) & | 1947–present | |
| Essex Coast Express[22] | BR | - | 1958 - 1968[23] | |
| The European[24] | and - | 1983 - 1988 | ||
| Fair Maid | - Perth | 1957 - 1958 (succeeded by Morning Talisman) | ||
| Fenman | BR | - ; after 1969 to | 1949 - 1968 | |
| Fife Coast Express (Ran as Fifeshire Coast Express 1912 - 1924) | NBR / LNER / BR | St Andrews - | 1948 - 1959 | |
| Flying Dutchman | GWR (original)+BER | - | 1849 - 1892 | |
| Flying Scotsman | - From May 2011: Edinburgh to London, one way only[25] | 1862 - present[26] | ||
| Flying Carolean[27] | GWR | - | 2023 - present | |
| Golden Arrow (boat train) | SR / BR | - or | 1929 - 1972 | |
| Golden Hind | BR / GWR | - | 1964 - present | |
| Granite City | ? / BR | - Glasgow Buchanan Street | 1933 - 1939; 1948 - | |
| Harrogate Pullman[28] | LNER | - and | 1923 - 1928 (Succeeded by the West Riding Pullman) | |
| Harrogate Sunday Pullman | BR | - and | 1950s - late 1960s | |
| Heart of Midlothian | - | 1951 - 1968 | ||
| The Hebridean | LMS / BR | - | 1933 - ???? 1965 - ???? | |
| Highland Chieftain | - | 1984–present[29] | ||
| Highlandman | LNER | - | 1927 - 1939[30] | |
| Hook Continental (boat train) | LNER / BR | - Harwich Parkeston Quay | 1927 – 1939; 1945 – 1987 (Succeeded by Admiraal de Ruijter) | |
| Hull Executive | Hull - | 1978–2015 | ||
| Inter-City | BR | - | 1950–1965 | |
| Irish Mail (boat train) | LNWR / LMS / BR / Virgin | - | 1849 - 1985, 1990s - 2002 | |
| Irishman (boat train) | BR | - | 1951 ? | |
| John O'Groat | LMS | Inverness - – Wick | 1936 - 39 | |
| Kentish Belle (Pullman train) formerly the Thanet Belle | BR | London - – Margate, Broadstairs and Ramsgate | 1951 - 58 | |
| Lakes Express | LMS / BR | London Euston - Windermere, Keswick, Workington | 1927[31] - 1939; 1945 - 1965 | |
| Lancastrian | - | 1928 - 1939; 1957 - 1962 | ||
| The Lewisman | LMS | - | 1933 - 1939 | |
| Liverpool Pullman | BR | - London Euston | 1966 - 1974 | |
| Loreley (boat train) | - - - Harwich Parkeston Quay | 1988 - 1992 | ||
| Man of Kent[32] | -, Deal, Sandwich and | 1953 - 1961 | ||
| Manchester Pullman | BR / Virgin | - London Euston | 1966 - 1990s | |
| Mancunian | LMS / BR | - | 1927 - 1966 | |
| The Manxman | - | 1927 - 1966 | ||
| Master Cutler | LNER / BR / MML / EMR | - ; after 1958 to, later to St Pancras; after privatisation from to via . From 2008 no longer from Leeds but again starting at Sheffield. | 1947 - present | |
| Mayflower[33] | BR / GWR | and - | 1957 - present | |
| The Merchant Venturer | - and | 1951 - present | ||
| Merseyside Express | BR | - | 1949 - 1966 | |
| Midland Pullman | - with midday infill - | 1960–1966 | ||
| Mid-Day Scot | LMS / BR | - | 1927 - 1965 | |
| Midlands Express | BR / MML | - | 1999 - 2008 | |
| Night Ferry | SR / BR | - Paris Nord) later also to Brussels (Midi/Zuid) after 1948 also second-class coaches as far as | 1936 - 1980 | |
| Night Riviera | GWR | - | 19th century - present | |
| Night Scot[34] | LNWR / BR | London Euston - (sleeper train) | From inauguration in 1927 it ran to Aberdeen, but this was soon after changed to Glasgow. | |
| Night Scotsman | LNER / BR | London King's Cross - (sleeper train) | 1930s to transfer of all Scottish sleepers to Euston | |
| Norfolk Coast Express | 1907 - 1914 | |||
| The Norfolkman | BR | - | 1947 - 1962; 1993 - 2000 | |
| Norseman[35] | London King's Cross - Newcastle Tyne Commission Quay (to connect with Bergen Line or Fred Olsen Line shipping services to Norway). | 1947 - 1966 | ||
| North Briton | - | 1952 - 1968; 1972 - 1975 | ||
| Northern Irishman (sleeper train)[36] | - | 1952 - 1966 | ||
| Northern Lights | GNER / NXEC / VTEC | - | present | |
| The Northumbrian | BR | 1949 - 1964 | ||
| Orcadian | LMS | Inverness - to Wick | 1936 - 1939 | |
| Olympic Javelin | Southeastern High Speed | - | 2012 - present | |
| Palatine | LMS / BR | - | 1938 - 1964 | |
| Peaks Express | LMS | 1938–1939 | ||
| Pembroke Coast Express | BR / GWR | - | 1953 - present | |
| Pines Express[37] | SR and LMS / BR | (or), Liverpool and - and | 1927 - 1967; revived in the 1980s/90s | |
| Premier Service | ATW / TfW | - and return | 2008 - present | |
| Pullman Limited Express (Pullman train)[38] | LBSCR | - (via Horsham route) | 1881 - 1887 | |
| Queen of Scots (Pullman train) | LNER / BR | - via and | 1927 - 1939; 1948 - 1978 | |
| The Red Dragon[39] | BR / GWR | - | 1950 - present | |
| The Red Rose[40] | BR | - | 1951 - 1966 | |
| Robin Hood | BR / MML / EMR | - | 1958 - present | |
| Royal Duchy[41] | BR / GWR | - and | 1957 - present | |
| Royal Highlander (sleeper train)[42] | - | 1927 - 1996 | ||
| Royal Scot | LMS / BR / Virgin / Avanti | - | 1927 - 1939; 1948 - 2003; 2021 - present | |
| Royal Wessex[43] | SR / BR | -, and | 1951 - 1967 | |
| Saint David[44] | GWR | - | present | |
| The Scandinavian[45] | BR | - | 1950 | |
| St Mungo | BR | - Glasgow Buchanan Street | 1948 - present | |
| Scarborough Flyer | - | 1927 - 1963 | ||
| Sheffield Continental | EMR | - (one way only) | 2008–present | |
| Silver Jubilee[46] | LNER/BR | - Newcastle / (1977) | 1935 - 1939; 1977 | |
| South Wales Pullman[47] | BR | - | 1955–1966 | |
| South Yorkshireman | - - | 1948–1960 | ||
| South Yorkshireman | EMR | - | 2008 - present | |
| Southern Belle (Pullman train) | LBSCR / SR | - | 1908 - 1934 | |
| Sunny South Express[48] | LNWR+LBSCR / LMS+SR | - | 1905 - 1939 | |
| Sussex Scot | BR / Virgin CrossCountry | - - | 1988 - 2002 | |
| Talisman | BR | - | 1956 - 1991 | |
| The Tees Thames | London King's Cross - - | 1959 - 1961 | ||
| Tees-Tyne Pullman | London King's Cross - Newcastle | 1948 - 2004 | ||
| Thames-Clyde Express | LMS / BR | - - - ; before 1966 from | 1927 - 1976 | |
| Thames Forth Express | - - - (Re-introduced in 1957 by BR as Waverley) | 1927 - 1939 | ||
| Thanet Belle (Pullman train) later the Kentish Belle | BR | London - Margate, Broadstairs and Ramsgate | 1948 - 1951 | |
| Torbay Express | GWR (original) / BR / GWR | - | 1923 - present | |
| The Tynesider | BR | London King's Cross - Newcastle Central (sleeper train) | 1950 - 1968 | |
| Ulster Express[49] | LMS BR | - and | 1927 - 1975 | |
| Venice-Simplon Orient Express | Orient Express | - Paris Est - Venice Santa Lucia | 1982 - present | |
| Waverley | BR | - - - (Re-introduction of the LMS service the Thames Forth Express) | 1957 - 1968 | |
| Welsh Dragon/Draig Gymreig | Virgin | - | 2004 - present | |
| Welshman | LMS | - portions for, & | ||
| The Wessex Scot | BR / Virgin CrossCountry | - | 1984 - 2002 | |
| West Riding Limited[50] | LNER | - (from 1978; from c.1990) | 1937 - present | |
| West Riding Pullman | LNER | - and | 1928 - 1935; (succeeded by the Yorkshire Pullman) | |
| Weymouth Wizard | GWR | - | 2014 - 2017 | |
| White Rose | BR | - - | 1949 - 1967 | |
| The William Shakespeare[51] | BR | - | 1951 | |
| Y Cymro – The Welshman | GWR | and | 2017 | |
| Yorkshire Pullman | BR | - Hull, and | 1935 - 1978 | |
| Yorkshire Pullman[52] | BR | - | 1985 - 2004 | |
| Zephyr | Grand Central | - (one way only) | 2008 – 2010 |
The National Railway Museum, York, has a wall in the Great Hall where the headboards of a number of named trains are displayed. These include:
ANGLO-SCOTTISH CAR CARRIER, BRISTOLIAN*, BROADSMAN*, CALEDONIAN*, CAMBRIAN RADIO CRUISE, CAPITALS LIMITED*+, CAPITALS UNITED EXPRESS, CHELTENHAM FLYER, COMET*, CONDOR (a named freight train, derived from CONtainer DOoR-to-Door), CORNISH RIVIERA EXPRESS, CORNISHMAN*, CTAC SCOTTISH TOURS EXPRESS+, CUNARD SPECIAL+, DAY CONTINENTAL*, DEVONIAN*, EAST ANGLIAN*, EMERALD ISLE EXPRESS, EMPRESS VOYAGER+, FAIR MAID*+, FENMAN*, HARROGATE SUNDAY PULLMAN*, HEART OF MIDLOTHIAN*, INTER-CITY*, IRISH MAIL*, LAKES EXPRESS*, LANCASTRIAN*, MANXMAN*+, MASTER CUTLER*, MAYFLOWER*, MERSEYSIDE EXPRESS*+, MID-DAY SCOT*+, MIDLANDER*, NIGHT SCOTSMAN*, NORFOLKMAN*, NORSEMAN*, NORTH BRITON*, NORTH YORKSHIREMAN*, NORTHERN IRISHMAN*+, NORTHUMBRIAN*+, PALATINE*, PEMBROKE COAST EXPRESS+, QUEEN OF SCOTS*, RED DRAGON*, RED ROSE*, ROBIN HOOD*+, ROYAL DUCHY*, ROYAL HIGHLANDER*+, SCARBOROUGH FLIER, SCARBOROUGH FLYER*, SHAMROCK*+, SOUTH WALES PULLMAN*, TEES-THAMES*, THAMES-CLYDE EXPRESS*, TORBAY EXPRESS, ULSTER EXPRESS, WELSH CHIEFTAIN*, WELSHMAN*, WEST RIDING*
* indicates that the name is prefixed by "THE".
+ indicates that more than one version is on display.[53]
See also railwaybritain.co.uk for a description of a number of Boat Trains, some of which are included in the lists above.