# List of named passenger trains of the United Kingdom

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.
List :
| Train name | Company/ies | Journey endpoints | Dates operated |
| 21st Century Limited | Grand Central | London King's Cross – Sunderland (one way only) | 2008 – 2010 |
| Aberdonian | BR Serco | Aberdeen – London King's Cross (sleeper service - later Night Aberdonian) | 1927 – ?2012 Jan – Mar 2016 |
| Aberdonian | BR | Aberdeen – London King's Cross (daytime InterCity 125 service) | ?1977 – 1994 |
| Admiraal de Ruijter | BR / NS | London Liverpool Street – Harwich Parkeston Quay – ferry – Hoek van Holland Haven – Amsterdam Centraal | 1987 – 1989 |
| Antwerp Continental (boat train) | LNER | London Liverpool Street – Harwich Parkeston Quay – Harwich Town | ? – 1954 |
| Armada | GWR | London Paddington – Plymouth | ? – present |
| Atlantic Coast Express | SR / BR | London Waterloo – Plymouth, Ilfracombe, Sidmouth, Exmouth, Bude, Padstow, Torrington | 1926 – 1948 – 1964 |
| Atlantic Coast Express | GWR | London Paddington – Newquay | 2008 – present |
| Belfast Boat Express (boat train) | BR | Manchester Victoria – Heysham and Morecambe | ? – 1960 – 1975 |
| Benjamin Britten | BR / NS | London Liverpool Street – Harwich Parkeston Quay– ferry – Hoek van Holland Haven – Amsterdam Centraal | 1987 – 1989 |
| Birmingham Pullman | BR | London Paddington – Wolverhampton Low Level | 1960 – 1966 |
| Bon Accord | BR | Aberdeen – Glasgow Buchanan Street | 1949 – 1968 |
| Bournemouth Belle (Pullman train) | SR / BR | London Waterloo – Bournemouth Central/Bournemouth West | 1931 – 1967 |
| Brighton Belle (Pullman train) | SR / BR | London Victoria – Brighton | 1934 – 1972 |
| Brighton Limited (Pullman train) | LBSCR | London Victoria – Brighton | 1887 – 1908 |
| Brighton Pullman Limited (Pullman train) | LBSCR | London Victoria – Brighton | 1898 – 1908 |
| Bristol Pullman (Pullman train) | BR | London Paddington – Bristol Temple Meads | 1960 – 1973 |
| Bristolian | GWR (original) / BR / GWR | London Paddington – Bristol Temple Meads non-stop (original); London Paddington to Weston-super-Mare (current) | 1935 – present |
| Broadsman | BR | London Liverpool Street – Cromer and Sheringham | 1950 – 1962 |
| Caledonian | BR | Glasgow Central – London Euston | 1957 – 1964 |
| Caledonian Sleeper (night train) | InterCity West Coast / ScotRail (British Rail) / ScotRail (National Express) / First ScotRail / Caledonian Sleeper | London Euston – Edinburgh Waverley London Euston – Aberdeen London Euston – Fort William London Euston – Glasgow Central London Euston – Inverness | 1996 – present |
| Cambrian Coast Express | GWR (original) / BR | London Paddington (later London Euston) – Aberystwyth London Paddington – Pwllheli | 1927 – 1991 |
| Capitals Limited | BR | London King's Cross – Aberdeen (non-stop London King's Cross to Edinburgh Waverley) | 1949 – 1952 (succeeded by Elizabethan) |
| Capitals United Express | BR | London Paddington – Cardiff Central London Paddington – Fishguard Harbour | 1956 – 1963 |
| Capitals United | GWR | London Paddington – Swansea | 2010 – present |
| Carmarthen Bay Express | GWR | London Paddington – Tenby | 1927 – ???? |
| Carolean Express | LNER | London King's Cross – Edinburgh Waverley | May 2023 – present |
| Cathedrals Express | BR / GWR | London Paddington – Oxford – Hereford | 1957 – present |
| Cheltenham Spa Express (also known as The Cheltenham Flyer) | GWR (original) / BR / GWR | London Paddington – Cheltenham Spa | 1929 – present |
| Clansman | BR | Inverness – London Euston via Birmingham New Street | 1974 – 1984 |
| Comet | BR | London Euston – Manchester London Road | 1949 – 1962 |
| Cornish Riviera Express | GWR (original) / BR / GWR | London Paddington – Penzance | 1904 – present |
| Cornish Scot | BR / Virgin CrossCountry | Glasgow Central – Penzance | 1987 – 2002 |
| Cornishman | GWR (original) | London Paddington – Penzance | 1890 – 1904 1935 – 1936 |
| Cornishman | BR | (Bradford Exchange) – Wolverhampton Low Level – Penzance and Kingswear | 1951 – 1975 |
| Cornishman | BR | Edinburgh Waverley – Penzance | 1983 – 2002 |
| Cornishman | GWR | London Paddington – Penzance | 2006 – present |
| Coronation | LNER | London King's Cross – Edinburgh Waverley | 1937 – 1939 |
| Coronation Scot | LMS | Glasgow Central – London Euston | 1937 – 1939 |
| Cotswolds and Malvern Express | GWR (original) / BR / Wales & West / GWR | Bristol Temple Meads – Great Malvern London Paddington – Hereford | May 1884 – May 1997 June 2024 – present |
| Day Continental (boat train) | LNER / BR | London Liverpool Street – Harwich Parkeston Quay | 1946 – 1987 (succeeded by Benjamin Britten) |
| Devon Belle (Pullman train) | SR / BR | London Waterloo – Ilfracombe London Waterloo – Plymouth | 1947 – 1954 |
| Devon Express | GWR | London Paddington – Paignton | ? – present |
| Devon Scot | BR / Virgin CrossCountry | Aberdeen – Carlisle – Plymouth | 1988 – 2002 |
| Devonian | LMS / BR | Bradford Forster Square (Bradford Exchange from 1967; Leeds from 1980) – Sheffield Midland – Bristol Temple Meads (winter) – Paignton (summer) | 1927 – 2002 |
| Dorset Scot | BR / Virgin CrossCountry | Poole – Newcastle – Edinburgh Waverley | 1990 – 2002 |
| East Anglian | LNER / BR / Anglia / National Express East Anglia / Abellio Greater Anglia | London Liverpool Street – Norwich | 1937–present |
| The Easterling | BR | London Liverpool Street – Lowestoft and Yarmouth South Town | 1950 – 1958 |
| The Elizabethan (summer only) | BR | London King's Cross – Edinburgh Waverley (non-stop) | 1953 – 1964 |
| Emerald Isle Express | BR | London Euston – Llandudno and Holyhead | 1954 – 1960 – 1975; 1993 – 1997 |
| Enterprise | GNR(I) / UTA+CIÉ / NIR+IÉ | Belfast Central (Belfast Great Victoria Street until 1976) & Dublin Connolly | 1947–present |
| Essex Coast Express | BR | London Liverpool Street – Clacton | 1958 – 1968 |
| The European | BR | Edinburgh Waverley and Glasgow Central – Harwich Parkeston Quay | 1983 – 1988 |
| Fair Maid | BR | London King's Cross – Perth | 1957 – 1958 (succeeded by Morning Talisman) |
| Fenman | BR | London Liverpool Street – Hunstanton; after 1969 to King's Lynn | 1949 – 1968 |
| Fife Coast Express (Ran as Fifeshire Coast Express 1912 – 1924) | NBR / LNER / BR | St Andrews – Glasgow Queen Street | 1948 – 1959 |
| Flying Dutchman | GWR (original)+BER | London Paddington – Exeter St Davids | 1849 – 1892 |
| Flying Scotsman | GNR+NER+NBR / LNER / BR / GNER / NXEC / East Coast / VTEC / LNER | London King's Cross – Edinburgh Waverley From May 2011: Edinburgh to London, one way only | 1862 – present |
| Flying Carolean | GWR | London Paddington – Swansea | 2023 – present |
| Golden Arrow (boat train) | SR / BR | London Victoria – Dover Priory or Folkestone Harbour | 1929 – 1972 |
| Golden Hind | BR / GWR | London Paddington – Penzance | 1964 – present |
| Granite City | ? / BR | Aberdeen – Glasgow Buchanan Street | 1933 – 1939; 1948 – |
| Harrogate Pullman | LNER | London King's Cross – Harrogate and Newcastle | 1923 – 1928 (Succeeded by the West Riding Pullman) |
| Harrogate Sunday Pullman | BR | London King's Cross – Harrogate and Bradford Exchange | 1950s – late 1960s |
| Heart of Midlothian | BR | London King's Cross – Edinburgh Waverley | 1951 – 1968 |
| The Hebridean | LMS / BR | Inverness – Kyle of Lochalsh | 1933 – ???? 1965 – ???? |
| Highland Chieftain | GNER / VTEC /LNER | Inverness – London King's Cross | 1984–present |
| Highlandman | LNER | Fort William Perth Inverness – London King's Cross | 1927 – 1939 |
| Hook Continental (boat train) | LNER / BR | London Liverpool Street – Harwich Parkeston Quay | 1927 – 1939; 1945 – 1987 (Succeeded by Admiraal de Ruijter) |
| Hull Executive | BR / GNER / NXEC / East Coast / VTEC | Hull – London King's Cross | 1978–2015 |
| Inter-City | BR | London Paddington – Wolverhampton Low Level | 1950–1965 |
| Irish Mail (boat train) | LNWR / LMS / BR / Virgin | London Euston – Holyhead | 1849 – 1985, 1990s – 2002 |
| Irishman (boat train) | BR | Glasgow St Enoch – Stranraer | 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 – 1939; 1945 – 1965 |
| Lancastrian | LMS / BR | Manchester London Road – London Euston | 1928 – 1939; 1957 – 1962 |
| The Lewisman | LMS | Inverness – Kyle of Lochalsh | 1933 – 1939 |
| Liverpool Pullman | BR | Liverpool Lime Street – London Euston | 1966 – 1974 |
| Loreley (boat train) | BR | Blackpool North – Manchester Piccadilly – Nottingham – Harwich Parkeston Quay | 1988 – 1992 |
| Man of Kent | BR | London Charing Cross – Dover, Deal, Sandwich and Margate | 1953 – 1961 |
| Manchester Pullman | BR / Virgin | Manchester Piccadilly – London Euston | 1966 – 1990s |
| Mancunian | LMS / BR | Manchester London Road – London Euston | 1927 – 1966 |
| The Manxman | LMS / BR | Liverpool Lime Street – London Euston | 1927 – 1966 |
| Master Cutler | LNER / BR / MML / EMR | Sheffield Victoria – London Marylebone; after 1958 to London King's Cross, later to St Pancras; after privatisation from Leeds to London St Pancras via Sheffield. From 2008 no longer from Leeds but again starting at Sheffield. | 1947 – present |
| Mayflower | BR / GWR | Kingswear and Plymouth – London Paddington | 1957 – present |
| The Merchant Venturer | BR / GWR | London Paddington – Bristol Temple Meads and Weston-super-Mare | 1951 – present |
| Merseyside Express | BR | London Euston – Liverpool Lime Street | 1949 – 1966 |
| Midland Pullman | BR | Manchester Central – London St Pancras with midday infill London St Pancras – Nottingham | 1960–1966 |
| Mid-Day Scot | LMS / BR | Glasgow Central – London Euston | 1927 – 1965 |
| Midlands Express | BR / MML | Sheffield – London St Pancras | 1999 – 2008 |
| Night Ferry | SR / BR | London Victoria – Paris Nord) later also to Brussels (Midi/Zuid) after 1948 also second-class coaches as far as Dover Western Docks | 1936 – 1980 |
| Night Riviera | GWR | London Paddington – Penzance | 19th century – present |
| Night Scot | LNWR / BR | London Euston – Glasgow Central (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 – Edinburgh Waverley (sleeper train) | 1930s to transfer of all Scottish sleepers to Euston |
| Norfolk Coast Express | GER | London Liverpool Street – Cromer | 1907 – 1914 |
| The Norfolkman | BR | Sheringham – London Liverpool Street | 1947 – 1962; 1993 – 2000 |
| Norseman | BR | 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 | BR | Glasgow Queen Street – Leeds | 1952 – 1968; 1972 – 1975 |
| Northern Irishman (sleeper train) | BR | London Euston – Stranraer Harbour | 1952 – 1966 |
| Northern Lights | GNER / NXEC / VTEC | Aberdeen – London King's Cross | present |
| The Northumbrian | BR | London King's Cross – Newcastle | 1949 – 1964 |
| Orcadian | LMS | Inverness – to Wick | 1936 – 1939 |
| Olympic Javelin | Southeastern High Speed | London St Pancras – Ashford International | 2012 – present |
| Palatine | LMS / BR | Manchester Central – London St Pancras | 1938 – 1964 |
| Peaks Express | LMS | Manchester Central – London St Pancras | 1938–1939 |
| Pembroke Coast Express | BR / GWR | London Paddington – Pembroke Dock | 1953 – present |
| Pines Express | SR and LMS / BR | Manchester London Road (or Manchester Mayfield), Liverpool and Sheffield Midland – Bournemouth West and Poole | 1927 – 1967; revived in the 1980s/90s |
| Premier Service | ATW / TfW | Holyhead – Cardiff Central and return | 2008 – present |
| Pullman Limited Express (Pullman train) | LBSCR | London Victoria – Brighton (via Horsham route) | 1881 – 1887 |
| Queen of Scots (Pullman train) | LNER / BR | Glasgow Queen Street – London King's Cross via Harrogate and Leeds Central | 1927 – 1939; 1948 – 1978 |
| The Red Dragon | BR / GWR | London Paddington – Carmarthen | 1950 – present |
| The Red Rose | BR | London Euston – Liverpool Lime Street | 1951 – 1966 |
| Robin Hood | BR / MML / EMR | Nottingham – London St Pancras | 1958 – present |
| Royal Duchy | BR / GWR | London Paddington – Penzance and Kingswear | 1957 – present |
| Royal Highlander (sleeper train) | BR | London Euston – Inverness | 1927 – 1996 |
| Royal Scot | LMS / BR / Virgin / Avanti | Glasgow Central – London Euston | 1927 – 1939; 1948 – 2003; 2021 – present |
| Royal Wessex | SR / BR | London Waterloo – Bournemouth Central, Weymouth and Swanage | 1951 – 1967 |
| Saint David | GWR | London Paddington – Swansea | present |
| The Scandinavian | BR | Liverpool Street – Harwich Parkeston Quay | 1950 |
| St Mungo | BR | Aberdeen – Glasgow Buchanan Street | 1948 – present |
| Scarborough Flyer | BR | London King's Cross – Scarborough | 1927 – 1963 |
| Sheffield Continental | EMR | Sheffield – London St Pancras (one way only) | 2008–present |
| Silver Jubilee | LNER/BR | London King's Cross – Newcastle / Edinburgh Waverley (1977) | 1935 – 1939; 1977 |
| South Wales Pullman | BR | London Paddington – Swansea | 1955–1966 |
| South Yorkshireman | BR | Bradford Exchange – Sheffield Victoria – London Marylebone | 1948–1960 |
| South Yorkshireman | EMR | Sheffield – London St Pancras | 2008 – present |
| Southern Belle (Pullman train) | LBSCR / SR | London Victoria – Brighton | 1908 – 1934 |
| Sunny South Express | LNWR+LBSCR / LMS+SR | Liverpool Lime Street – Brighton | 1905 – 1939 |
| Sussex Scot | BR / Virgin CrossCountry | Brighton – Glasgow Central Brighton – Edinburgh Waverley | 1988 – 2002 |
| Talisman | BR | London King's Cross – Edinburgh Waverley | 1956 – 1991 |
| The Tees Thames | BR | London King's Cross – Middlesbrough – Saltburn | 1959 – 1961 |
| Tees-Tyne Pullman | BR | London King's Cross – Newcastle | 1948 – 2004 |
| Thames-Clyde Express | LMS / BR | Glasgow Central – Carlisle –Leeds – London St Pancras; before 1966 from Glasgow St Enoch | 1927 – 1976 |
| Thames Forth Express | LMS | Edinburgh Waverley – Carlisle –Leeds – London St Pancras (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 | London Paddington – Paignton | 1923 – present |
| The Tynesider | BR | London King's Cross – Newcastle Central (sleeper train) | 1950 – 1968 |
| Ulster Express | LMS BR | London Euston – Morecambe and Heysham | 1927 – 1975 |
| Venice-Simplon Orient Express | Orient Express | London Victoria – Paris Est – Venice Santa Lucia | 1982 – present |
| Waverley | BR | Edinburgh Waverley – Carlisle – Leeds – London St Pancras (Re-introduction of the LMS service the Thames Forth Express) | 1957 – 1968 |
| Welsh Dragon/Draig Gymreig | Virgin | London Euston – Holyhead | 2004 – present |
| Welshman | LMS | London Euston – Holyhead portions for Llandudno, Porthmadog & Pwllheli | |
| The Wessex Scot | BR / Virgin CrossCountry | Poole – Glasgow Central | 1984 – 2002 |
| West Riding Limited | LNER;BR;VTEC;LNER | London King's Cross – Bradford Exchange (Bradford Interchange from 1978; Bradford Forster Square from c.1990) | 1937 – present |
| West Riding Pullman | LNER | London King's Cross – Harrogate and Newcastle | 1928 – 1935; (succeeded by the Yorkshire Pullman) |
| Weymouth Wizard | GWR | Bristol Temple Meads – Weymouth | 2014 – 2017 |
| White Rose | BR | Bradford Exchange – Leeds – London St Pancras | 1949 – 1967 |
| The William Shakespeare | BR | London Paddington – Stratford-upon-Avon | 1951 |
| Y Cymro – The Welshman | GWR | Swansea and London Paddington | 2017 |
| Yorkshire Pullman | BR | London King's Cross – Hull, Bradford Exchange and Harrogate | 1935 – 1978 |
| Yorkshire Pullman | BR | London King's Cross – Leeds | 1985 – 2004 |
| Zephyr | Grand Central | Sunderland – London King's Cross (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.
See also railwaybritain.co.uk for a description of a number of Boat Trains, some of which are included in the lists above.