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Aberdonian (passenger train)

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pm. A restaurant car was provided as far as York. At Edinburgh, sections of train were disconnected to form services to Fort William and Mallaig, and Perth and Inverness. The Aberdeen section of the train called at Dundee, Arbroath, Montrose and Stonehaven, arriving in Aberdeen at
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entered a 40 miles per hour (64 km/h) speed restriction at 82 miles per hour (132 km/h). All eleven coaches were derailed.
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was then used on the 10.15 King's Cross to Aberdeen sleeper service. This also crashed at Morpeth, in 1984.
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for its sleeping car express between King's Cross and Aberdeen It was timed to depart King's Cross at 7:40
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pm, and arrived in King's Cross 11 hours 50 minutes later, with journey times shortened by streamlined
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pm with a journey time to Aberdeen of a little over 11 hours, originally being hauled by
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locomotives, but noticeable improvements were only achieved with the introduction of
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am, a journey time of exactly 12 hours. The return journey left Aberdeen at 7:35
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Official report into the 1969 Aberdonian accident at The Railways Archive
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Link to details of the 1957 Aberdonian accident at The Railways Archive
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from the early evening departure from King's Cross, then timed at 7:55
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On 7 May 1969, six people died and 46 were injured in one of the
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Named passenger trains of the London and North Eastern Railway
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ran into the back of a local train one mile south of
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By 1939 the train was departing King's Cross at 7:30
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The wreckage of the Up Aberdonian on 8 January 1957
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LNER
BR
London Kings Cross
Aberdeen
East Coast Main Line
United Kingdom
London and North Eastern Railway
Class C11
P2
A4
Second World War
Peppercorn A1
Deltic locomotives

On 7 January 1957
Welwyn Garden City railway station
accidents at Morpeth
Deltic locomotive
British Rail
Link to details of the 1957 Aberdonian accident at The Railways Archive
Official report into the 1969 Aberdonian accident at The Railways Archive
"Trains' Names"
"3 dead, 26 injured when Aberdonian Express hit local train"
Hoole, Ken
ISBN
0-906899-07-9
"Express Driver's Mind Wandered"
"Big Boost for Sleeper Services"
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