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gave the name to its morning services departing from London St Pancras and Glasgow St Enoch. After the service was speeded up in 1932, trains departed Glasgow at 09:30 and London at 10:00. There was a similar service running between London St Pancras and
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at 13.19 and Leeds City at 14.25 - so this latter stage of 39 miles took over an hour as a result of subsidence-induced speed restrictions. From there, the train ran non-stop to Carlisle (arrival 16.38). Three more stops were made at
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In 1962, the Thames–Clyde took eight hours and 50 minutes for the complete journey, leaving London at 10.15, and then calling first at Leicester London Road at 11.52. Further stops were made at Trent and Chesterfield, before reaching
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into Glasgow St Enoch, the city's G&SWR terminus. The train could not compete for London-to-Scotland traffic with the faster trains travelling on the
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on the West Coast route stopped only twice and took seven hours, twenty minutes. However, the Thames–Clyde provided a useful service from the
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As a result, few travellers after the 1920s travelled the full length of the route. The Thames–Clyde lost its title at the outbreak of
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route, still on former Midland Railway territory. Crossing into Scotland, the train used the former
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ceased to run during the winter, and so additional coaches for Edinburgh were carried on the
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The effect of regional division, mining subsidence along part of the route between
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The Thames-Clyde Express on 24 July 1951 at Royston and Notton station.
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to Glasgow, but the service continued to run until 1976.
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which was known as the Thames–Forth Express, renamed
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was a named express passenger train operating on the
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Index

Thames-Clyde Express

LMS
BR
London St Pancras
Glasgow St Enoch
Glasgow Central
Midland Main Line
Midland Main Line
Settle-Carlisle Railway
Glasgow South Western Line
London St Pancras
Glasgow St Enoch
Glasgow Central
London Midland & Scottish Railway
Edinburgh Waverley
The Waverley
British Railways
Legend
Glasgow Central
Glasgow St Enoch
Kilmarnock
Kirkconnel
Glasgow South Western Line
Dumfries
Annan
Carlisle Citadel
Appleby
Settle and Carlisle Railway
Settle

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