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    The Cornish Riviera Express is a British express passenger train that has run between London Paddington and Penzance in Cornwall since 1904. Introduced...
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  • passengers between Calais and the French Riviera during the interwar period. It was colloquially referred to as Le Train Bleu in French (which became its formal...
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    The Night Riviera is a sleeper train operated by Great Western Railway (GWR). It is one of only two sleeper services on the railway in the United Kingdom...
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  • Riviera Trains Limited is a railway spot-hire company based at Burton-on-Trent and Eastleigh in England. Riviera Trains was founded in 1995, initially...
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    TransPennine Trains Limited, trading as TransPennine Express (TPE), is a British train operating company that has operated passenger services in the TransPennine...
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  • CAPITALS UNITED EXPRESS, CHELTENHAM FLYER, COMET*, CONDOR (a named freight train, derived from CONtainer DOoR-to-Door), CORNISH RIVIERA EXPRESS, CORNISHMAN*...
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    Railway also operates the Heathrow Express service. The company began operating in February 1996 as Great Western Trains, as part of the privatisation of...
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    actor and comedian Leslie Henson, Thatcher was a passenger on a Riviera Express train that derailed four miles outside of Lyon, killing three. She was...
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    Inter-city rail services are express trains that run services that connect cities over longer distances than commuter or regional trains. They include rail services...
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    The Torbay Express is a named passenger train operating in the United Kingdom. The Torbay Express departs from Bristol Temple Meads railway station on...
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  • in Seoul, a train collided with a tanker truck carrying flammable liquid, killing 20 people. July 23 – Switzerland – A Riviera Express train derailed at...
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    C2c (redirect from National Express c2c)
    British train operating company owned by Trenitalia that operates the Essex Thameside railway contract. It manages 25 stations and its trains call at...
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    direction. In July 1904, the GWR introduced a new express train to replace The Cornishman: the Cornish Riviera Limited, running non-stop from Paddington to...
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  •  › Belmond Ltd. (formerly Orient-Express Hotels Ltd) is a hospitality and leisure company that operates hotels, train services and river cruises and safaris...
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    Switzerland GoldenPass Express Glacier Express Gotthard Panorama Express Bishop, Caroline (7 December 2022). "Switzerland's brilliant new train route: direct from...
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  • automobiles race against the Le Train Bleu, a train that ran between Calais and the French Riviera. The rationale to beat the train was to compare the contemporary...
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  • also refer to: Côte d'Azur Observatory Côte d'Azur Pullman Express, a French de luxe train which ran from 9 December 1929 until May 1939 Nice Côte d'Azur...
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    discs/lamps to the former express passenger code. Roller blinds were later blanked or plated over to show two dots and new trains introduced for service...
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    of Agatha Christie.[citation needed] Poirot boards Le Train Bleu, bound for the French Riviera. So does Katherine Grey, who is having her first winter...
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    Wessex Trains was a train operating company in the United Kingdom owned by National Express that operated the Wessex Trains franchise from October 2001...
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  • railway system of Great Britain, a train operating company (TOC) is a railway undertaking operating passenger trains under the collective National Rail...
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    winning entries, The Cornish Riviera Limited and The Riviera Express, which the GWR combined as The Cornish Riviera Express, but the names of the winners...
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    National Express East Anglia (NXEA) was a train operating company in England owned by National Express that operated the Greater Anglia franchise from...
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    Welsh & Scottish (EWS), Class 47s from Riviera Trains, and Class 57s from Virgin Trains to haul Riviera Trains' Mark 2 carriages on shuttles from Sunderland...
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    Zentralbahn's Luzern-Interlaken Express to Lucerne is available. The idea of one railway line connecting the Riviera with the lakes of Thun and Brienz...
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    Heathrow Express is a high-frequency airport rail link operating between London Heathrow Airport and London Paddington. Opened in 1998, trains run non-stop...
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    The Atlantic Coast Express (ACE) is an express passenger train in England that has operated at various times between London and seaside resorts in the...
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    Thameslink Railway train operating company on the Gatwick Express route of the Thameslink, Southern and Great Northern franchise. Trains have regularly served...
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    Ticino was an express train that linked Milan in Italy, with Zürich, Switzerland and for some years even to Munich, Germany. The train was named after...
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    Central Trains was a train operating company in the United Kingdom owned by National Express that operated a variety of local and inter-regional trains from...
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