East Coast Main Line
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The East Coast Main Line is a 393-mile-long electrified railway between London King's Cross and Edinburgh Waverley, via Peterborough, Doncaster, York, Darlington, Durham and Newcastle. It is a key tra
An LNER Class 800 Azuma at Burnmouth
A GNR Stirling Single express locomotive of the late 19th century
LNER Class A1 No. 2547 Doncaster hauls the daily Flying Scotsman in 1928.
A Class 55 Deltic locomotive at Edinburgh in 1980; these were the main express locomotives on the ECML in the 1960s and 1970s
West Coast Main Line
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The West Coast Main Line is a significant railway corridor in Great Britain, connecting the major cities of London and Glasgow with branches to Birmingham, Manchester, Liverpool and Edinburgh. It is o
East Coast Main Line
…Mallard set a new world-record speed for a steam locomotive (see § Speed records). The East Coast Main Line was engaged in long running rivalry with the West Coast Main Line (WCML), the other main trunk route between London and Scotland. At various points in the late 19th century, highly publicised but unofficial races…
The West Coast Main Line running alongside the M1 motorway at Watford Gap
The northern WCML as it weaves through the Lune Gorge in Cumbria, alongside the M6
3020 Cornwall, an early LNWR express locomotive (built 1847, as pictured circa 1890)
The Coronation Scot in 1937, hauled by a streamlined Coronation Class locomotive