Virgin Trains East Coast InterCity 125 at Haymarket
Overview
Service type
Passenger train
Predecessor
The Clansman
First service
May 1984
Current operator(s)
London North Eastern Railway
Former operator(s)
Virgin Trains East Coast East Coast National Express East Coast GNER InterCity East Coast
Route
Termini
London King's Cross Inverness
Distance travelled
581 miles
Average journey time
8 hours
Service frequency
Daily
Train number(s)
1W16 (northbound) 1E13 (southbound)
Line(s) used
East Coast Highland
Technical
Rolling stock
Class 800 Azuma
Operating speed
125 mph
Highland Chieftain
route map
Legend
Inverness
Aviemore
Kingussie
Pitlochry
Perth
Gleneagles
Stirling
Falkirk Grahamston
Haymarket
Edinburgh Waverley
Scotland / England
Berwick-upon-Tweed
Newcastle
Darlington
York
London King's Cross
The Highland Chieftain is a named British passenger train operated by London North Eastern Railway. It operates daily in each direction between London King's Cross and Inverness via the East Coast and Highland Main Line. It is one of the longest train journeys in the United Kingdom at 581 miles with a journey time of eight hours.
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The HighlandChieftain is a named British passenger train operated by London North Eastern Railway. It operates daily in each direction between London...
they can be seen wearing a maud in portraits, etchings and statues. Highlandchieftain Lord Mungo Murray wearing belted plaid, around 1680. A woman wearing...
Kirkcaldy). The London North Eastern Railway service is entitled the HighlandChieftain; it departs Inverness at 08:00 and runs to London King's Cross via...
this was replaced in 1984 by the HighlandChieftain with a schedule of about 8+3⁄4 hours. Currently[update], the Highland Railway's main lines out of Inverness...
six times a week, and by the London North Eastern Railway-operated HighlandChieftain to London King's Cross, which runs daily. Inverness Airport station...
France and Finland. Highland cattle were first imported into Australia by the mid-nineteenth century by Scottish migrants such as Chieftain Aeneas Ronaldson...
sense, synonymous with gillie, the faithful personal follower of a Highlandchieftain, the man who stands at his master's haunch, ready for any emergency...
and Daulat Scindia. Donald Cameron of Lochiel 1700–1748 Scottish Highlandchieftain involved in the Jacobite rising of 1745. Baron Munchausen 1720–1797...
items of Highland dress including kilts (although an exception was made for the Highland regiments) with the intent of suppressing Highland culture. The...
page 12. Butcher, Shannon (27 January 2020). "Whisky Nine Six: LNER's Highland Lifeline". The Railway Magazine. Archived from the original on 11 April...
between two men on opposite sides of the rising: Ewen Cameron, a Highlandchieftain and Jacobite, and Keith Windham, an Englishman and an officer in the...
tuning," said composer Graham Waterhouse about his work Chieftain's Salute Op. 34a for Great Highland Bagpipe and String Orchestra (2001). "A satisfactory...
evil creatures, Lord, deliver us. Magnus Magnusson states that some Highlandchieftains retained substantial private armies of professional soldiers, known...
November 2019. Retrieved 5 February 2020. "Azuma trains arrive on HighlandChieftain route". Rail Technology Magazine. Archived from the original on 5...
embarrassing or upsetting. In Sir Walter Scott's novel Waverley, the highlandChieftain Fergus Mac-Ivor sings a verse of "Lillibulero" during a dinner before...
Cameron, Australian politician Ewen Cameron of Lochiel, a Scottish highlandchieftain Ewen Cameron, Baron Cameron of Dillington, member of the British House...
the Cumbernauld Line. Train services are provided by ScotRail. The "HighlandChieftain", the daily London North Eastern Railway service from London King's...
Clansman, a train service between London and the Highlands, replaced by HighlandChieftain Clansman 30, the 30-ft Clansman class of yacht MV Clansman, a ferry...
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