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3 unusual facts about Cross Country services


Cross Country services

The service was maintained by adding or removing the through coaches from trains already running on the routes: one coach of North British Railway stock, was added to an Aberdeen-London express, and was detached from it at York, where the train was made up with the addition of more coaches and sleeping cars to complete the journey.

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South West - Birmingham - the North West (CrossCountry): Penzance — Birmingham — Glasgow direct (ceased after the change of CrossCountry franchise in 2007)

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Penzance and for main summer holiday days other resorts of Cornwall — Birmingham — Sheffield — Leeds — Newcastle upon Tyne — Edinburgh — Aberdeen.



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