Pines Express

Pines Express relief in 1959 hauled by a 7F 2-8-0 and a West Country 4-6-2

The Pines Express was a named passenger train that ran daily between Manchester and Bournemouth in England between 1910 and 1967.

It ran for the first time under the name Pines Express on 26 September 1927;[1] and is believed to have been named after the pine trees growing in the Chines in the Bournemouth area.[2] When the service first ran, unnamed, on 1 October 1910,[3] it was run jointly by the Midland Railway and LNWR; and was introduced in response to a LSWR/GWR service between Birkenhead and Bournemouth.[4]

InterCity (British Rail) revived the Pines Express name for several years as part of the CrossCountry network.

  1. ^ Popplewell, Lawrence (1973). Bournemouth railway history: An exposure of Victorian engineering fraud. Sherborne: Dorset Publishing Co. p. 170. ISBN 978-0-902129-15-3.
  2. ^ Gilks, John; Mensing, Michael; Edgington, John (1993). "The Pines Express". In: BackTrack, Vol. 7, No. 1, pp. 25-27.
  3. ^ Barrie, D.S.M.; Clinker, C.R. (1948). The Somerset & Dorset Railway. South Godstone, Surrey: Oakwood Press. p. 52. OCLC 12273691.
  4. ^ Allen, Cecil J. (1953). Titled Trains of Great Britain (3rd ed.). London: Ian Allan Ltd. Allen, Cecil J.; Cooper, B. K. (1983). Titled Trains of Great Britain (6th ed.). London: Ian Allan Ltd. ISBN 0-7110-1309-8. OCLC 12277153. , (3rd Edition), pp 164-166.