East Coast Overnights in the 70's n 80's

[The Big Boo]

Top quality laff they were:

1S60
1S66
1A40
1A41
1E35
1L00

 

[flymo]

Not sure about headcodes but in '74/'75 there was a fair selection of destinations overnight from KX. Just to take weekdays for example

Down
0100 Sleeper only - Edinburgh 0610
0115 Sleepers & seats - Newcastle 0902 via Leeds & Durham Coast
2000 Sleeper & seats - Fort William 1014 & Aberdeen 0651 also Edinburgh 0323 & Glasgow QS 0526
2015 Seats only - Edinburgh 0438
2215 Sleeper only - Aberdeen 0842 (Night Aberdonian)
2230 Seats only - Edinburgh 0618
2250 Seats only - Halifax 0313
2335 Sleepers only - Edinburgh 0642 (Night Scotsman)
2350 Sleepers & seats - Aberdeen 1035 (Night Capitals)
2355 seats only - Newcastle 0546 (Loads of stops!)

Up
0115 Seats only Newcastle - KX 0628
2025 Seats only Newcastle - KX 0305
2020 Seats only Edinburgh - KX 0511
2230 Sleepers only Edinburgh - KX 0555 (Night Capitals)
2220 Sleepers & seats Newcastle - KX 0612 ( via Durham Coast & Leeds)
1920 Seats only Aberdeen - KX 0628
2315 Sleepers only Edinburgh - KX 0639 (Night Scotsman)
2015 Sleepers & seats Aberdeen & 1615 Fort William - KX 0651
2115 Sleepers only Aberdeen - KX 0707 (Night Aberdonian)

 

[exile]

I used these services to travel from London to Edinburgh for a rugby international in 1981.

 

[d9009alycidon]

I was on one service from York 17/10/1976 (it was my 19th Birthday). My mate had moved to York and I went down to see him, went on a pub crawl round York then down to the station for the train (Deltic Hauled) which left at 23:55 and as I was reliably told, if your return train left before midnight you were OK for a day return. Crashed out on the train and woke later to see Electrifiction masts flashing by in the dark, we had been diverted via Carlisle so it was up to the window to listen to sweet sound of the Napier engines throbbing up Beattock, bonus was a trip round the Edinburgh Sub so that it was the right way round for the onward trip to Aberdeen.
This trip could be a contender for the "most diversions" as on top of the route already taken, the subsequent Edinburgh to Glasgow service (Push-Pull class 27s) was then diverted via Dalmeny (flooding at Winchburgh) then Falkirk Grahamston-Cumbernauld-Coatbridge-Rutherglen-Glasgow Central. The bummer was that I was heading home to Airdrie and a stop at Coatbridge Central would have been perfect, however we trundled straight through the station.

Jim