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    The end of East Coast PULLMANS

    Jun 11, 2018 4 minutes
    Paul Haywood
    RM Archive/Brian Stephenson
    RM Archive/JS Whiteley

    THE May 1978 timetable change was a particularly significant one on the East Coast Main Line as, in addition to the introduction of HST-operated services running at 125mph, it saw the demise of the ‘Hull Pullman’ and ‘Yorkshire Pullman’. These trains were the last regular timetabled services to be formed with the Metro-Cammell Pullman cars, the ‘Tees-Tyne Pullman’ having been withdrawn two years earlier in 1976.

    The Metro-Cammell vehicles had been introduced in 1961, operating on the aforementioned Yorkshire and Tees-Tyne services as well as the Edinburgh-King’s Cross ‘Queen of Scots’, which was discontinued

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