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Atlantic Coast Express
The Atlantic Coast Express (ACE) was an express passenger train in England between Waterloo station, London and seaside resorts in the south-west of England. It ran between 1926 and 1964: at its peak it included coaches for nine separate destinations. In 2008 it was reintroduced by First Great Western, running on summer Saturdays between Paddington station, London, and Newquay.
==The origins==
After completion of the lines to Bude in 1898 and Padstow in 1899, the London and South Western Railway (L&SWR) introduced the first 'North Cornwall Express' in 1900 leaving London Waterloo station at 11:10 am, and this continued over the next decade as the 'North Cornwall and Bude Express' with the departure time adjusted to 11:00 running during the summer only. By 1914 this train was running throughout the year, and outside the summer season carried through coaches to Padstow, Bude, Plymouth and Ilfracombe,〔 a presage of things to come. However the First World War inevitably reduced both the scope for holidays and stretched the railways resources, and after this the L&SWR did not pursue a policy of having a premier named train on the route.
This was set to change as a result of the 1923 Railway Grouping Act which created four new companies to run Britain's railways, and the former London and South Western Railway became part of the new Southern Railway (SR). The Great Western Railway (GWR), as the main competitor for services to Devon and Cornwall, had been left virtually unchanged by the railway company mergers, and the directors of the new Southern Railway recognised that some initiative was needed to publicise their services to the South West, and in addition show they were ready to compete with "the old enemy" once more; the GWR had coined the phrase 'Cornish Riviera' and had been using this in its publicity for 20 years. John Elliot, Public Relations Assistant to the Southern Railway, proposed to the board in December 1924 that the next batch of express passenger locomotives be named after characters from Arthurian legend, and that a named train be introduced. The name was chosen as the result of a competition run in the staff magazine and the winning entry was submitted by Mr F. Rowland, a guard from Woking who won a prize of three guineas for suggesting "Atlantic Coast Express". He was soon to move to Great Torrington in North Devon; he was killed in a shunting accident there six years later.〔
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