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The Liverpool Pullman was a British Pullman train operated by the London Midland Region of British Railways. It ran daily from to and return, calling only at and . It was introduced in 1966 upon the electrification of the West Coast Main Line. The ''Liverpool Pullman'' made the end-to-end London-Liverpool journey in a record 2 hours 35 minutes. This was achieved partly by not calling at , contrary to standard practice at the time, and partly by being of relatively low weight, having only eight coaches in total. Unlike many British Pullman services (including its sister train of the same era, the Manchester Pullman), it was not all-Pullman but also conveyed second-class coaches. Its typical formation was four 2nd-class coaches and four first-class Pullman coaches, hauled by a Class 86 electric locomotive. In 1968 the down (northbound) ''Liverpool Pullman'' was scheduled to cover the 163 miles from Watford Junction to Runcorn in 119 minutes, for an average speed of 82.3 mph, then the fastest-ever start-to-stop regular timing in Britain. The ''Liverpool Pullman'' was not as successful as its Manchester counterpart, and in the 1970s it was downgraded to an ordinary unnamed train at a time when the Pullman concept had gone out of fashion. ==See also== * List of named passenger trains of the United Kingdom 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Liverpool Pullman」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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