Race to the North
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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The Race to the North is the name given to two summers in the late 19th century when British passenger trains belonging to different companies would literally race each other from London to Scotland over the two principal rail trunk routes connecting the English capital city to Scotland - the West Coast Main Line which runs from London Euston via Crewe and Carlisle and the East Coast Main Line route from London King''s Cross via York and Newcastle. The first Race to t...
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The Race to the North is the name given to two summers in the late 19th century when British passenger trains belonging to different companies would literally race each other from London to Scotland over the two principal rail trunk routes connecting the English capital city to Scotland - the West Coast Main Line which runs from London Euston via Crewe and Carlisle and the East Coast Main Line route from London King''s Cross via York and Newcastle. The first Race to the North was between day trains from London to Edinburgh in 1888, and the second was between night trains from London to Aberdeen in 1895. The actual ''finishing post'' of the latter race was Kinnaber Junction, 38 miles (61 km) south of Aberdeen, where the Caledonian Railway and the North British Railway routes joined- the last section being run on Caledonian-owned track. On the approach to Kinnaber Junction the two routes ran on either side of the Montrose Basin, with trains often racing for the junction within sight of each other - a spectacle widely reported by the journalists who rode on the trains during the height of the races.
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