As at September 2016, the " Cornish Riviera " name is carried on the 10 : 06 from London Paddington and 08 : 44 departure from Penzance.
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Other publicity featuring the " Cornish Riviera Express " were a jigsaw and a lantern-slide lecture which could be hired for shows to interested groups around the country.
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When the company celebrated its centenary during 1935, new " Centenary " carriages were built for the Cornish Riviera Express, which again made full use of the wider loading gauge on that route.
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They were engines to be reckoned with, powering the GWR's crack expresses like the Cornish Riviera Limited up until the end of regular steam hauled express services on the Western Region of British Railways.
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In 1935 excursion stock with open saloons instead of compartments was introduced, followed by the 26 " Super-Saloon "-scale "'Centenary "'stock for the Cornish Riviera Express.
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By summer 1941 it seemed that everyone was taking their ( brief ) summer holidays in the West Country, and the " Cornish Riviera " ran west cve sections, to Penzance, Penzance, Kingswear and Newton Abbot respectively.
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From July 1904 non-stop expresses ran from London to Plymouth and back; at first lightly loaded they were referred to as " The Limited ", although they were later branded " The Cornish Riviera Express ".
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For the LNER " Victor Wild " was compared on the Cornish Riviera Express to 4074 " Caldicot Castle " and although it kept to time the longer wheelbase of the pacific proved unsuited to the many curves on the Route.
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The 13 : 50 from Maiden Newton had a connection from Paddington at 10 : 30, by a " slip carriage " on the Cornish Riviera Limited, slipped at Westbury, then running on to Weymouth, and making the connection at Maiden Newton.
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Through performance and publicity the " Cornish Riviera Express " has become one of the most famous named trains in the United Kingdom and is particularly renowned for the publicity employed by the Great Western Railway in the 1930s which elevated it to iconic status.
