From 1929 coaches had windows flush with the body panels, the first such sets being for the Cornish Riviera Express but general service coaches followed the following year, including the infamous " B Sets ", two-coach trains mainly used on branch lines.
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The " Kings " were unable to serve Cornwall, due to the Royal Albert Bridge being too weak for their weight, and so when they were hauling the Cornish Riviera Limited, they had to be swapped for a'Castle'or'Hall'at Devonport.
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Introduced by the Great Western Railway, the name " Cornish Riviera Express " has been applied to the late morning express train from London to Penzance continuously through nationalisation under British Rail and privatisation under First Great Western, only ceasing briefly during the two World Wars.
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Among the 1, 286 entries were two suggestions, " The Cornish Riviera Limited " and " The Riviera Express ", which were combined as " The Cornish Riviera Express ", although railwaymen tended to call it " The Limited ".
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Among the 1, 286 entries were two suggestions, " The Cornish Riviera Limited " and " The Riviera Express ", which were combined as " The Cornish Riviera Express ", although railwaymen tended to call it " The Limited ".
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When the West of England expresses started using the 1933 avoiding line at Westbury, the Weymouth slip portion of the down " Cornish Riviera Express " was slipped before reaching Heywood Road Junction; the station pilot then ran out to couple to it and bring it in to the station.
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These included " Holiday Haunts ", describing the attraction of the different parts of the GWR system, and regional titles such as S . P . B . Mais's " Cornish Riviera " and A . M . Bradley's " South Wales : The Country of Castles ".
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In the Great Western Railway's " The Cornish Riviera " travel guide, SPB Mais regarded it as " an almost magic means of transporting travellers from a county, which, if richer than others, is yet unmistakingly an English county, to a Duchy which is in every respect un-English.
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In July 1904 the GWR started running fast trains to Plymouth, running non-stop from Paddington to Plymouth, but this was via the Bristol Relief Line The best trains were strictly limited to seven vehicles, and became known as " The Limited ", although later named " The Cornish Riviera Express ".
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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.
