The Royal Scotsman

The Belmond Royal Scotsman is a Scottish overnight luxury train, started in 1985 by GS&WR (Great Scottish and Western Railway Co.), and run since 2005 by Belmond Ltd. It makes trips particularly through the Scottish Highlands, but also occasional rides through the entire Great Britain.

The first train was composed of Mark 1 sleeping cars and three vintage dining and lounge carriages. After the inauguration of the current train set in 1989, the vintage coaches have kept on running as the Queen of Scots charter train.

For the second train batch the train's former owner has acquired Pullman cars, which were built in 1960 by Metropolitan Cammell for ECML. This train consisted four sleeping cars, two dining cars, and one observation car.

The train's two dining cars were replaced during the years. Dining Car 1, which used to be the Gresley kitchen car, but damaged in a shunting incident on depot and as a wooden (Teak) bodied vehicle was deemed unsafe to continue passenger operations and was withdrawn from mainline service. It was followed up 1992 by Pullman car Raven, acquired at the same time as the other ones. Dining Car 2 used to be 99131 Ex LNER SC1999 “Victory”. It was replaced in by the Pullman car Swift which was acquired in 2011 and converted by Assenta Ltd in Scotland.

Two former Mark 3 Sleeping cars were added to the train in 1997 as service carriages, replacing two Mk1 coaches (99987 & 99966). One of them has also got Double sleeping cabins.

Belmond acquired another Pullman coach in 2015 from CRRES (West Coast Railway Co Ltd) and again employed Assenta Ltd to undertake outfitting and project management in order to create "State car - SPA". After provisional mechanical and body works at CRRES the coach was shipped to Mivan Marine in Antrim where the coach was outfitted with two Bamford SPA rooms and 2 additional bedrooms (1 PRM Twin and 1 Double) with inter-connection. Upon completion the carriage was taken back to CRRES for final mechanical works and entery onto rolling stock library as 99337. The carriage entered service on 26/9/16.

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