The Anonymous Widower

Glasgow Queen Street Station To London King’s Cross Station For £52.40

My plan this morning, was to come home via Hartlepool, so that I could take pictures of the nuclear power station there.

I intended to take a train from Glasgow Queen Street station to Newcastle and then take local train to Hartlepool and back to Newcastle, from where I’d buy a ticket and take a train to London King’s Cross.

Things went well until I left Edinburgh on my train for Newcastle.

• I’d bought a ticket from Glasgow Queen Street station to Newcastle for £21.20 with a change to LNER at Edinburgh.
• I even had a reserved seat after Edinburgh.
• I found a good unreserved seat on the 13:00 Glasgow Queen Street to Edinburgh train, which left on time.
• It arrived in Edinburgh a minute late.
• As Marks & Spencer was by the platform of my Newcastle train, I was able to buy a lunch before I got on the train.

It was then that I noticed that my train took over three hours to travel to Newcastle, when I know they normally take under ninety minutes.

As the train left Edinburgh, it passed through Haymarket station, which confirmed we were going for a Grand Tour of the Southern Uplands of Scotland.

Note.

1. The train took the fully-electrified line from Haymarket to Carstairs junction, where it joined the West Coast Main Line.
2. I amused myself by taking pictires of the large number of wind turbines along the route and motorways and arterial roads, that share the route.
3. It is certainly a route where the hills are alive with spinning wind turbines.

Eventually we arrived in Carlisle, where I took more pictures.

Note.

1. The train waited at Carlisle for about 10 minutes.
2. It looks like Northern Trains might have been running a pair of Class 158 trains on the Settle and Carlisle Line to add capacity. Real Time Trains confirm that they were.
3. The last picture has an LNER train going North in the background.
4. Some passengers joined the train at Carlisle.

By the time we left Carlisle, we taken an hour and twenty-eight minutes from Edinburgh.

Our train, then took the Tyne Valley Line to Newcastle, where I took these pictures.

Note.

1. It’s not called the Tyne Valley Line for nothing.
2. I didn’t see a wind farm between Carlisle and Newcastle.
3. By the time we arrived in Newcastle, we taken a minute over three hours from Edinburgh.
4. The Tyne Valley Line can handle a pair of Class 800 trains.

I decided that I didn’t have enough time to go to Hartlepool.

 

October 3, 2026 - Posted by AnonW | Energy, Transport/Travel | Edinburgh Station, Glasgow Queen Street Station, Hartlepool, Hartlepool Nuclear Power Station, LNER, Newcastle Station, Northern Trains, Railcard, Real Time Trains, Scotland, Ticketing, Tyne Valley Line, West Coast Main Line, Wind Power