The ''Northern Lights'' is a named British passenger train operated by

London North Eastern Railway London North Eastern Railway (LNER) is a British train operating company. It is owned by the DfT OLR Holdings for the Department for Transport (DfT). The company's name echoes that of the London and North Eastern Railway, one of the Big Four ...

. It runs daily in each direction between

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and

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via the

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and Edinburgh to Aberdeen Line. The northbound service departs London King's Cross at 10:00am, and the southbound service departs Aberdeen at 09:52am. The route is one of the longest in Britain at and the train takes just over seven hours to cover the journey. London North Eastern Railway operates another two services in each direction between London and Aberdeen as well as one each day to and from

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Operation

Presently both of the services are operated by a Class 800 ''Azuma''. This is a bi-modal train due to the line being diesel only beyond

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, with the train being on electric power to and from the latter. Until December 2019, the Northern Lights service was operated by an InterCity 125 HST for a number of years until the whole fleet of HSTs were replaced by the ''Azuma'' fleet.

References

{{Reflist East Coast Main Line Named passenger trains of the United Kingdom