The name was inherited by the London Midland Region of British Railways and re-instated for the winter timetable in 1949.

[4] In 1953 a modest time improvement was introduced to save 15 minutes on the schedule with the train leaving London Euston at 1.30pm and arriving at Glasgow at 9.35pm.

[5] Four coaches of the Mid-Day Scot derailed at Uddingston railway station, nine miles south of Glasgow on 17 June 1957.

[6] In the timetable for winter 1959–60, the Mid-day Scot became non-stop between Carlisle and London, having in earlier years called at Rugby.

[7] See Coppenhall Junction rail crash (1962) On Boxing Day, 1962, the Mid-Day Scot hauled by English Electric type 4 diesel D346, with 13 coaches and 500 passengers, ran into a Liverpool to Birmingham service hauled by an electric locomotive with eight coaches with 300 passengers, near Crewe.