Torbay Express

[2] In addition to the Torbay Express, in the summer of 1929 the GWR introduced an all-Pullman train leaving Paddington at 11:00 and arriving at Paignton at 12:25.

[2] The Torbay Express name is also used by Great Western Railway (train operating company) for its 10:35 service from London Paddington to Paignton (via Castle Cary), and the 13:55 return (via Castle Cary and the Reading to Taunton Line).

From 2003, Past-Time Rail revived the Torbay Express as a passenger charter steam locomotive service, to run on certain summer Sundays and some Saturdays, from: Bristol Temple Meads via stops at Weston-Super-Mare and Taunton; to Paignton and onwards via the Dartmouth Steam Railway to Kingswear.

The back-up diesel locomotive is supplied and operated by DB Schenker Rail (UK), sourced from a varying number of spot-hire companies, mainly West Coast Railways.

During the operating season, the coaching stock is stabled in a spare covered road under the engine shed of Bristol Temple Meads, whilst the steam locomotive is stabled at a temporary operating base at Bristol Barton Hill MPD.

Ex-GWR 'Castle' 4-6-0 No. 5079 Lysander heads the down Torbay Express out of Parson's Tunnel at Dawlish
The Torbay Express in 1960
BR Standard Class 8 Locomotive 71000 Duke Of Gloucester arrives at Kingswear railway station in August 2011 as the Torbay Express .
Great Western Railway Class 802 IET with a westbound Torbay Express at Torquay in June 2021
Ex-GWR 'King' 4-6-0 No.6024 King Edward I heads the revived Torbay Express charter at Sprey Point, Devon , July 2006