Named Trains

[50C]

While waiting on Selby station for our 8.30AM school train to Drax Hales(two car DMU by 1959) on the Selby to Goole branch a 2 car DMU express passed through non stop on its way towards Doncaster.I am pretty certain that it had a headboard THE TEES THAMES LINK.I think it only ran for one year in the period 1959/60/61? Can anyone enlighten me on this working-what year it started/when it finnished/where it started from and where it terminated?

Thank you

50C

[lincolnian]

There's no mention of it in my newly acquired 'Titled Trains of Great Britain' - it occurred to me it might have met up with the Tees-Tyne Pullman but that didn't stop at Doncaster, in fact it didn't stop at York until the 60's when Deltics took over.
Paul M.

[stembok]

The Tees -Thames Link was a DMU put on C1958-59 to cater for the needs of Teesside (Middlesbrough)businessmen for an earlier London arrrival. It ran to Doncaster where it connected with an express, possibly from the West Riding for London. In the autumn of 1959 however (November) Teeside got its own London service -The Tees-Thames express -from Saltburn to King's Cross and return .It left Saltburn at 07.05 and returned from King's Cross at 2.00pm. It ran until September 1961 when it was discontinued, the reason given as lack of patronage. It's hard to believe now, but in the late 1950s the first up day train from Darlington to London did not arrive until 1.05 pm. From September 1961 the Deltics reduced this to 12.05pm,probably a major reason for the discontinuation of the Tees-Thames.