Elizabethan Express

Elizabethan Express is a 1954 British Transport Film that follows The Elizabethan, a non-stop British Railways service from London King's Cross to Edinburgh Waverley along the East Coast Main Line. Although originally intended as an advertising short, it now acts as a nostalgic record of the halcyon years of steam on British Railways and the ex LNER Class A4.

It was directed by Tony Thompson, with a tongue-in-cheek poetic commentary written by Paul Le Saux.[1] It is also notable for its music by Clifton Parker, who also wrote the score for Blue Pullman and several other British Transport Films.[1] He was later to write the music for the 1959 version of The Thirty-Nine Steps, which also features an A4.