Connecting the English capital and Perth via Edinburgh Waverley, the first car-sleeper rail services debuted in 1955 and allowed Scots motorists the freedom of taking their car on their holidays while avoiding the gruelling 450-mile drive south.
Services ran twice weekly and soon increased to several times a week in what would prove to be a very popular method of travel.
In 1966, the Motorail brand was formed by British Rail, with the opening of a special new terminal at Kensington Olympia station in West London, where you would have seen old fashioned Morris Minors, Minis and Rolls Royces driving up ramps onto strange-looking trains parked up at the station.
