390154 'Matthew Flinders' forms the 10.38 Liverpool Lime Street to Euston working past Bradwell just north of Milton Keynes station. Matthew Flinders was a leading cartographer and explorer who, by circumnavigating Australia in 1801, declared it to be a continent. The Pendolino was named at Euston, very aptly as it is thought that Flinders' remains are under platform 15 as this land previously belonged to St. James' Church on Hampstead Road.
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