Great North Eastern Railway (GNER) was a British train operating company, owned by Sea Containers Ltd. It operated high-speed express train services on the East Coast Main Line from 1996 until 9 December 2007 when the franchise was taken over by National Express East Coast. GNER's primary service routes were from London King's Cross to Edinburgh Waverley and Leeds. From Edinburgh Waverley, selected services continued on to Motherwell & Glasgow, Inverness, or Dundee & Aberdeen. From Leeds, some trains ran to and from Bradford, Skipton, and Harrogate.