New Cut-Price Sheffield to London King’s Cross Train Service A Step Closer After Breakthrough
The title of this post, is the same as that of a story on The Star.
This is the sub-heading.
A new cut-price Sheffield to London train service has moved a step closer after a significant breakthrough.
These two paragraphs add detail to the story.
Hull Trains, which is part of FirstGroup, wants to launch a twice-daily return service between Sheffield and London King’s Cross, via Woodhouse, Worksop and Retford.
It says fares would be up to 30 per cent cheaper and the new route would provide more choice for passengers, especially for students and other people on a tighter budget.
I would assume the breakthrough is that the new East Coast Main Line timetable has been agreed.
The article confirms this.
The new East Coast Mainline timetable coming into operation later this year has been confirmed by Network Rail, making it easier to see how the new Sheffield-London trains would fit in around existing services.
Ever since I saw this proposed service, I wondered if by judicious splitting and joining at Retford, the Hull Trains services would effectively be only one ten car train on the East Coast Main Line.
The Anonymous Widower 
Heidi Alexander is pretty well objecting to anymore open access operators that cause abstraction from existing govt supported operators. Legally she can’t stop them yet but clearly they intend to produce new legislation that will protect the taxpayer in future.
Personally Hull Trains do a great job but its farcical that Hull doesn’t get a service delivered by the public operators in the first place.
Comment by Nicholas Lewis | February 19, 2025 |
I have been talking to friends in places like Hull, the Scottish Borders and the Chilterns and they would be livid, if the Government strangled open access, as would I be.
It would probably mean the closure of Hitachi at Newton Aycliffe.
The proposal to scrap open access is madness.
Comment by AnonW | February 19, 2025 |