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Lumo Trains (West Coast) to Stirling via Carlisle-Services due to start 18 May

Posted by (Lake District, England ) on

Lumo Trains (West Coast) are now due to start services on 18 May.

Note that the company has split into Lumo (East Coast) and Lumo (West Coast).

The tickets are not yet on sale, but the trains are in the new May timetable. A different route to the Highlands of Scotland.

From Stirling services will call at Larbert, Greenfaulds, Whifflet, Motherwell, Lockerbie, Carlisle, Preston, Milton Keynes Central and London Euston

On weekdays services are ex Stirling at 0605, 0850, 1222 and 1709, ex Euston at 0611, 1019, 1319 and 1636.

Sundays southbound at 1006, 1320 and 1634 and northbound at 0822, 1418 and 1718.

There will also be a daily service to Blackpool North, calling at Milton Keynes Central, Nuneaton, Crewe, Preston, Kirkham and Wesham and Poulton-le-Fylde-
Weekdays ex Blackpool at 0612, and ex Euston at 1919

On Sundays, the southbound starts at Preston at 1040, and the northbound is at 1935 from Euston.

Posted by
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East Midland Trains Class 222 Meridians- to be re-formed as 6 car sets, removing the buffet and first class, replacing with all standard class seating. At least one to my knowledge has been driver training up and down the route since before Christmas.

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that's a shame. they were good when Midland Main Line had them with the M's Bar.

Not terrifically spiffing in accessibility either, really narrow aisle.

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The first trains ran on 25 May- currently only the 0850 (1006 Sundays) southbound and 1636 (1718 Sundays) northbound are running.

The 0850 southbound (not the northbound) is additionally calling at Nuneaton.

Unfortunately the northbound trains on each of the first two days have been heavily delayed by different major infrastructure issues (as have Avanti services). Today the issue has been a major signalling issue at Crewe which has affected all operators operating through Crewe Station with many local services in the Crewe Area having to be replaced with buses.

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The quality of the interior is worth careful scrutiny. The website features a fully refurbished (blue seats) and reliveried (blue) set, and 222601 was indeed in this state on the one round trip per day on Monday and Tuesday. BUT images have also been released with EMR first class seats being replaced by standard class seats in EMRish grey but not quite the same as the rest of standard class. Which begs the question, if they intend to crack on and fully refurbish enough sets to cope with the build up in service why bother to mess around with these seats? I fear proper refurbishment will only cover enough for the publicty purposes and the rest won't get it.

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