Flagship £1.2bn upgrade to East Coast rail service delayed until 2023
by Gwyn Topham from on (#5NP0S)
Plan to deliver faster services and extra seats by May 2022 hits problems, including cracked trains
Faster trains and extra seats that had been promised for the London-Edinburgh East Coast line in a flagship 1.2bn upgrade will be delayed for at least a year.
About 40 more train services and 20,000 extra seats a day were due to be added next May after the biggest engineering programme on the existing railway, which has closed King's Cross and parts of the mainline at weekends over the last few years.
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