Alliance plans London-Edinburgh open-access service

摘要

A Lliance Rail Holdings has announced plans to invest up to £300m to introduce an hourly-interval open-access service - operated by its Great North Eastern Railway subsidiary - between London King's Cross and Edinburgh on Britain's East Coast Main Line (ECML) using a fleet of Pendolino trains acquired from Alstom. Alliance says it will start consultation immediately with Network Rail and the other ECML train operators. Their comments together with Alliance's responses will then form part of its submission for paths to the Office of Rail Regulation at the end of January. If Alliance is granted paths in time the new service could start in December 2016.