VIRGIN BEGINS SHREWSBURY AND BLACKPOOL SERVICES

摘要

Direct Virgin Trains services from Shrewsbury and Blackpool resumed from the December timetable change. Virgin, which withdrew its original Shrewsbury service in 1999, is now running two trains a day from the Shropshire county town to Euston and back, formed of a Class 221 'Voyager' The service gives the town direct access to the capital for the first time since the Wrexham & Shropshire open access operation ceased in January 2011. That train took four hours due to a circuitous route caused by exclusivity clauses on existing Virgin services, whereas the new 'Voyager' service will take 2hrs 36min.