More than 60,000 extra seats a week on trains using the East Coast Main Line are promised when a new timetable gets underway.
Departure times will be changing for services across the route as part of what train company LNER describes as “the biggest transformation in more than a decade”.
The new timetable starts this December and will add nearly 10,000 new services per year.
The timetable sees an additional 32 LNER services to and from London King’s Cross each weekday from December, with more services to follow in 2026. Extra services will also be introduced on weekends.
Northallerton will get ten additional trains every weekday, to and from London King’s Cross.
LNER has recruited hundreds of new staff to prepare for the change from drivers to onboard crews and station teams.
The timings of almost all trains calling at York will change.
- There will be additional trains per day to London King’s Cross, Stevenage, Grantham, Birmingham New Street, Sheffield, Doncaster and Newcastle with improved journey times to some destinations.
- Journeys between Edinburgh and York will be up to 10 minutes faster.
Further details about the full December 2025 timetable, including station by station information, can be found here.
David Horne, managing director at LNER, said: “The new timetable will enable us to serve many destinations more frequently and guarantee thousands of extra seats each day where they needed most, providing customers with more choice when it comes to greener and more sustainable journeys.
Rail minister Lord Peter Hendy said: “Through more seats, more trains and faster journeys, this new timetable will see the biggest increase to intercity services along the route in a decade and will unlock growth along the whole of the East Coast Main Line.”