{"id":319389,"date":"2025-12-16T17:00:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T17:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/319389\/"},"modified":"2025-12-16T17:00:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T17:00:07","slug":"rail-link-between-london-and-edinburgh-extended-to-glasgow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/319389\/","title":{"rendered":"Rail link between London and Edinburgh extended to Glasgow"},"content":{"rendered":"

He added: “This offers a sustainable travel option whilst also boosting economic growth.<\/p>\n

“We’re proud to champion Scotland and look forward to providing the unique Lumo service to even more customers from this week.”<\/p>\n

The service leaves Queen Street and includes stops at Falkirk High, Edinburgh Haymarket, Edinburgh Waverley, Morpeth, Newcastle and Stevenage before reaching London King’s Cross.<\/p>\n

Scotland nationalised its rail services in April 2022, while nearly all in England are to be taken into public ownership by 2027.<\/p>\n

However, Lumo runs on an “open access basis,”<\/a> meaning it sets its own fares and receives no taxpayer-funded subsidies.<\/p>\n

Paul Tetlaw from sustainable transport group Transform Scotland, said he hoped the new services would convince some travellers to choose rail over flying to London.<\/p>\n

He added: “There is a significant market of people who currently drive or fly to the north east of England and London who now have the opportunity to switch to the train.<\/p>\n

“The new services soon to be launched from Stirling will help to build on that modal shift to rail.”<\/p>\n

He said he hoped the new connection would help ferry people to Glasgow for the 2026 Commonwealth Games<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"He added: “This offers a sustainable travel option whilst also boosting economic growth. “We’re proud to champion Scotland…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":319390,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-319389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=319389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319389\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/319390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=319389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=319389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=319389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}