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Virgin Trains launches additional services between Leeds and London
With just eleven weeks to go until Christmas, Virgin Trains has confirmed that it will launch additional services on its popular route between Leeds and London King’s Cross.
Customers in Leeds will see an additional 09:40 departure on Saturday’s starting this weekend (17 October). The new service will also call at Wakefield Westgate and arrives at London King’s Cross at 11:51. The return service will depart London at 19:04 and arrive in Leeds at 21:21, allowing customers to experience a full day in London.
Virgin Trains has also just released tickets for travel during the festive period, meaning that customers travelling on the East Coast route can book their tickets for travel up to 3 January 2015 across its whole network, and for most weekdays until Wednesday 23 March 2016 on key routes between London York, Newcastle, Edinburgh and Leeds.
Alison Watson, Customer Experience Director at Virgin Trains, said: “We’re delighted to launch tickets for travel during the busy festive period along with the additional services between Leeds and London. These services will be great for leisure travellers and those families wishing to head to London in the run-up to Christmas.”
To make travel even more affordable, customers travelling in a group of 3 to 9 people can receive a group booking discount, by saving 20% off the Advance tickets when they booking via the Virgin Trains East Coast website: virgintrainseastcoast.com
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Contact the Virgin Trains East Coast Press Office: 0116 366 3988 during office hours (09.00 - 17.30 Mon-Fri). Outside these times, and for urgent media enquiries only, please call 08700 005151 and ask for the duty Virgin Trains East Coast press officer to be paged.
Virgin Trains East Coast is the brand name of InterCity Railways Ltd (ICR), which is owned by Stagecoach Group (90%) and Virgin Group (10%). Virgin Trains East Coast began operating services on the East Coast Main Line on Sunday 1 March 2015, serving key UK cities including London, Peterborough, Doncaster, Leeds, York, Newcastle, Edinburgh, Aberdeen and Inverness. In November 2014 the Department for Transport awarded ICR a new franchise until at least 31 March 2023.
Virgin Trains East Coast is committed to delivering a high speed, high quality service with new services, faster and more frequent journeys, more comfortable travel and excellent customer service. More than £140m is to be invested in delivering improved service and a more personalised travel experience for customers.
Visit the Virgin Trains East Coast Media Centre at: http://www.virgintrainseastcoast.com/media-centre for the latest news and images.
STAGECOACH GROUP
• Stagecoach Group is a leading international public transport group, with extensive operations in the UK, mainland Europe, the United States and Canada. The Group employs around 38,000 people, and operates bus, coach, train, and tram services.
• Stagecoach is one of the UK’s biggest bus and coach operators with around 8,300 buses and coaches. Around 2.8 million passenger journeys are made on Stagecoach's buses every day on a network stretching from south-west England to the Highlands and Islands of Scotland. The Group’s business includes major city bus operations in London, Liverpool, Newcastle, Hull, Manchester, Oxford, Sheffield and Cambridge. Low-cost coach service, megabus.com, operates a network of inter-city services across the UK and continental Europe.
• Stagecoach is a major UK rail operator, running the South West Trains, Island Line and East Midlands Trains networks. It is also the majority shareholder (90%) in the new Virgin Trains East Coast franchise and has a 49% shareholding in Virgin Rail Group, which operates the West Coast rail franchise.
• Stagecoach also operates the Supertram light rail network in Sheffield.
• In North America, Stagecoach operates around 2,400 buses and coaches in the United States and Canada. Megabus.com links around 130 key locations in North America. Stagecoach is also involved in operating commuter, transit, airport express services, contracted, charter and sightseeing services.
