Anglo-Scottish travellers considering their travel options during continuing air travel problems will benefit from Virgin Trains decision to continue providing extra weekday services next week in addition to its regular London – Glasgow services.
London-Glasgow fares start from £17.50 Advance Single making travelling by train the best choice and these Advance tickets are available on many services including the 20:00 Glasgow Central to London Euston additional weekday service.
Virgin Trains will be running a full weekend service this weekend (24-25 April) following the lifting of engineering restrictions on Anglo-Scottish routes by Network Rail. Advance Tickets are still available for many of these weekend services.
This announcement follows a week of enhanced weekday services provided by Virgin Trains to assist air travellers. More than 4,000 additional seats have made available daily on Virgin Trains services to help passengers who have been unable to travel by air. Virgin Trains reports a 205% increase in customers using its London - Glasgow route since the Air Travel crisis began on Thursday 15 April and a 770% increase on its London - Holyhead route.
Virgin Trains confirmed today that their enhanced weekday service would continue from Monday 26 to Friday 30 April to help ease the travel backlog.
Additional Sunday Services for Virgin London Marathon
Demand for rail travel to London is expected to be high this weekend as competitors and spectators travel to London for the Virgin London Marathon on Sunday. Three special early morning trains will into London Euston will be provided for Marathon customers:
- 05:50 Liverpool Lime Street arriving London Euston 08:54
- 05:33 Manchester Piccadilly, arriving London Euston 08:27
- 06:20 Birmingham New Street, arriving London Euston 08:19
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