The biggest timetable change on the East Coast Main Line in more than a decade launches today (Sunday).
It introduces an additional 10,000 LNER services per year and 60,000 extra seats available each week.
Journey planners including National Rail Enquiries are up to date with information to help passengers find best routes and book advance tickets.
The new timetable is the result of £4 billion invested on the ECML over the past ten years, including the East Coast Upgrade, and will provide more trains, thousands of extra seats per day and quicker journeys.
Please check with your local train operator, or use the Journey Planner on the National Rail website for the most up-to-date information before you travel.
LNER (London – North Yorkshire – Scotland)
The new timetable will boost capacity with more than 60,000 extra seats across the route each week, and deliver better connectivity, including faster services from London and York to Edinburgh (just over four hours).
An hourly fast service between Edinburgh, York and London King’s Cross will cut journey times to around four hours ten minutes.
This will leave London at half past the hour rather than on the hour. There will be more faster trains from York to and from London too with different stopping patterns.
At Northallerton there will be more direct LNER trains to London with faster journey times. LNER will provide hourly services for most of the day, seven days per week. However there will be a need to change most of the day to make a journey up to Scotland.
The Monday to Saturday LNER from Selby will leave at 07:37 and will call additionally at Peterborough.
Grand Central (Northallerton/Thirsk/York to London)
Quicker journey times on some services on the North East route. A more consistent Monday to Saturday timetable. Many services will operate in similar slots – such as services departing from London King’s Cross on the hour.
Trains will be spaced more evenly throughout the day with an earlier Sunderland to London service via Thirsk and York and a later London to Sunderland service on Sundays.
There will be more services for Pontefract Monkhill, on the West Riding route, including Sundays and the introduction of Seaham calls on the York – Sunderland trains.
Hull Trains (Howden and Selby to London)
There will be one extra trip north from London to Hull and Selby.
Towards London King’s Cross, some Hull Trains services are up to 20 minutes earlier or later than in May 2025.
TransPennine Express (Northallerton/Thirsk/York/Malton)
Increase in TransPennine Express services between Newcastle and Edinburgh Waverley to eight trains per day in each direction Monday-Saturday and seven trains in each direction on Sundays.
This will allow better connections from North Yorkshire to Northumberland and Scottish station, north of Newcastle.
There will be minor retiming to the service between Redcar Central, Northallerton, York and Manchester Airport.
Minor re-timings between Hull, Selby and Leeds too.
Northern (Local trains in Yorkshire and the North of England)
York – Harrogate – Leeds
Additional morning peak train introduced to replace the LNER service which will no longer be running.
Sheffield – York (via Pontefract)
Sunday trains are back, with two each way, improving weekend connectivity for places like Sherburn-in-Elmet and Church Fenton
There will more trains from York to Harrogate on a Sunday with an earlier first train at 09:15, a later last train at 22:45, and extra train at 10:15 as well. The last train from Harrogate back to York on Sunday is later too (22:12 instead of 21:42).
There will be an extra train from York to Hull departing at 06:13 Monday to Friday.
On Sundays there will be extra, later, last trains between York and Hull, leaving York at 22:21 and leaving Hull at 21:48.
Ellie Burrows, Eastern regional managing director, Network Rail, said: “The industry has been preparing for many years for the new timetable, which will unlock thousands more seats, more frequent trains, and quicker journeys along the East Coast Main Line.
“Our priority now is to continue working together to deliver the long-term benefits of this timetable change, the biggest in over a decade, for our passengers and the communities we serve.”
