LNER to introduced a London to Cleethorpes service from May 2022

[Jorge Da Silva]

According to Modern Railway May 2021 issue page 24 , LNER are to introduce a London to Cleethorpes service as part of the timetable overhaul planned post-upgrade.

 

[JonathanH]

According to Modern Railway May 2021 issue page 24 , LNER are to introduce a London to Cleethorpes service as part of the timetable overhaul planned post-upgrade.

Seems easy enough - just extend the final Lincoln train through to Cleethorpes and it runs back to Doncaster via Scunthorpe instead of going via Gainsborough with the opposite in the morning.

 

[Jorge Da Silva]

Seems easy enough - just extend the final Lincoln train through to Cleethorpes and it runs back to Doncaster via Scunthorpe instead of going via Gainsborough with the opposite in the morning.

Seems like thats what they are doing

Its the first and last trains i think

 

[JonathanH]

Seems like thats what they are doing

Its the first and last trains i think

Logically, it would enable the first and last trains from Lincoln to Cleethorpes to spend the day on the Barton branch with the LNER trains taking the place of the first Cleethorpes to Lincoln train and the last Lincoln to Cleethorpes train.

 

[Failed Unit]

I wonder what the stopping pattern will be. Will it stop at Market Rasen, Barnetby, Habrough like the old IC 125 service did. To be honest I doubt demand is big enough for any of them.

 

[Jorge Da Silva]

I wonder what the stopping pattern will be. Will it stop at Market Rasen, Barnetby, Habrough like the old IC 125 service did. To be honest I doubt demand is big enough for any of them.

I think it will be: Market Rasen, Habrough, Barnetby, Grimsby Town and Cleethorpes

 

[RH Liner]

I think it will be: Market Rasen, Habrough, Barnetby, Grimsby Town and Cleethorpes

If Eric Morecambe was driving this train he would say ‘I’m stopping at all the right stations, but not necessarily in the right order’.

 

[Jorge Da Silva]

If Eric Morecambe was driving this train he would say ‘I’m stopping at all the right stations, but not necessarily in the right order’.

I got them in the wrong order

 

[dk1]

Just in marginal times I suppose. Can’t imagine it’ll ever be a money spinner.

 

[Ianno87]

Just in marginal times I suppose. Can’t imagine it’ll ever be a money spinner.

Probably fits in the "won't lose money" category.

 

[dk1]

Probably fits in the "won't lose money" category.

Ticks a box somewhere too I suppose. Hardly likely to be of any use to the tourism industry but doubt there’s much of that from London.

 

[swt_passenger]

With this and a regular Middlesbrough service, I predict geographically challenged people blundering around Kings Cross asking what‘s happened to their Lincoln and York trains….

 

[Kite159]

Just in marginal times I suppose. Can’t imagine it’ll ever be a money spinner.

Maybe even cost them money with having to train the staff.

 

[Ianno87]

With this and a regular Middlesbrough service, I predict geographically challenged people blundering around Kings Cross asking what‘s happened to their Lincoln and York trains….

I wonder how many Leeds bound passengers have missed trains because they don't realise at certain times of day you have to look out for trains to Bradford/Skipton/Harrogate (I doubt it's very many)

 

[Sean Emmett]

If Eric Morecambe was driving this train he would say ‘I’m stopping at all the right stations, but not necessarily in the right order’.

Like that. Reading this in the 'Eric Bartholomew', 'spoons in Morecambe.

 

[Jorge Da Silva]

Its in the consultation.

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Rail firm LNER has unveiled plans for the first direct Grimsby to London train service since 1993.

The proposal is part of a consultation for major changes to train timetables in 2022, which launched today (June 11th).

From next May LNER want to run one train per day between Cleethorpes, Grimsby and London via Lincoln.

On weekdays it would leave Cleethorpes at 6:24am and Grimsby at 6:32am, arriving at London's King's Cross at 9:25am.

The return leg would depart from London at 16:10pm, getting back to Grimsby for 19:05pm

One train would operate in each direction between Monday and Saturday, while on Sundays one service would operate northbound, taking passengers between the capital and Grimsby.

The plans are at an early stage and the company says they may 'change slightly'. LNER has yet to decide which stations the train will call at along the route.

It would use the new 5-car Azuma trains introduced to the East Coast Mainline in 2019.

You can have your say on the plans here. The consultation runs until August 2021.

 

[Class 170101]

Did the service prior to 1993 run via Lincoln or was it via Scunthorpe?

 

[Aictos]

Did the service prior to 1993 run via Lincoln or was it via Scunthorpe?

I'm sure it was via Lincoln indeed according to the WTTs I have, they all say via Lincoln.

 

[TheBigD]

Via Lincoln...

Did the service prior to 1993 run via Lincoln or was it via Scunthorpe?

 

[LowLevel]

Did the service prior to 1993 run via Lincoln or was it via Scunthorpe?

Via Lincoln, I believe worked between Newark and Cleethorpes by Regional Railways traincrew from Lincoln on hire to Intercity.