(03 Jan 2015, 6:35 pm)tyresmoke wrote East Coast & Crosscountry organise their own, usually using different operators. XC (being Arriva owned) used to heavily use Classic but now that'll be no more. It remains to be seen whether they'll use Jim Hughes or not.
Jim Hughes was used for some rail replacement work out of Newcastle last week(?) when there was some issues on the ECML.