(24 Aug 2022, 10:11 pm)Unber43 wrote THe only thing imo which it needs is more earlier and later services. I think the first one gets into London around 10/11am which is pretty useless for people commuting for work etc. 

There should be some going direct from Edinburgh/Newcastle Non-Stop to London to be there for 8:20/10:20/12:20 etc every 2 hours. I think it would make it more appealing, a higher frequency would definitely make me use it more, if ever if I was ever to go to London currently I would use LNER. 

Lumo are limited by the paths granted by Network Rail and the ORR, they also have to work around having 4 trains in service at any one time. At the moment it will be outside of Martijn's control but I'd imagine he'd have a say in any future timetable recast.

Lumo already provide an early morning service from London with LNER providing them from Edinburgh and Newcastle with the Flying Scotsman service. Lumo also provide services to London and Edinburgh that arrive close to 1am.

There's usually a choice between Lumo and LNER with them chasing each other up and down the ECML. With advance tickets you aren't tied to only one operator to get you there and back, so surely if Lumo were running a train at the time you searched for, for less than LNER, you'd book yourself on it?