(19 Jan 2025, 2:38 pm)Rob44 wrote it looks like GNER are sold out for train tickets to London kx on the 15th March!  I am thinking of getting train to Carlisle then train down to London Euston.   Anyone got experience of these operators??  Are they reliable?

Thanks in advance!

The ECML is shut that weekend North of Darlington, but that's not a route I'd be going.

If I had to do that journey I'd do

Northern: Newcastle to Thornaby
TPE: Thornaby to Leeds or York
LNER: Leeds or York to London

It'll be much quicker than the West Coast. You could in theory do it from Heworth either since it's the same train you'd get from Newcastle (believe it's where you're based at atm).