(19 Jan 2025, 2:43 pm)Storx wrote 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.

will to two changes rather than the one change not make it longer though? 

are there trqains from york to london whuich dont go as far as newcastle?

 I will have a look though, cheers