(15 Jan 2015, 8:13 pm)northern156 wrote East Coast don't run trains to Middlesbrough, David. Also sometimes diversions that seem odd have to take place due to lack of route knowledge (to train a whole depot of around 50 drivers and 50 guards for example would take forever if there were only four allowed on one route learning loco at one time).
Yet - talking about the Virgin East Coast plans to serve Middlesbrough in the future.