Open access operators putting final touches to plans for new services

Grand Central and Renaissance Trains are close to submitting applications to run new open access services.

Grand Central business development director Ian Yeowart told Transit that a new application to operate between London and Bradford on the East Coast Main Line would be presented to the Office of Rail Regulation in February. Meanwhile, Renaissance director John Nelson said he would submit an application to reintroduce direct services from Nottingham and Liverpool to Glasgow “within...