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First Group tries again with ORR for more Lumo open access routes

Peter Stonham
13 November 2025
 

First Group has come up with further new Open Access rail service applications for its Lumo operation despite previous knock backs from the DfT and Office of Rail and Road (ORR).

One of the proposals is a new direct route between Cardiff and York, with six return services each weekday from December 2028 calling at Birmingham, Derby, and Sheffield.

Plans for a new open access Cardiff-Edinburgh service are meanwhile being resubmitted by Alliance Rail whose previous bid was withdrawn in March amid...

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