Avanti given six more months to run west coast mainline despite 'unacceptable' service
Avanti has been given another six months to run the west coast mainline rail service — but has been warned it must increase the frequency of services.
Over the summer, Avanti reduced trains to one per hour from the second city to London due to ‘operational difficulties’, the government said. To overcome these issues, an improvement plan has been put in place, transport minister Anne-Marie Trevelyan said.“We need train services which are reliable and resilient to modern day life,” Ms Trevelyan said in a statement.
The improvement plan implemented will see a swathe of new drivers trained, and recruiting other members of the train crew. There will also be a timetable recovery plan and a ‘significant, sustained and reliable increase from about 180 trains per day to 264 trains per day on weekdays as new and retrained drivers become available’, the DfT added.
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