A new direct train service linking Cleethorpes and Grimsby with London will not start in December 2024, as had been planned.
RAIL has been told that LNER’s reintroduction of a through service from north-east Lincolnshire is on hold because of timetabling, financial, operational and infrastructure issues. The last direct services were withdrawn in 1992.
The plan would entail LNER extending one of its Lincoln-London King’s Cross services to and from Cleethorpes, with a morning departure from Cleethorpes and an evening return from London, running via Barnetby and Market Rasen.
The proposal has the support of major businesses in northern Lincolnshire, including Phillips 66 which runs the large Humber Refinery, the Grimsby and Immingham port operator ABP, and the Hull & Humber Chamber of Commerce.
On June 26 2023, a test…
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