Between the Lines

Chris Stokes

Diesel under the wires: Voyager No 221113 at Kirkham & Wesham with Virgin Trains’ 16.33 London Euston - Blackpool North service on 27 June 2018. John Whitehouse

Electrification of the Preston – Blackpool route last year made it possible for Virgin West Coast to increase its London – Blackpool service from a single Voyager service daily, combined in the southbound direction with a Holyhead – Euston set at Crewe, to four trains a day.

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