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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
Travel
Milo Boyd

Brits increasingly opting for trains over planes on domestic routes

A new rail service in the UK has helped forge a massive shift from air travel to rail in its first year of operating, offering encouraging signs for the future of green transport.

On Tuesday Lumo celebrated a year since it first started running its London to Edinburgh line, joining Avanti West Coast and London North Eastern Railway on the route.

During that time the passenger shift from planes to train has increased rapidly, and now more people are going by track rather than air between the English and Scottish capitals for the first time in many years.

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