Border line: A LNER train crosses the Royal Border Bridge at Berwick-upon-Tweed on the East Coast Main Line
(Picture: LNER)The rail firm that runs long-distance trains on the East Coast Main Line is the first in the UK to get busier than it was before the pandemic - mainly due to the rise in leisure trips.
New figures show that London North East Railways – which was taken back into Government control four years ago – was used by more travellers between April and June than over the same period in 2019, before the pandemic caused a nationwide collapse in public transport use.
