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Ross Lydall

Revealed: New train timetable will make Flying Scotsman from Edinburgh to London slower

LNER’s Azuma trains will no longer arrive at King’s Cross four hours after leaving Edinburgh - (Ross Lydall)

A new train timetable designed to speed-up rail travel between London and Scotland will make one of the world’s most iconic trains slower, The Standard can reveal.

The Flying Scotsman service, which takes exactly four hours to travel from Edinburgh Waverley to King’s Cross each morning, will instead take four hours 13 minutes to complete the journey when the East Coast Main Line (ECML) timetable changes in December 2025.

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