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Livid commuter hit with 'insane' £800 fare hike after daily train to work cancelled

Daniel Wilson, 39, from Stoke-on-Trent, has had to pay another £800 on top of his near £3,000 annual train ticket after his usual morning service was cancelled

Daily Mirror

Disgusted Manchester commuter told to pay £800 more after train cancelled

He has slammed Avanti West Coast

Manchester Evening News

Extra direct train services between North Wales and London to start next week

The new timetable will see nine direct services between the UK capital and the North Wales region

Birmingham Post

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Train passengers forced to ‘sleep on floor’ after being ‘abandoned’ 99 miles away

Pictures posted on social media showed a number of passengers waiting at the "freezing cold" station - with one even sleeping on the floor

Daily Mirror

Glasgow-bound rail customers 'left to sleep on floor' in middle of night after being 'abandoned' in Carlisle

The Avanti West Coast passengers claim they had to sleep on the train station floor after being "abandoned" at Carlisle last night.

Daily Record

Glasgow-bound train passengers 'sleep on station floor' after being 'abandoned' at Carlisle

Passengers criticised Avanti West Coast for not providing overnight accommodation for people "who couldn't stand on their feet" after a service from London Euston to Glasgow was forced to terminate at Carlisle.

Glasgow Live

Refurbished Pendolinos return to the rails as part of UK's biggest ever train upgrade

Avanti West Coast customers promised an improved onboard experience

Liverpool Echo

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First Pendolino returns to the rails in largest train fleet refurbishment

Avanti West Coast said the £117m scheme will make its 56 Pendolinos ‘look and feel like new trains’.

The Independent UK

Rail traveller gets surprise proposal at Euston station

The interchange is a spot where Nirmal Chohan and Vidya Patel have met up many times during their long-distance relationship.

The Independent UK

UK train tickets: the great rail sale is on – but is there a catch?

One million tickets are up for grabs at up to half-price to encourage people back to the train but don’t get too excited

The Guardian - UK

Avanti train staff's outrage at 'see through' uniforms

A union called the uniforms 'disgraceful' and said they would leave staff 'exposed'

Liverpool Echo

Train staff could strike as Avanti West Coast is blasted for 'see-through' uniforms

Avanti West Coast have been told to abandon their rollout of new uniforms that are reportedly making people staff fell comfortable.

Daily Record

Glasgow to London train staff consider strike action over new 'see-through' uniforms

Avanti West Coast train staff have demanded the railway operator axe plans for new uniforms which make female workers feel exposed and vulnerable.

Glasgow Live

Train staff criticise 'see through' uniform claiming it shows their bras

Avanti said there were no issues raised during a trial of the new uniforms and they conform with international standards of grading quality

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Outcry over 'see-through' uniforms for women train staff who claim people can see their underwear

They claim the 'very cheap material' means people can see their bras through it, from the front and back

Daily Mirror

Fury at 'see-through tops showing bras' as train company refuses to axe uniforms

Avanti West Coast are being urged to abandon plans to bring in the apparently "see through" uniforms after outcry from female employees

The Independent UK

Final departure for rail worker after 50-year career

Tommy Michalek, 65, went into retirement after leading Avanti West Coast’s platform team at Carlisle station for the last time.

Wales Online

Five thousand pupils in England offered free school trips

Avanti West Coast are offering the complementary excursions on their trains for children aged four to 18

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Liverpool Echo

Avanti West Coast climate train named after nationwide search

Luca Fazakerley, 10, won the competition to design the new train

Birmingham Post

Coventry Railway Station undergoes £82m transformation

A new station building has been built as well as new entrances, a concourse featuring five shops, lifts and a cycle hub

Birmingham Post

Avanti West Coast increasing services on routes from London to Manchester, Wales and Birmingham

This will increase the AWC operation to six trains per hour on the West Coast Main Line

Wales Online

Rail firms ramp up timetables as passenger demand begins to return to pre-Covid levels

Avanti West Coast and East Midlands Railway the latest to join other companies in reintroducing services cut when the Omicron coronavirus variant arrived in the UK

Manchester Evening News

Full list of train timetable alterations as Northern and Avanti West Coast cancel services due to Storm Eunice

Storm Eunice is expected to cause major disruption to train travel on Friday

Edinburgh Live

Edinburgh Avanti passenger 'stranded' at Preston as train staff get taxis back

An Edinburgh passenger was left 'stranded' with no direction at Preston during Storm Dudley as Avanti West Coast staff allegedly booked themselves taxis to return to Scotland.

The Independent UK

Storm Dudley to spark travel chaos for trains, planes and ferries

Avanti West Coast is urging passengers planning trips north of Preston to complete journeys by 4pm or travel on Thursday

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