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			Great North Eastern Railway (GNER) operate high-speed express train services on the East Coast Main Line.
		Great North Eastern Railway (GNER) run fast, frequent passenger rail services on the flagship East Coast Main Lineen London King's Cross, the East Midlands, Yorkshire, the North East of England and Scotland, carrying more than 17.4 million passengers a year. Most GNER trains run between London King's Cross and either Edinburgh Waverley or Leeds. From Edinburgh and Waverley, selected services continue on to Motherwell & Glasgow, Inverness, or Dundee & Aberdeen. From Leeds, some GNER trains run to and from Bradford, Skipton, and Harrogate. From Leeds, some trains run to and from Bradford, Skipton, and Harrogate. One GNER service per day also runs to and from Hull via Selby. Using the RailEasy™ train ticket price checker and Rail Saver reservation service to complete an online GNER train ticket reservation is quick and easy.

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GNER Trains run fast, frequent passenger rail services on the flagship East Coast Main Line between London King's Cross, the East Midlands, Yorkshire, the North East of England and Scotland, carrying more than 17.4 million passengers a year.

The company started in 1996 and now carries 40% more passengers and runs 23% more trains (124 services every weekday, including 90 award-winning restaurant services). GNER consistently achieves amoungst the highest passenger satisfaction scores in the industry.

All GNER trains have been, or are being, rebuilt with a wireless internet service installed. Stations are being modernised, passenger information is being improved and ticket purchase is being made easier.

Great North Eastern Railway (GNER) is a British train operating company, owned by Sea Containers Ltd. They operate high-speed express train services on the East Coast Main Line. GNER employs 3, 100 staff across its 920-mile route, and was the first train operator to achieve Investor in People status across the business.

GNER Trains Rail Routes

GNER runs fast, frequent passenger rail services on the flagship East Coast Main Line between London King's Cross, the East Midlands, Yorkshire, the North East of England and Scotland, carrying more than 17.4 million passengers a year.

Most of their trains run between London King's Cross and either Edinburgh Waverley or Leeds. From Edinburgh Waverley, selected services continue on to Motherwell & Glasgow, Inverness, or Dundee & Aberdeen.

From Leeds, some trains run to and from Bradford, Skipton, and Harrogate.

One GNER service per day also runs to and from Hull via Selby.

Other towns and cities served by GNER trains include Stevenage, Peterborough, Grantham, Newark, Retford, Doncaster, York, Northallerton, Darlington, Durham, Newcastle upon Tyne, Morpeth, Alnmouth for Alnwick, Berwick-upon-Tweed, Dunbar, Wakefield, Perth, Kirkcaldy, Leuchars for St Andrews, Arbroath, and Montrose. GNER locomotives are serviced at Bounds Green TMD in London; and at Craigentinny in Edinburgh.

GNER Train Schedules & Frequency

In off-peak times, there are three or four trains per hour to and from Kings Cross. The following details apply to weekday operations.

Journey times on many services operated by GNER have actually increased since the days of British Rail. The fastest London to Edinburgh journey time offered by the state corporation was 3 hours 59 minutes, whereas the fastest GNER service today (with the same rolling stock) takes 4 hours 10 minutes (the 15:00 London Kings Cross to Edinburgh).

GNER Principal Train Routes

London–Newcastle–Edinburgh

A half-hourly service between Kings Cross and Newcastle operates for most of the day, departing from London on the hour and on the half hour. The ‘top of the hour’ departures continue through to Edinburgh (with the 10:00 keeping the traditional name Flying Scotsman), with some running on to either Glasgow Central, Aberdeen or Inverness.

These trains generally run as limited-stop expresses between London and Newcastle: all trains call at York, and most at Peterborough and Darlington, though afternoon and evening departures from Kings Cross run non-stop to Doncaster and/or York. The trains leaving Kings Cross on the half hour generally terminate at Newcastle and serve other intermediate stations such as Grantham, Newark, Retford, Doncaster and Durham as well as Peterborough, York, and Darlington.

London–Leeds

The service between Kings Cross and Leeds is generally half-hourly, with trains serving most main intermediate stations. With the completion of the Allington Chord, near Grantham, having increased track capacity, GNER have finally begun to operate a full half-hourly service throughout the day on this route.

London-Edinburgh-Glasgow

GNER operate ten trains per day between Kings Cross and Glasgow. With the upgrade of the West Coast Main Line between London Euston and Glasgow to 125mph now complete, GNER can no longer compete with Virgin Trains on this route when it comes to journey times (still 5hrs 30mins compared to the new 4hrs 25min time on the WCML), but they do provide a useful link from Glasgow to Newcastle and York and a secondary route for use when the WCML is closed for engineering work.

GNER Stations Served Less Frequently are:-

Aberdeen

There are three trains per day each way between Kings Cross and Aberdeen, the journey time being just over seven hours. There is also one service per day arriving at Aberdeen from Leeds. These services are operated by HST sets, as the line between Edinburgh and Aberdeen is not electrified.

Inverness

A daily service operates between Kings Cross and Inverness, called the Highland Chieftain, a journey taking just over eight hours. This route is operated with diesel HSTs, as the line north of Edinburgh is not electrified.

Hull

GNER continue to run the Hull Executive between Hull and Kings Cross, with one morning journey to London and one evening journey to Hull. Since the branch to Hull is not electrified, this route too is operated using diesel HST sets.

Bradford

There are two trains per day between Kings Cross and Bradford Forster Square. These are extensions of the Kings Cross–Leeds services and usually utilise the ‘Mallard’ electric sets.

Skipton

There is a morning train from Skipton and Keighley to Kings Cross with an early evening return. As is the case with the Bradford trains, this is an extension to the Leeds–London service. Though the line to Skipton is electrified throughout, the GNER service to/from the town is operated using a diesel HST because the electrical infrastructure on the Leeds to Skipton line is insufficient to support GNER's trains.

Harrogate

There is a Monday-Saturday morning HST departure from Harrogate to Kings Cross. However, there is no return journey so passengers are required to change at Leeds or York on to Northern Rail services to Harrogate.

The Saturday running of this service is the week's only GNER southbound service from Leeds not to call at Wakefield Westgate. This service departs from Leeds and heads along the Selby line to join the East Coast Main Line at Hambleton.

GNER Passenger Service

GNER employ approximately 3,000 staff along the East Coast Main Line, from King’s Cross to Aberdeen. They include people who work at stations, on trains, in Travel Centres, in GNER’s Telesales Centre and in their engineering depots.

GNER believe you deserve a high quality of customer service. This is why they invest a great deal of time in training our staff to look after you throughout your journey. GNER staff should always treat you fairly, in line with the policies outlined in the passenger charter, and in the National Rail Conditions of Carriage.

GNER believe in respecting the needs of each of their passengers and in providing a consistently high level of service recognising that disabled passengers sometimes face difficulties in travelling by rail.

To drive forward improved accessibility, GNER set up a Disability Advisory Group in 2004 to ensure that the commitments in this Disabled Persons Protection Policy (DPPP) are delivered, and to recommend future improvements.