A train Company has announced that it wants to run six electric return trains a day between London Euston and Rochdale, via Manchester Victoria.
Lumo has submitted an application to the Office of Rail and Road seeking permission to launch the new route which would also call at Eccles, Newton-le-Willows and Warrington Bank Quay.
It currently operates passenger trains on the East Coast Main Line between London King’s Cross and Edinburgh Waverley.
The trains on the route would be brand new and built in the U.K.
The Company estimates that this new service would provide 1.6m people in the North West with a convenient and competitively priced direct rail service to London from stations that are more local to them, helping to stimulate a shift in transport mode from coach and car travel to rail!.
