Part two of Andy Comfort's focus on Hull Trains looks at the company’s recovery from the pandemic, and at its ambitions to run more services.
In this article:
- Hull Trains faced severe financial challenges during the COVID-19 pandemic, suspending services three times without government support.
- Refocused on leisure travel and returned to recovery, running longer trains and increasing weekly services.
- The company is planning future expansions, including a potential new route between Sheffield and London by 2025.
“You must stay at home.”
The words of then-Prime Minister Boris Johnson, announcing the first national lockdown on March 23 2020 due to COVID-19, would have a profound effect on the entire rail industry - not least of all on an open access operator such as Hull Trains.
The company had begun the new decade in buoyant mood, with the first of its new bi-mode Class 802 Paragon trains having entered passenger service in December 2019.
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