The price from London to Newcastle is £59, and £10 more to Edinburgh.Īll the tickets are sold at .uk, but other train operators also sell them at identical prices. Lumo also has an interesting Anytime ticket - valid only on its trains, with no time constraints, and which can be bought minutes before departure. That £40 I average fare I found falls to £26.40. Anyone who is under 31 or over 59, as well as couples travelling using the Two Together railcard, can benefit. Railcard discounts apply (except for Veterans Railcards), reducing fares by 34%. In test bookings I made about a month in advance for the prime 10.45am train from London King's Cross to Edinburgh Waverley, one-way fares averaged £40 the most expensive day was Friday (£53.90), the cheapest were Tuesday (£30.90) and Wednesday (£31.90).Ĭhild fares for five-to-15-year-olds are roughly half (on test bookings, some LumoFixed tickets were 54% of the adult fare). The company promises 60% of tickets will be sold at £30 or less. One-way advance purchase tickets (known as LumoFixed) between London and Edinburgh start at £14.90, though most are likely to be in the range of £20-£30. But for passengers, the key appeal is price. It’s an ‘open access’ train operator, in competition with state-owned LNER.įirstGroup says the Lumo brand combines ‘illumination and motion’, and its slogan is ‘Travel well, beyond expectations’. Early in 2022, that will increase to five a day.

Lumo began on 25 October 2021 with two daily trains each way. They stop only at Newcastle-upon-Tyne and Morpeth in Northumberland, and, on some services, Stevenage in Hertfordshire. Smart blue trains are now running daily on the East Coast Main Line between London King’s Cross and Edinburgh Waverley. Here’s everything you need to know about the new service. But First Group – the giant transport firm behind Lumo – believes it has a profitable future while changing the face of inter-city travel.

Since the initial promotional push ended on 1 December, fares have risen. It helped that no one needed to pay more than £20 for an advance one-way ticket on the 393-mile, one-way trip on the East Coast Main Line between the two capitals. For a new transport brand, it’s a good problem to have: for the first five weeks of the Lumo rail link between London and Edinburgh, almost all the seats were sold before the first train had even run.

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