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Customers are expected to benefit from improved punctuality and even more reliable journeys – with new platforms, enhanced signalling, and technology designed to spot potential overhead line issues among more than 60 initiatives set out in a joint plan to boost performance.

LNER is preparing for its first summer holiday season since introducing thousands of additional services and millions more seats each year through its transformational new timetable.

UPDATE: 24 June 2026, 16.00

As extremely high temperatures continue to be forecast, LNER is extending the below advice. Customers are strongly recommended to not travel on Friday (26 June 2026), alongside existing advice for Wednesday and Thursday. Customers should visit www.lner.co.uk/travel-information/travel-updates/ for the latest information.

To mark the 150^th anniversary of the birth of Sir Nigel Gresley, former Chief Mechanical Engineer of the original LNER, a special Azuma train livery has been unveiled at Doncaster railway station.

LNER has become the first UK train operator to introduce the ‘Ask for Angela’ safeguarding scheme across its trains and managed stations. The launch comes in Rail Safety Week, an industry wide initiative which focuses on rail safety for all.   

A new industry-wide mentoring programme has been launched at York Railway Station on Social Mobility Day (Thursday 11 June 2026), helping to level the playing field for colleagues regardless of their background.

LNER is inviting the public to a special Evensong service at Doncaster Minster to celebrate the life and work of famous railway engineer, Sir Nigel Gresley, ahead of the 150^th anniversary of his birth.

LNER has revealed further details of its special service to mark the start of Harry Styles’ UK concerts. Named the ‘Together, Together’ Train, it aims to treat people with kindness by raising funds for numerous charities across the LNER route. The train will depart Edinburgh Waverley at 08:30, bound for London King’s Cross on Friday 12 June 2026. 

Overnight Wednesday night into Thursday morning (4 June 2026), an LNER Azuma train was carrying out further, important viability tests on the Midland Main Line, away from its usual route.

LNER has hosted a unique on-train experience with multi-million bestselling author Matt Haig for a one-off book club event attended by a reading group. Timed to coincide with the publication of Haig’s new novel, THE MIDNIGHT TRAIN, this on-train book club also celebrates The National Year of Reading, a year-long initiative which invites the nation to (re)discover the joy of reading. 

An LNER train driver with more than forty years of experience has swapped sitting at the controls of a 125mph passenger train for something a little more leisurely – a miniature version of the train he usually drives, limited to 6mph.

LNER employs dozens of brilliant, hard-working and dedicated travel consultants along its East Coast route between Edinburgh and London, but few can lay claim to a role quite as distinctive as Paul Doughty’s. Alongside his part-time role at the travel centre at York Railway Station, Paul also serves as the current Sheriff of York, one of the city’s most historic and ceremonial public offices.