New trains for East Coast line worth £6 billion

New trains being worked on in Japan

ITV News can exclusively reveal the final designs of a new generation of InterCity trains soon to take to the tracks in the region.

Work is underway on the first of hundreds of new bullet-style carriages in Japan for East Coast and Great Western trains, at a cost of almost £6 billion.

Rail bosses hope with with extra seats and space they should help ease the overcrowding crisis suffered by passengers.

Interior of full-size mock-up train.
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Full size mock-ups of several carriages were secretly built to get the views of watchdogs and the rail industry and the final design is about to be approved by the Government.

The routes that will serve our region are:

1) London to Stevenage, Peterborough, Grantham, Newark, Lincoln, Retford and on to Edinburgh and Glasgow.

2) London to Retford, Doncaster, Wakefield, Leeds, York, Selby, Hull, Bradford, Shipley, Harrogate, Keighley, Skipton, Northallerton, Darlington and on to Edinburgh and Glasgow