Standing room only in Scotland as new carriages stop at the border
Passengers could face years of overcrowding on a key Anglo-Scottish rail route because extra train carriages due to come into service in 2012 will only go as far as Birmingham and Manchester, The Herald has learned.
Exclusive: Damien Henderson, Transport Correspondent
The Department for Transport (DfT) has ordered 106 new carriages for the tilting, 125-mph Pendolino trains that operate between London and Glasgow on the West Coast Main Line, allowing 31 of the 51-train fleet to be lengthened -- from nine cars to 11.
