The Lumo train service offers Scots a comfortable travel experience to the UK capital without jumping on and off.
The Lumo train service has extended its daily London service into the west of Scotland.(Image: Euan Cherry/PA Wire)
Scots who regularly travel to London will be delighted to hear that a popular train service has extended its route into the west of Scotland to offer more customers a comfortable travelling experience. Lumo, which offers a daily train service from London to Edinburgh, will now finish in Glasgow.
Offering low-cost travel between the Scottish and English capitals, the Lumo train will now start and end at the Glasgow Queen Street station. It will also travel via Edinburgh and Falkirk High.
The low-cost operator says that the entire journey from Glasgow to London should take less than five and a half hours to complete. However, this is based on the service travellers end up choosing.
Lumo will be running two northbound services a day during the week, along with one southbound train. This drops to one in each direction at the weekends.
Travellers wanting to explore the north of England can also use this Glasgow service as the train will call at Morpeth and Newcastle, as well as Stevenage and London King’s Cross. And this isn’t the last stop on Lumo’s newest Scottish venture.
The Lumo service will now pass through Edinburgh and Falkirk High, before ending at Glasgow Queen Street.(Image: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)
According to the BBC, the First Group train operator is also set to launch a daily service between Stirling and London Euston in 2026. This service will also call at Larbert, Greenfaulds, Whifflet, Motherwell and Lockerbie as it travels down to England.
Speaking about the extended line into Glasgow, managing director of First Rail Open Access Stuart Jones described the launch as a “landmark moment”.
He added: “This offers a sustainable travel option whilst also boosting economic growth. We’re proud to champion Scotland and look forward to providing the unique Lumo service to even more customers from this week.”
While Scotland nationalised its rail services in 2022, and England is set to have all of their services taken into public ownership by 2027, Lumo runs on an “open access basis”. This means that the company sets its own fares and receives no taxpayer funded subsidies.
Paul Tetlaw, from sustainable transport group Transform Scotland, also hopes that the new and upcoming Lumo services will help travellers to choose the train instead of flying down to London.
He explained: “There is a significant market of people who currently drive or fly to the north east of England and London who now have the opportunity to switch to the train.
“The new services soon to be launched from Stirling will help to build on that modal shift to rail.”
He also added that he hopes that the new connection into the heart of Glasgow will help bring more people to the 2026 Commonwealth Games.
Following Victoria, Australia’s withdrawal from holding the upcoming sporting competition, Glasgow has taken on the task of hosting the games between July 23 and August 2 in 2026.
Glasgow last hosted the Commonwealth Games back in 2014, but is scheduled to host a scaled-down version of the event. Next year’s games will feature only 10 core sports taking place, which is a drop from its usual 18, with fewer venues also being used.