direct via York and Durham, roughly 5 direct daily CrossCountry workings plus additional TransPennine Express services
CrossCountry, TransPennine Express
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direct via York and Durham, roughly 5 direct daily CrossCountry workings plus additional TransPennine Express services
CrossCountry, TransPennine Express
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CrossCountry's own site states its fastest journeys take just over 1 hour 22 minutes, while its average across the day runs closer to 1 hour 30 minutes - unlike the CrossCountry corridors elsewhere in this file, this one does not touch Birmingham at all.
crosscountrytrains.co.uk · checked 2026-09-10
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LNER trains also pass through both Leeds and York en route to Newcastle without necessarily being sold as a direct Leeds-Newcastle product on every timetable board - CrossCountry and TransPennine Express are the two operators documented here as genuinely running this specific corridor.
crosscountrytrains.co.uk · checked 2026-09-10