We launched our new services to Edinburgh on 16 May with the Secretary of State for Scotland, David Mundell MP appearing alongside David Horne and Martin Griffiths, chief executive of Stagecoach.

Our new timetable means that there are 42 additional trains connecting the UK and Scottish capitals every week, adding 22,000 seats to the weekly capacity and making the service near half hourly. As a result we’ve already seen a surge of bookings for journeys across the border, up by 15% compared with last year.