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National Express boosted as passengers shun trains

Evening Standard

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October 20, 2022

TRANSPORT giant National Express said today that passenger traffic on increasing numbers of its inter-city coach routes are now "well in excess" of pre-pandemic levels as frustrated passengers switch from the strike-ravaged railways.

- Michael Hunter

National Express boosted as passengers shun trains

There was also a rise in demand for travel around the time of the Queen's funeral, when the FTSE 250 company increased capacity across its network as mourners headed to London.

With Victoria coach station closed on the day of the service in nearby Westminster Abbey, it ran a pop-up coach station at Wembley, with more than 500 coaches terminating at the temporary facility in under 24 hours.

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