LNER has released its latest cab-ride video, showcasing the full journey from Edinburgh Waverley to London King’s Cross from the driver’s perspective. The footage tracks the southbound run along the East Coast Main Line, offering an uninterrupted view from the cab as the train departs Scotland’s capital, crosses open countryside and passes through key towns and stations on the way to London. It continues the operator’s growing series of driver-eye recordings, providing enthusiasts and regular passengers with a chance to experience the route from a viewpoint rarely seen by the public.

The timing of the upload closely precedes a major timetable change scheduled for December 2025, one of the most substantial upgrades on the route in recent years. Under the new plan, nearly 10,000 extra services per year and more than 60,000 additional seats each week will be introduced across the network, marking a significant increase in long-distance rail capacity. The upgrade will also bring a new hourly fast service between Edinburgh and London, aiming to reduce journey times between the two capitals to around four hours ten minutes.

With the new timetable on the horizon, the cab-ride video arrives as a detailed visual record of the line in its current form. Viewers are taken step-by-step along the existing operational path — tracing the track layout, infrastructure, signalling and landscape that define one of the UK’s busiest intercity corridors today. As part of LNER’s ongoing cab-ride series, it serves both as engaging viewing for rail followers and a timely snapshot of the journey that will soon be served by a more frequent and faster timetable.

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