Skegness or Spain?

BBC Radio Nottingham interviewed Greentraveller this morning as part of a feature looking at whether the city's travellers would be prepared to forgo a holiday in Spain for a trip to Skegness, on environmental grounds.

The feature was in response to the recent announcement by Central Trains to improve services from Nottingham to Skegness.

Since 21 May, Central Trains – part of the National Express Group – has added extra seats to some of the weekday services between Nottingham and Skegness, including the 10.50am service.

The extra carriages on some of the Skegness services is part of the move by Central to provide 1,000 extra seats for passengers on some of the busiest routes in the East and West Midlands, South Wales and across the wider Central Trains’ network.

National Express Group has acquired nine additional fast, modern air-conditioned diesel trains to release an extra 36 carriages across the Central Trains’ Network.

Central Trains’ Managing Director, Steve Banaghan, said:  “We have listened to our passengers; and are delighted to provide up to 1,000 extra seats to cater for the growing number of people using our services.

“We know lots of people do like to be beside the seaside over the summer holidays. This means our Nottingham-Grantham-Skegness service is frequently a busy one, so by extending some of the weekday trains to five carriage units, we aim to go some way towards relieving congestion problems for day-trippers and other travellers to the Lincolnshire coast.

“In other parts of our network, these extra diesel train units are already proving their worth by providing extra capacity on some of the busiest commuter services. Some of these trains are being kept on standby to enter service at short notice if they are required.”