MORE than 1,700 extra seats a day will be available for rail passengers travelling with GNER next year.
The operator has signed a deal with Angel Trains to lease ten carriages to provide additional seating on the East Coast Main Line.
Mark 3 carriages, transferred from another part of the rail network, are due to enter passenger service with GNER from the start of the winter 2003 timetable.
Each of GNER's nine diesel high-speed trains will be lengthened by an extra standard coach, with one carriage added to a newly-leased train used as maintenance back-up.
GNER chief executive Christopher Garnett said: "The additional seats provided on this busy route will go some way to easing over-crowding, especially during the morning and evening peaks."
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