Lumo is a 100% electric train service, travelling exclusively down the East Coast of the UK between London & Edinburgh, calling at Stevenage, Newcastle & Morpeth.
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They come from the same family and were built by Hitachi. Our only issue would be that the Lumo trains are only five carriages, which means they're likelier to feel a bit 'cosier' on busier services! Railsmartr says: LNER has the edge with longer trains and more seats, but the trains themselves look much the same!
The trains are fairly fast — roughly four-and-a-half hours from London to Edinburgh — though admittedly not as fast as the fastest LNER trains, which travel London-Edinburgh in four hours and 20 minutes.
Aside from the lack of First Class the key features of the coaches on a Lumo train are: There are only two sets of table seats per coach, so most of the seats are airline style.