Additional trains for Scarborough unlikely before end of 2028
"The quicker that we can get on with that and if we can find the funding support and all of the necessary approvals and eveveryone agrees, then you could have that enhanced service operating between Scarborough and York by Christmas 2028," said the firm's Graham Meiklejohn.The BBC asked the York and North Yorkshire Combined Authority if it was discussing funding additional training with TransPennine Express but it has not yet responded.The mayor, who has made additional trains a priority for his four-year term in office, said: "The whole York to Scarborough corridor is so important for visitors and commuters but also for the growth of businesses."There are companies in Scarborough and Seamer looking to attract more employees and attract those high skilled jobs, and with just one train an hour it doesn't open up those opportunities".
Extra trains are a long held ambition for businesses on the coast who say the resort is being held back due to less frequent services.An increased service proposal has been welcomed by the Stephen Joseph Theatre in Scarborough who have previously said audiences members leave early to avoid waiting a long time for the next train at the station. George Baker-Davis from GEO Bar and Grill sits on the Scarborough Hospitality Board and said he believed a more frequent rail service could relieve pressure on the major A64 road to into the town."Obviously humans look for convenience and even with the struggle the A64 poses, they still use that mode of transport."If there was some more consistency with trains and more convenience in the increased frequency I would love to think that could help both modes of transport."
In 2023 TransPennine Express was one of the worst performing trains companies in the country with multiple trains to and from Scarborough being cancelled every day, leaving the coastal town with a skeleton service, according to the Office of Rail and Road. The regulator said the cancellation rate rose from 5.8% to 17% with trains cancelled up to 22:00 the night before for four weeks in March of that year due to staff shortages.The company was taken over by the government in May 2023 and since transferring into public ownership, it said it had reduced cancellations by 75%.The proposed service increase was also one of a number of rail priorities set out by former Labour Home Secretary Lord David Blunkett in his report Yorkshire's Plan for Rail that was published in June 2025.
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