Meeting will discuss extending Virgin Trains London service through Gobowen

A meeting is taking place in Oswestry today to discuss Virgin Trains extending their service from London Euston to Shrewsbury onto Wrexham through Gobowen.

The meeting organised by North Shropshire MP Owen Paterson will see representatives from Virgin Rail, Arriva Trains and Network Rail attending, as well as Susan Jones MP, Ian Lucas MP, Glyn Davies MP and Daniel Kawczynski MP.

In December Virgin Trains marked the first year of their direct service from Shropshire to London.

Journey numbers from Shrewsbury, Wellington and Telford Central grew by 19%, an additional 30k journeys were made to and from London in the last twelve months.