Rail bosses have back tracked after passengers were in uproar over their plans to ditch a busy Manchester - London commuter service and run it as a 'ghost train' with only staff allowed on board

Rail bosses have done a u-turn on bizarre plans to turn a busy commuter service into a ‘ghost train’ - which only staff would have been allowed to travel on.

Passengers who faced losing the fast service were in uproar after hearing they were going to lose the service which gets them to London in under two hours and before 9am. But 24 hours later the plan for the Avanti West Coast fast service to set off from Manchester Piccadilly at 07:00 on four weekdays heading for Euston, with no passengers, has been ditched.

The Office of Rail and Road (ORR) had wanted Avanti's weekday 7am service from M

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