How do you provide a local service on the ECML?

[Bald Rick]

With a good majority being on less monthly wages than normal for many months with being on Furlough

? This isn’t true. A majority of the workforce have not been on furlough.

I wonder if they will try to get extra calls at places like Dunbar in the coming years given the reduction in LNER services there, or northwards to Stirling?

The money is London - Edinburgh. And they want to do it as quickly as possible. Having to buy an extra unit to get to Stirling wouldn’t be remotely profitable.