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It looks like the future of GNER’s new web site and booking engine is safe. If you visit nationalexpresseastcoast.co.uk at the moment all you get as an ‘under construction’ notice, however if you look up the IP address of the site you will see that it is the same as the GNER site. Also tickets.nationalexpresseastcoast.co.uk currently displays the GNER booking engine. Presumably from midnight all they need to do is change a setting and the new National Express brand will appear in place of GNER. It’ll be a shame to see the GNER brand disappear but at least the new website will be used for more than a couple of weeks.

UPDATE: new site is live at www.nationalexpresseastcoast.com (.co.uk has not been set up yet - looks like the .com form will be the official one).
nationalexpresseastcoast.co.uk (and .com) has an address of 157.203.42.162 and is registered to:

National Express Group PLC
75 Davies Street
London
W1K 5HT

gner.co.uk also has address 157.203.42.162 and is registered to:

Sea Containers Railway Services Limited
Sea Containers House
20-22 Upper Ground
London
SE1 9PF

www.nationalexpress.com has a different address to these two websites and is currently the portal for the National Express coach business. I’ve read somewhere that the plan is to have all National Express companies operating under the nationalexpress.com portal, however, I doubt they’d be able to easily integrate the rail and coach booking engines so easily so I can imagine that they will keep the East Coast site separate for now and aim for the integration once their other rail companies are also branded National Express in 2008.

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