Date: 04/05/2013

A FRIDAY alcohol ban is being trialled on an East Coast morning train between Aberdeen and Newcastle after a spate of anti-social behaviour. Passengers will be forbidden from drinking alcohol on the 9.52am service from Aberdeen from next Friday. The trial will run for four weeks, from May 10 until May 31, and will only apply to a section of the route running between Aberdeen and Newcastle a journey of roughly four hours. The service is popular with stag and hen parties travelling from Scotland to Newcastle for a long weekend, with the same route also used on Friday evenings by oil workers travelling home for their two-week shore leave. A spokesman for East Coast, the main operator on the East Coast mainline that connects Aberdeen and Edinburgh to London King's Cross, said it was taking action after a number of recent incidents where rowdy passengers had caused disruption to other travellers.

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Passengers will be forbidden from drinking alcohol on the 9.52am service from Aberdeen from next Friday.

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