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This was underpinned by a fully managed social media, content, and customer service suite, ensuring that customer queries and media enquiries were handled in real time, and that hours of engaging content were produced on the day, showing potential customers the smooth, convenient reality of a journey by Lumo.

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Celebrities and influencers, including LumoвЂ™s Diversity & Inclusion Ambassador, Harvey Price, were invited to trial the service and tell their fans about the experience. This involved hosting media and politicians on a special inaugural Lumo journey to experience the new service. On launch day, we undertook a full-on multimedia blitz. This drove pre-launch ticket sales and ensured that a buzz was built around the brand and service before the first trains departed London and Edinburgh. This helped raise awareness of the new service, introduced the brand to consumers, generated support from political stakeholders, and communicated the core messages of environmentally-friendly travel at an unbeatable price-point. Before we pre-launched the brand to media and politicians via our always-on press office, which developed a consisted drumbeat of coverage for Lumo, utilising a calendar of key political dates and regional and national media outreach.

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We worked with the Lumo team to develop a full suite of brand tools including narrative, messaging, and tone of voice. The route started in October and all Lumo trains on. Everything we did was focused on these two simple messages вЂ“ to demonstrate LumoвЂ™s environmental advantages compared to flying, and its cost advantages for consumers when compared to competing air operators or petrol costs. Lumo is owned by the travel business FirstGroup and runs trains on the East Coast Main Line between London Kings Cross and Edinburgh Waverley. Our communications strategy focused on two pillars вЂ“ cheaper and greener.

The Solution Developing a truly integrated, 360-degree communications campaign, which left nothing to chance. All of this was on top of demonstrating to political stakeholders that this sort of project is the future of delivering on-target, on-budget rail projects which are fit for passengers and the planet. Grayling was tasked with working with Lumo to build its consumer-facing brand proposition, introducing the new company to government, stakeholders and passengers, establishing and running its external and internal communications channels, and helping to ensure the best-possible ticket sales in the lead-up to launch.

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Its license was granted on the basis that the company would actively work to persuade travellers currently choosing to make this journey via air to take the train instead вЂ“ a big ask, when the company was brand-new, when customers had never heard of themвЂ¦and when the UK was still coping with the impact of COVID-19. Lumo is a new open access rail operator operating a fleet of 100% electric trains, which was given a license to run passenger routes on the East Coast Main Line from London to Scotland.