Freight will be squeezed in around passenger services on the East Coast Main Line once the route’s new timetable is introduced. Freight will be squeezed in around passenger services on the East Coast Main Line once the route’s new timetable is introduced. In total there will be an extra 10,000 new passenger services per year on the ECML. Freightliner said it had “worked hard in recent months to minimise the impact of the significant uplift in passenger services” and would still have the paths needed to run services. However, the operator waned: “The timetable has been built around passenger trains, with freight squeezed in around them.