Luton Dart: ‘the most expensive train in Britain’ opens for business

The airport’s much-anticipated £290m 1.25-mile shuttle service to the rail station will cost passengers £4.90 a trip

Seven years in the making, Luton airport’s long-anticipated light rail link finally opens to passengers next week – a swift connection that has, somewhat unfairly, been billed as the most expensive train in Britain.

As airport bosses promised, the gleaming new £290m Dart shuttle, accessed straight out of the adjacent Luton Parkway rail station, is a significant upgrade on the existing bus journey up the A1081, bringing the airport terminal to around a half-hour journey from central London on the fastest trains.