Virgin Trains to stock fresh local milk

Virgin Trains has agreed a deal with Enterprise Foods to stock regionally sourced fresh milk on all of its trains. The move will increase the business cost of fresh milk by 8%, but will be implemented in a bid to support British dairy farming.

The fresh milk will be sourced from dairies that run closely along the West Coast Mainline, such as Mortons in Liverpool and Yester Farm in Edinburgh, a family run farm which strives to keep food miles low by completing the entire production process on site, from milking through to pasteurisation.

The Yester farm also prides itself on giving the cows the freedom to graze on lush pasture in summer as well as having specially designed sheds to house them in the winter.

Simon McCreery, managing director of Yester Farm says, “Partnering with a large organisation like Virgin Trains to deliver regional produce to customers is really exciting. We know that supplying on such a scale whilst remaining environmentally friendly is difficult and it’s testament to Virgin Trains’ ethos that they’ve made this move to support local farmers.”