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In August 2019, it was announced that the Inter-City West Coast franchise had been awarded to Avanti West Coast, thus confirming that Virgin Trains would cease to operate trains after 7 December 2019. [45] [46] The final Virgin Trains service was the 21:42 service from London Euston to Wolverhampton arriving at 23:45.
In May 2024, Virgin announced it had lodged an application with the ORR to operate services on the WCML from London Euston to Birmingham, Liverpool, Rochdale and Glasgow from December 2025. [ 10 ] [ 11 ] [ 12 ] Services would initially be operated by former Avanti West Coast Class 221s Bombardier Voyagers , before Electric Multiple Units would ...
However, in August 2020 Brightline sought to terminate the deal, claiming that the Virgin Trains brand was no longer of value after the loss of its InterCity West Coast franchise. [18] Virgin sued Brightline for breach of contract. [19] In October 2023 Virgin won in the High Court of Justice in London and was awarded $115 million in damages ...
Today, Virgin debuted Beam, a new app-powered entertainment service available initially on West Coast Pendolino and East Coast routes, with all Voyager trains catching up by September.
Brightline Holdings pulled out of a deal after saying the ‘Virgin brand’ had stopped being a ‘brand of international high repute’, a judge heard. Virgin firm wins High Court fight with ...
A British judge ruled in favor of Richard Branson's Virgin group on Thursday in its lawsuit against a U.S. train company that terminated a licensing agreement and claimed the Virgin brand was no ...
During July 2008, Virgin was awarded a contract by the DfT to manage the introduction of 106 extra Class 390 Pendolino carriages. [28] [29] Virgin Trains made further enhancements to the Pendolino fleet, [30] perhaps most noticeable change was the 21 nine-car units each had one first class carriage converted to standard class. [31] [32] [33]
Avantix Mobile machines were first adopted by TOCs owned at the time by National Express; however, they are now in use across all National Rail-controlled TOCs with the exception of Merseyrail who continued to issue paper tickets until TVMs had been installed at the last few stations on the Wirral line, which did not have any ticket issuing ...