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Places for London, formerly TTL Properties Limited, is the property-owning arm of Transport for London. It was re-branded as Places for London in 2023, as part of a programme of homebuilding. [1] [2] As of 2024, it owns and manages over 5,500 acres (2,200 ha) of land throughout London, making it one of the city's largest landowners. [3] [4] [5]
In 1962 the BTC's bus companies were transferred to the Transport Holding Company. Then in 1968 BET sold its UK bus companies to the Transport Holding Company. Almost all of the UK bus industry was by then owned by the government under the National Bus Company or by local governments. Bus passenger numbers continued to decline in the 1960s.
Arriva UK Trains: 88% 21 July 1996: Network SouthEast (Chiltern Division) CH CrossCountry: New CrossCountry 85% 11 November 2007: Central Trains (Birmingham – Stansted), (Cardiff – Nottingham) Virgin CrossCountry: XC East Midlands Railway: East Midlands Transport UK Group: 83% 18 August 2019
These groups are all focused on transport. Some of them also run rail services, express coach services and overseas transport companies. They are: Arriva. See List of Arriva bus companies; FirstGroup. See List of First UK bus companies; Go-Ahead Group. See List of Go-Ahead bus companies; Mobico Group. See List of Mobico Group UK bus companies ...
The "Big Four" were joint-stock public companies and they continued to run the railway system until 31 December 1947. The growth in road transport during the 1920s and 1930s greatly reduced revenue for the rail companies. Rail companies accused the government of favouring road haulage through the subsidised construction of roads.
Route map of zonal system of the railway services directly managed by Transport for London.Stations only served by National Rail services are not shown in this map.. Rail service fares in Greater London and the surrounding area are calculated in accordance with the London fare zones system managed by Transport for London.
Keolis is the biggest private operator of public transport in France and a major worldwide operator of transport services. As part of the privatisation of British Rail , the Thames Trains franchise was awarded to Victory Rail Holdings, [ 2 ] a company owned by Go-Ahead (65%) and some ex British Rail managers (35%), with operations commencing on ...
Transport for London (TfL) is a local government body responsible for most of the transport network in London, United Kingdom. [2]TfL is the successor organization of the London Passenger Transport Board, which was established in 1933, and several other bodies in the intervening years.