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The Rail Delivery Group is the coordinating body of the train operating companies in Great Britain and owns the National Rail brand, which uses the former British Rail double-arrow logo and organises the common ticketing structure. Many of the train operating companies are in fact parts of larger companies which operate multiple franchises.
This is an incomplete list of the world's railway operating companies listed alphabetically by continent and country. This list includes companies operating both now and in the past. In some countries, the railway operating bodies are not companies, but are government departments or authorities.
A rolling stock company (ROSCO) or rolling stock leasing company owns and maintains railway engines and carriages which are leased to train operating companies who operate the trains. Rolling stock companies have been criticized as rentier capitalist, in that they add little value to the end product versus direct ownership of the trains ...
Hull Trains — FirstGroup: 92% 25 September 2002 — HT London North Eastern Railway: Franchise InterCity East Coast: DfT Operator: 91% 24 June 2018: Virgin Trains East Coast: GR Lumo: Open access — FirstGroup — 25 October 2021 — LD Merseyrail: Merseytravel contract Merseyrail Serco-Abellio: 90% 20 July 2003: Arriva Trains Merseyside: ME ...
The current RDG has its roots in two preceding organisations, the Association of Train Operating Companies (ATOC), and the Rail Delivery Group. The original Rail Delivery Group was established in 2011 to formulate policy and undertake communications on behalf of the entire railway industry, its membership having comprised all passenger and ...
National Rail (NR) is the trading name licensed for use by the Rail Delivery Group, a group representing passenger train operating companies (TOCs) of England, Scotland, and Wales. The TOCs run the passenger services previously provided by the British Railways Board , from 1965 using the brand name British Rail .
In 2019, government funding for train operating companies amounted to £4.1 billion, paying access charges to use the rail network, £2.1 billion and freight £58 million. In 2019, it spent £3.1 billion on renewals (restoring existing infrastructure back to how it was when new) and £3.2 billion on enhancements, with the rest spent on ...
SE Trains Limited, [4] trading as Southeastern, is a British train operating company owned by DfT Operator for the Department for Transport, [5] that took over operating the South Eastern franchise in South East England from privately owned London & South Eastern Railway (which also traded as Southeastern) on 17 October 2021.