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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.
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.
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.
It directly owns approximately 623 miles (1,003 km) of this track and operates an additional 132 miles of track; the remaining mileage is over rail lines owned by other railroad companies. While most track speeds are limited to 79 mph (127 km/h) or less, several lines have been upgraded to support top speeds of 110 mph (180 km/h), and parts of ...
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 company was bought from Exponent by KKR in January 2015. [11] In August 2015, the company announced it had changed its name from thetrainline.com to Trainline. [12] In 2016, it acquired Captain Train and re-branded it as Trainline EU. [13] [14] In June 2019, after an initial public offering the company floated on the London Stock Exchange. [15]
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 .
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 ...