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Avanti West Coast Class 221 at Crewe in 2024, in a light Avanti ends livery. Virgin Trains West Coast Class 221 at Watford Junction in 2008. Avanti West Coast used the Class 221 units primarily between London Euston, Chester, Wrexham and North Wales. They were also used by a declining number of London Euston to West Midlands services.
A further five moved from CrossCountry to Virgin Trains West Coast in December 2008. CrossCountry removed the tilting equipment from its Class 221s to improve reliability and lower cost of maintenance. [7] On 8 December 2019, all of the West Coast sets passed to Avanti West Coast, the new operator of the West Coast Partnership franchise.
First Trenitalia West Coast Rail, trading as Avanti West Coast, is a British train operating company owned by FirstGroup (70%) and Trenitalia (30%) that operates the West Coast Partnership. During November 2016, the Department for Transport (DfT) announced the InterCity West Coast franchise would be replaced by the West Coast Partnership (WCP).
On that line, as well as between Birmingham and London, only one Avanti train will run each hour, instead of the usual three, during the brief spell of service. Overall, only 70 trains are sure to ...
The biggest rail union has suspended strikes on the West Coast main line for the next two Sundays – but the announcement comes too late for a normal service to run on 19 January.
Rail strikes are back with a vengeance. Passengers on Avanti West Coast face months of disruption. Walk-outs began on 31 December and are set to continue until the late May bank holiday weekend ...
The British Rail Class 805 Evero is a type of bi-mode multiple unit built by Hitachi Rail for Avanti West Coast. Based on the Hitachi A-train design, 13 five-car units were built to replace Class 221s on services between London Euston, Birmingham New Street and stations on the North Wales Coast lines. Their introduction allowed the elimination ...
Avanti West Coast is likely to run about 25 to 30 per cent of its services during the five-month series of strikes by members of the RMT union (Simon Calder) ... Train managers working for Avanti ...