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The Palatine was the name given to an express passenger train, introduced by the London, Midland and Scottish Railway in 1938: the 10.00 from Manchester Central to London St Pancras and the return working, the 16.30 from St Pancras to Manchester Central.
The initial plan was for "An Act for making a Railway from the Manchester and Birmingham Railway at Cheadle in the County of Chester to or near to the Ambergate Station of the Midlands Railway in the County of Derby, to be called "The Manchester, Buxton, Matlock, and Midlands Junction Railway" [1] The bill received royal assent as the Manchester, Buxton, Matlock and Midlands Junction Railway ...
During December 2015, FirstGroup was awarded the franchise of TransPennine Express. The effective start date of the new franchise was 1 April 2016 and it was scheduled to run until 31 March 2023, with an option to extend for two years. [10] [11] [12] The company remained First TransPennine Express, but branded the services as TransPennine Express.
The Manchester and Wigan Railway was a railway in North West England, opened in 1864 and closed to passengers on 3 May 1969, which was part of the London and North Western Railway before the Grouping of 1923.
[17] [18] [19] In Manchester, the project interfaces with the Northern Hub. There were up to 50 million passenger journeys per year on this line pre COVID-19 on fast (including TransPennine Express), semi-fast and stopping trains, as well as freight trains. The existing passenger service is widely accepted as being very unsatisfactory in terms ...
First TransPennine Express [1] was a British train operating company jointly owned by FirstGroup and Keolis which operated the TransPennine Express franchise. First TransPennine Express ran regular Express regional railway services between the major cities of Northern England as well as Scotland .
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Express passenger services on the line are operated by East Midlands Railway (EMR). The line is electrified between St Pancras and Wigston, south of Leicester , and the section south of Bedford forms a branch of the northern half of the Thameslink network , with a semi-fast service to Brighton and other suburban services.