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List of Train Operating Companies on the National Rail website Archived 4 January 2006 at the Wayback Machine; Map of Train Operating Companies on the National Rail website; Barry Doe's colour-coded map showing operator(s) on each route (Large PDF)
List Train name Company/ies Journey endpoints Dates operated 21st Century Limited [1] [2]: Grand Central: London King's Cross – Sunderland (one way only) : 2008 [2] – 2010 [citation needed]
Pages in category "Train operating companies in the United Kingdom" The following 22 pages are in this category, out of 22 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
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.
Post-privatisation companies: From 1994, a number of privately owned companies have operated and maintained 'mainline' railway track and trains. Minor railways : Some small railways were never considered part of the national 'mainline' network, and continued an independent existence.
In some countries, the railway operating bodies are not companies, but are government departments or authorities. Particularly in many European countries beginning in the late-1980s, with privatizations and the separation of the track ownership and management from running the trains, there are now many track-only companies and train-only companies.
CrossCountry (legal name XC Trains Limited [2]) is a British train operating company owned by Arriva UK Trains, operating the current CrossCountry franchise.. The CrossCountry franchise was restructured by the Department for Transport (DfT) in 2006, incorporating elements of both the Central Trains and the Virgin CrossCountry franchises, ahead of its invitation to tender on October of that year.
Rail transport can be found in every theme park resort property owned or licensed by Disney Experiences, one of the three business segments of the Walt Disney Company. [3] [4] The origins of Disney theme park rail transport can be traced back to Walt Disney himself and his personal fondness for railroads, who insisted that they be included in the first Disney park, the original Disneyland (a ...