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System map. Great Western Railway (GWR) is a British train operating company owned by FirstGroup that provides services in the Greater Western franchise area. It manages 197 stations and its trains call at over 270. GWR operates long-distance inter-city services along the Great Western Main Line to and from the West of England and South Wales ...
31 May 2015 (as TfL Rail) Greater Anglia (Liverpool Street – Shenfield) Great Western Railway (Paddington – Reading) Heathrow Connect. Heathrow Express (Heathrow Central – Heathrow T4 shuttle) XR. Eurostar. Open access. —.
A line-up of First Great Western trains at Plymouth in October 2009. During December 1997, the company was renamed FirstGroup; [2] this change was due to the company's entry in February 1996 into Britain's recently privatised railways, having a 24.5% shareholding in Great Western Holdings that won the Great Western and North Western franchises, and a 100% shareholding in First Great Eastern ...
Breng. Keolis Nederland. Qbuzz, operates on the MerwedeLingelijn. A few Dutch railway stations are served, even for journeys within the country, by foreign railway companies under the responsibility of NS. These companies are: DB Regio, including DB Regionalbahn Westfalen and DB Euregiobahn. Prignitzer Eisenbahn, part of Arriva Germany.
Rail transport in Europe has diverse technological standards, operating concepts, and infrastructures. Common features are the widespread use of standard-gauge rail, high operational safety and a high share of electrification. Electrified railway networks operate at many different voltages, both AC and DC, varying from 750 to 25,000 volts, and ...
Gatwick Express, the third railway service to be franchised in 1996. Passenger rail franchising in Great Britain is the system of contracting the operation of the passenger services on the railways of Great Britain to private companies, which has been in effect since 1996 and was greatly altered in 2020, with rail franchising being effectively abolished in May 2021.
talk. edit. The Great Western Railway (GWR) was a British railway company that linked London with the southwest, west and West Midlands of England and most of Wales. It was founded in 1833, received its enabling act of Parliament on 31 August 1835 and ran its first trains in 1838 with the initial route completed between London and Bristol in 1841.
Website. www.southwesternrailway.com. South Western Railway (SWR; legal name First MTR South Western Trains Limited, [3]) is a British train operating company owned by FirstGroup (70%) and MTR Corporation (30%) that operates the South Western franchise. On 20 August 2017, SWR took over South Western franchise operations from the previous ...