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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.
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]
The company was established in 1980 as part of the Chessie System and Seaboard Coast Line Industries merger. The various railroads of the former Chessie System and Seaboard Coast Line Industries that are now owned by CSX Corporation were eventually merged into a single line in 1986 and it became known as CSX Transportation. CSX Corporation ...
A line-up of First Great Western trains at Plymouth in 2018. 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 that ran ...
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 .
First Greater Western, trading as 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.