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In August 2019, it was announced that the Inter-City West Coast franchise had been awarded to Avanti West Coast, thus confirming that Virgin Trains would cease to operate trains after 7 December 2019. [45] [46] The final Virgin Trains service was the 21:42 service from London Euston to Wolverhampton arriving at 23:45.
In May 2024, Virgin announced it had lodged an application with the ORR to operate services on the WCML from London Euston to Birmingham, Liverpool, Rochdale and Glasgow from December 2025. [ 10 ] [ 11 ] [ 12 ] Services would initially be operated by former Avanti West Coast Class 221s Bombardier Voyagers , before Electric Multiple Units would ...
Virgin CrossCountry Class 221 in May 2006. In the mid-1990s the Virgin Rail Group was formed to bid for passenger franchises as part of the privatisation of British Rail.It successfully bid to operate the CrossCountry and InterCity West Coast franchises, with Virgin CrossCountry and Virgin West Coast commencing in March 1997. [2]
Today, Virgin debuted Beam, a new app-powered entertainment service available initially on West Coast Pendolino and East Coast routes, with all Voyager trains catching up by September.
During July 2008, Virgin was awarded a contract by the DfT to manage the introduction of 106 extra Class 390 Pendolino carriages. [28] [29] Virgin Trains made further enhancements to the Pendolino fleet, [30] perhaps most noticeable change was the 21 nine-car units each had one first class carriage converted to standard class. [31] [32] [33]
Brightline Holdings pulled out of a deal after saying the ‘Virgin brand’ had stopped being a ‘brand of international high repute’, a judge heard. Virgin firm wins High Court fight with ...
All public transport on the Dutch mainland (trains, metros, trams, buses, ferries, ships, etc.). [14] The OV-chipkaart was launched in 2002 [15] but only fully replaced the national strippenkaart of the 1980s for buses, trams, and metro trains in 2011, [16] and the paper ticket system for rail travel in July 2014. [17]
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