Jump to content
Main menu
Main menu
move to sidebar
hide
Navigation
Main page
Recent changes
Random page
Help about MediaWiki
Special pages
Niidae Wiki
Search
Search
Appearance
Create account
Log in
Personal tools
Create account
Log in
Pages for logged out editors
learn more
Contributions
Talk
Editing
Mobico Group
(section)
Page
Discussion
English
Read
Edit
View history
Tools
Tools
move to sidebar
hide
Actions
Read
Edit
View history
General
What links here
Related changes
Page information
Appearance
move to sidebar
hide
Warning:
You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you
log in
or
create an account
, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.
Anti-spam check. Do
not
fill this in!
====Railway and tram==== =====Railway===== [[File:Upminster station MMB 15 357046.jpg|thumb|[[c2c]] [[British Rail Class 357|Class 357]] at [[Upminster railway station|Upminster]] in September 2010]] [[File:Central Trains 153375 at Lincoln Central 01.jpg|thumb|[[Central Trains]] [[British Rail Class 153|Class 153]] at [[Lincoln railway station|Lincoln]] in May 2004]] Rail franchises formerly operated: * [[Wales & Borders]] passed to [[Arriva Trains Wales]] in December 2003 * [[ScotRail (National Express)|ScotRail]] passed to [[First ScotRail]] in October 2004 * [[Wessex Trains]], absorbed into [[Greater Western franchise]] and passed to [[First Great Western]] in April 2006 * [[West Anglia Great Northern]] split into two parts: West Anglia services transferred to [[National Express East Anglia]] April 2004, Great Northern services passed to [[First Capital Connect]] in April 2006 * In November 2007 several franchises were lost in a general restructure: **[[Central Trains]] split between [[CrossCountry]], [[East Midlands Trains]] and [[London Midland]] **[[Midland Mainline (train operating company)|Midland Mainline]] absorbed into [[East Midlands Trains]] franchise **[[Silverlink]] split between London Midland and [[London Overground Rail Operations|London Overground]] * [[Gatwick Express]] incorporated into [[Southern (train operating company)|Southern]] franchise in June 2008 * [[National Express East Coast]] passed to [[Directly Operated Railways]] in November 2009 * [[National Express East Anglia]] (including [[Stansted Express]] service) passed to [[Greater Anglia]] in February 2012 * [[c2c]] operated from May 1996 until sold to [[Trenitalia]] in February 2017<ref>{{cite web |url = http://www.nationalexpressgroup.com/newsmedia/corporate-news/2017/acquisition-of-c2c-franchise-by-trenitalia/ |title = Acquisition of c2c franchise by Trenitalia |publisher = National Express |date = 11 January 2017}}</ref> =====Tram===== * [[National Express Midland Metro]] (now [[West Midlands Metro]] tram line), passed to [[Transport for West Midlands]] in 2018. =====London & Continental Railways===== National Express had a 17.5% shareholding in [[London & Continental Railways]] (L&CR) from its formation in September 1994 until it was nationalised by the [[Government of the United Kingdom]] in 2009. L&CR was responsible for building the [[High Speed 1]] project. National Express also held a 40% stake in the Inter-Capital and Regional Rail consortium which held the management contract for the UK arm of the [[Eurostar]] operation, L&CR's subsidiary [[Eurostar International]] from 1998 to 2010.<ref>{{cite news |title=Eurostar restructure sees UK expand rail stake |publisher=AllRailJobs.co.uk |url=http://www.allrailjobs.co.uk/article/eurostar-restructure-sees-uk-expand-rail-stake-5377.htm |url-status=dead |access-date=22 October 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131023061754/http://www.allrailjobs.co.uk/article/eurostar-restructure-sees-uk-expand-rail-stake-5377.htm |archive-date=23 October 2013 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Annual Report and Accounts 2010 |publisher=National Express Group plc |url=http://www.nationalexpressgroup.com/ar2010/business-review/performance-and-financial-review.html |url-status=dead |access-date=22 October 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131023061517/http://www.nationalexpressgroup.com/ar2010/business-review/performance-and-financial-review.html |archive-date=23 October 2013 }}</ref>
Summary:
Please note that all contributions to Niidae Wiki may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here.
You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see
Encyclopedia:Copyrights
for details).
Do not submit copyrighted work without permission!
Cancel
Editing help
(opens in new window)
Search
Search
Editing
Mobico Group
(section)
Add topic