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...But it was replaced by a £17bn hybrid model that included a new line from Manchester to Marsden near Huddersfield, with upgrades to the existing Transpennine line from there to Leeds....
...The announcement is part of a series of stoppages by train drivers who voted for their first national strike since 1995 earlier in the summer....
...But it added that it would not be extending a further contract to London and Southeastern Railway Ltd, the operator co-owned by Go Ahead and Keolis UK....
...Meanwhile, on Tuesday the government said it had called TransPennine Express, also operated by FirstGroup, for urgent talks over recent service cancellations....
...When the 7.35am rebranded Northern Trains service departs from Darlington to Bishop Auckland on Sunday morning it will mark the first time since the privatisation of Britain’s railways in the mid-1990s that...
...first phase from London to Birmingham as HS2....
...Tellingly, it calculates that its South Western and Transpennine franchises which lost £200m would have been profitable under this new mechanism....
...Recently filed accounts show the line running between London, the West Country and Wales earned the £40m dividend in the year to March 2018, according to figures first reported in the Sunday Times....
...As well as South Western, FirstGroup also runs Great Western Railway and TransPennine Express franchises....
...Govia is a joint venture between Go-Ahead Group of the UK and Keolis of France....
...In his first interview since taking up his role in May, Mr McMahon said the industry had been “shocked” and “chastened” by the criticism it received from government, regulators and the public....
...Only 77 per cent of Northern’s trains ran on time between May 27 and June 23, and 71 per cent on Transpennine Express, which is operated by First Group....
...Mr Verwer’s first task will be to sort out the timetable....
...Separately, FirstGroup has taken a provision of £106m for the rest of its TransPennine Express franchise....
...GTR, which runs the Thameslink, Great Northern, Southern and Gatwick Express airport services, is a subsidiary of Govia, which is a joint venture between the Go-Ahead Group and French company Keolis....
...With reports that the future of the Transpennine and Greater Anglia franchises are also in doubt, Mr Grayling faces the ultimate ignominy, as the Tory transport secretary who put the party’s rail privatisation...
...First Thameslink, then the TransPennine line The future of the rail system is on display 30 miles to the south of the London Bridge Area Signalling Centre, at Three Bridges....
...avoided if the Department for Transport had given greater thought to passengers in its design of the franchise awarded to Govia Thameslink Railway, a joint venture between the UK’s Go-Ahead and France’s Keolis...
...Whether they can force a rethink over electrification of the Transpennine route is the first major test of their power....
...First Trenitalia West Coast is a joint venture between First Group of the UK and Trenitalia, Italy’s state-owned operator....
Some have claimed the franchise could be stripped from Govia Thameslink
...Go-Ahead owns 65 per cent of Govia, a joint venture with Keolis of France, which operates Southern services as part of the Govia Thameslink Railway (GTR) and has been the focus of passenger ire following...
...Conductors will now go on strike from Tuesday to Thursday, the first of five scheduled three-day strikes stretching into December....
...Southern is part of the wider Thameslink franchise, which is held by Govia, a joint venture between the UK’s Go-Ahead Group and France’s Keolis....
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