Agenda: Are We About to Embark On a New Railway Age? ; As Rail Franchises Change Hands Next Month, Peter Cousins, of Railfuture, Explains Why the West Midlands Could Be Returning to the Age of the Train
Birmingham Post › October 03, 2007
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November 11, 2007, will bring with it the biggest changes to the rail network around the West Midlands since privatisation more than a decade ago.
Go-Via will inherit most of the West Midlands' local services previously operated by Central Trains. Arriva will be taking on a new franchise consisting of the majority of the Virgin Cross Country network and some Central Trains long-distance services. Both operators will inherit a buoyant market with growing passenger numbers.See the full content of this document
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Agenda: Are We About to Embark On a New Railway Age? ; As Rail Franchises Change Hands Next Month, Peter Cousins, of Railfuture, Explains Why the West Midlands Could Be Returning to the Age of the Train
At the same time a new operator, Wrexham and Shropshire Railways, will be preparing to launch a new service (probably in 2008) from North Wales, Shrewsbury and Telford to London.
Punctuality has improved remarkably.In the 1980s and 1990s local services around the West Midlands were operated by trains which were being built at the ...See the full content of this document
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