Virgin Trains (legally known as West Coast Trains Limited) is a train operating company in the United Kingdom controlled by Virgin Group. It operates long-distance passenger services on the West Coast Main Line (WCML) between London, the West Midlands, North West England, North Wales and Scotland. The company is 49% owned by Stagecoach Group.
Virgin Trains was formed to take advantage of the privatisation of British Rail in the mid-1990s. It was ...
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Virgin Trains (legally known as West Coast Trains Limited) is a train operating company in the United Kingdom controlled by Virgin Group. It operates long-distance passenger services on the West Coast Main Line (WCML) between London, the West Midlands, North West England, North Wales and Scotland. The company is 49% owned by Stagecoach Group.
Virgin Trains was formed to take advantage of the privatisation of British Rail in the mid-1990s. It was initially successful in winning two rail franchises: InterCity West Coast (Virgin West Coast), operating long-distance services on the West Coast Main Line, and InterCity CrossCountry (Virgin CrossCountry), operating a group of long-distance non-London routes centred on Birmingham. The two franchises, though legally and operationally separate, were marketed as a single brand.
The CrossCountry franchise was lost to Arriva group in 2007. Most services were transferred to Arriva, except those between Manchester and Scotland, which went to First...
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