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    West Midlands Trains (WMT) is a British train operating company. It operates passenger trains on the West Midlands franchise between London and the English...
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    East Midlands Trains (EMT) was a British train operating company owned by the transport group Stagecoach, which operated the East Midlands franchise between...
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    British Rail Class 196 (category Train-related introductions in 2022)
    Rail Class 196 Civity is a class of diesel multiple unit built for West Midlands Trains by Spanish rolling stock manufacturer CAF. A total of 26 units have...
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    current operator of the East Midlands franchise. Originally owned by Abellio, EMR took over operations from East Midlands Trains (EMT) on 18 August 2019,...
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    British Rail Class 730 (category Train-related introductions in 2023)
    Aventra is a type of electric multiple unit passenger train built by Alstom for West Midlands Trains. Two separate batches of the fleet were built; 48 three-car...
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    British Rail Class 172 (category Train-related introductions in 2010)
    trains in not having end gangways. These trains have a maximum speed of 100 mph (160 km/h). The Class 172/2s and 172/3s used by West Midlands Trains resemble...
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    Alstom Aventra (category Train-related introductions in 2017)
    London Overground, Greater Anglia, South Western Railway, c2c and West Midlands Trains. The Aventra was developed by Bombardier Transportation principally...
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    British Rail Class 350 (category Train-related introductions in 2005)
    passenger train built by Siemens Transportation Systems to its Desiro design between 2004 and 2014. All 87 are now operated by West Midlands Trains, having...
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    British Rail Class 323 (category Train-related introductions in 1994)
    2017, West Midlands Trains took over the West Midlands franchise, and the 323s passed to that company. In mid-to-late 2019, a number of West Midlands Trains'...
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    Cheddington, Leighton Buzzard and Bletchley. West Midlands Trains also operates an hourly stopping train on the Marston Vale Line from Bletchley to Bedford...
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  • trading as West Midlands Trains commenced operating the West Midlands franchise. In May 2018, the Government announced that Virgin Trains East Coast's...
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    Stagecoach South Western Trains Limited, trading as South West Trains (SWT), was an English train operating company owned by Stagecoach, which operated...
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    Transport for West Midlands (TfWM) is the public body responsible for co-ordinating transport services in the West Midlands metropolitan county in England...
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    with a split) and local trains in the East Midlands were combined with Midland Mainline services to form East Midlands Trains The Cardiff – Birmingham...
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    Wolverhampton. It includes all railway stations in the West Midlands that currently have regular timetabled train services, as well as certain stations outside...
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  • TfL West Midlands Trains, (85% shareholding alongside Mitsui), operates the West Midlands franchise under contract to the DfT and Transport for West Midlands...
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    British Rail Class 230 (category Train-related introductions in 2019)
    two or three cars. During October 2017, West Midlands Trains announced that it would procure three 2-car D-Trains for the Marston Vale line and the first...
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    London Underground pre-refurbishment. The first full D-Train order came from West Midlands Trains, which procured three 2-car Class 230 DEMUs for use on...
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    transferred from West Midlands Trains to Northern Trains. In August 2023, Northern issued a tender to acquire a contract for up to 450 new trains to replace...
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    Birmingham Snow Hill railway station (category Railway stations served by West Midlands Trains)
    stay in situ. The station is managed by West Midlands Trains and services are provided by West Midlands Trains and Chiltern Railways. There is a small...
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    Jewellery Quarter station (category Railway stations served by West Midlands Trains)
    England. The station is served by West Midlands Trains (who operate the station), Chiltern Railways, and West Midlands Metro. The station is set at the...
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    London Midland (category Companies based in Birmingham, West Midlands)
    were merged with the Central Trains services around Birmingham to create a new West Midlands franchise. The Central Trains franchise had also been selected...
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    Virgin Trains (VT) (legal name West Coast Trains Limited) was a train operating company in the United Kingdom owned by Virgin Rail Group, a joint venture...
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    British Rail Class 170 (category Train-related introductions in 1998)
    168 and Class 171 units. These trains are currently in use with CrossCountry, East Midlands Railway, Northern Trains and ScotRail. The Class 170 diesel...
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  • Franchise, operated by West Midlands Trains since December 2017 This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title West Midlands Franchise. If an...
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  • companies operating trains in the United Kingdom, including the operators of franchised passenger services, officially referred to as train operating companies...
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    High Speed Trains were hired from National Express East Coast in 2008. High Speed Trains were hired from East Coast and East Midlands Trains on a number...
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    (Virgin Trains) Telford Central (West Midlands Railway) Warrington Bank Quay (Virgin Trains) Wilmslow (Northern) Wolverhampton (West Midlands Railway)...
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    Basingstoke and Southampton Central. From May 2018, the company West Midlands Trains began operating an hourly local service to Coventry, calling at the...
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    Birmingham International railway station (category Railway stations served by West Midlands Trains)
    services on Sundays running via Crewe. West Midlands Trains: 4 tph to Birmingham New Street, of which: 2 trains call at Birmingham New Street only, under...
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