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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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    Virgin Trains East Coast (VTEC) (legal name East Coast Main Line Company Limited) was a train operating company in the United Kingdom that operated the...
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    (51%) Virgin Trains East Coast: train operating company, supersed by London North Eastern Railway in June 2018 (10%) Virgin Trains USA: train operating...
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    Brightline (redirect from Virgin Trains USA)
    announced that Virgin Group would become a minority investor in the railroad and would provide rights to rebrand the service as Virgin Trains USA. However...
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    (WCML). The trains of the original batch were the last to be assembled at Alstom's Washwood Heath plant, before its closure in 2005. The trains were subsequently...
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    franchise held by a separate legal entity, the company traded under the Virgin Trains brand. Operations commenced on 5 January 1997 as part of the privatisation...
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    Transport (DfT) in 2006, incorporating elements of both the Central Trains and the Virgin CrossCountry franchises, ahead of its invitation to tender on October...
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  • Virgin Trains may refer to: Brightline, a rail system in Florida, United States that was previously known as Virgin Trains USA Virgin Rail Group, holding...
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  • selected South West Trains services. It was later extended to some Virgin Trains services (since withdrawn) and to selected East Midlands Trains services. In...
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  • replaced by the Virgin Trains name. It also bid unsuccessfully for the Thameslink, Thames Trains and West Anglia Great Northern franchises. Virgin Group initially...
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    InterCity East Coast franchise, after the previous privately owned operator Virgin Trains East Coast (VTEC) returned it to the government following sustained...
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  • Virgin Trains is a prospective open access operator proposing to operate services on the West Coast Main Line between London, Birmingham, Liverpool, Rochdale...
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    (57/0) and two to perform passenger operations. During April 2002, Virgin Trains West Coast signed a deal with the rolling stock lessor Porterbrook for...
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    Virgin West Coast with brand new tilting trains. Following negotiations with several manufacturers, Virgin placed an order with Alstom/Fiat Ferroviaria...
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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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    freight trains alike. Following the privatisation of British Rail, the type has served with various operators, including Greater Anglia, Virgin Trains and...
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    Silverlink (redirect from Silverlink Trains)
    older Silverlink trains, and a longer journey. Silverlink countered this with the temporary usage of ex-Virgin stock, still in Virgin colours. The Strategic...
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    during the mid 1990s, all but one of the Class 87s were transferred to Virgin Trains. Under this operator, the type continued their passenger duties until...
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    operations involved the running of two trains per day in each direction on most week days; this was expanded to five trains per day by early 2022. Onboard catering...
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    passenger rail franchises during the privatisation of British Rail. The Virgin Trains brand operated the InterCity West Coast franchise from 1997 to 2019...
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  • railway system of Great Britain, a train operating company (TOC) is a railway undertaking operating passenger trains under the collective National Rail...
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    Northern Trains, trading as Northern, is a British train operating company owned by DfT OLR Holdings for the Department for Transport (DfT), after the...
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    Welsh & Scottish (EWS), Class 47s from Riviera Trains, and Class 57s from Virgin Trains to haul Riviera Trains' Mark 2 carriages on shuttles from Sunderland...
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    the use of its fleet, hiring its locomotives to charter train operators and also to Virgin Trains, to supplement their unreliable fleet. Three locomotives...
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    Arriva Trains Wales (ATW; Welsh: Trenau Arriva Cymru) was a British train operating company owned by Arriva UK Trains that operated the Wales & Borders...
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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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  • Virgin Trains ExpressCoach (formerly Virgin CoachLink) was a coach brand in England owned by the Virgin Rail Group. As part of Virgin Rail Group's winning...
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    tilting trains, initially with British Rail's APT and latterly the Class 390 Pendolino trains constructed by Alstom and introduced by Virgin Trains in 2003...
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    Angel Trains International during 2008 and was subsequently rebranded as Alpha Trains. In addition to its British Rail-era inventory, Angel Trains acquired...
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  • year. The UK first served the drink on Virgin Atlantic flights, on-board shops on Virgin Trains and also at Virgin Cinemas. The Gulliver's Kingdom chain...
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