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First Great Western previously leased 14 Class 180 Adelante units, operating on the Great Western Main Line, but following technical issues they were transferred elsewhere. [ 106 ] [ 107 ] In 2012, five units were returned to First Great Western to operate weekday services on the Cotswold Line , allowing class 165 and 166 units to be ...
Four bidders pre-qualified for the 2013 Great Western passenger franchise: clockwise from top left, Arriva, Stagecoach, First and National Express Expressions of interest in bidding for the new franchise were called for in December 2011 [12] and in March 2012 it was announced that Arriva UK Trains, FirstGroup, National Express and Stagecoach had been shortlisted to bid.
A line-up of First Great Western trains at Plymouth in 2018. During December 1997, the company was renamed FirstGroup; [2] this change was due to the company's entry in February 1996 into Britain's recently privatised railways, having a 24.5% shareholding in Great Western Holdings that won the Great Western and North Western franchises, and a 100% shareholding in First Great Eastern that ran ...
First Great Western Link (FGWL) [1] was a train operating company in England owned by FirstGroup that operated the Thames franchise from April 2004 until March 2006.
Great Western Railway, a UK railway company nationalised in 1948 and that has since lent its name to: Great Western Main Line, a principal passenger and freight rail route; Great Western Railway (train operating company), traded as Great Western Trains until 1998, then First Great Western until 2015
The nameplate on First Great Western power car 43185 Several locomotives have been given the name Great Western . The first was an Iron Duke class broad-gauge locomotive built in 1846, the first locomotive entirely constructed at the company's Swindon Works .
Wessex Trains [1] was a train operating company in the United Kingdom owned by National Express that operated the Wessex Trains franchise from October 2001 until March 2006, when the franchise was merged with the Great Western and Thames Valley franchises to form the Greater Western franchise.
First Great Western, now Great Western Railway, a British train operating company; Flexural gravity wave This page was last edited on 16 ...