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South Western Railway (SWR; legal name First MTR South Western Trains Limited, [3]) is a British train operating company owned by FirstGroup (70%) and MTR Corporation (30%) that operates the South Western franchise. On 20 August 2017, SWR took over South Western franchise operations from the previous franchisee South West Trains.
South Western is a railway franchise for the provision of passenger services from London Waterloo to destinations in Surrey, Hampshire, Somerset, Dorset, Berkshire, Wiltshire and Devon on the South West, Portsmouth Direct and West of England main lines.
The South Western Railway (SWR) is one of the 19 railway zones of Indian Railways, headquartered at Hubballi in the Indian state of Karnataka. [1] SWR was created from carving out the routes from Southern Railways , South Central Railways and Central Railways in 2003.
The South West Main Line [1] (SWML) is a 143-mile (230 km) major railway line between Waterloo station in central London and Weymouth on the south coast of England. A predominantly passenger line, it serves many commuter areas including south western suburbs of London and the conurbations based on Southampton and Bournemouth.
The South Western Railway Co. Ltd., Also called Knysna Forest Railway, was a 2 ft (610 mm) narrow gauge forest railway in the southern Cape Province in South Africa. The line connected the port of Knysna with sawmills in the Tsitsikamma Forest and had a length of 31 kilometers. The railway was in operation between 1907 and 1949.
Pages in category "Railway stations served by South Western Railway" The following 196 pages are in this category, out of 196 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The area of operation was the former South Western division of Network SouthEast, and was also roughly that of the pre-1923 London & South Western Railway (excluding everything west of Exeter). As part of the privatisation of British Rail, SWT was taken over by Stagecoach. In 2004, the franchise was retained by Stagecoach when re-tendered.
The Caledonian Railway built a line from Strathaven, where there were extensive mineral deposits, to Darvel; it opened on 1 May 1905. [ 7 ] [ page needed ] There were sensitivities about the CR entering Ayrshire due to a non-encroachment agreement, and the authorising Act gave the G&SWR the option of purchasing the section from Darvel to the ...