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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.
Gatwick Express, the third railway service to be franchised in 1996. Passenger rail franchising in Great Britain is the system of contracting the operation of the passenger services on the railways of Great Britain to private companies, which has been in effect since 1996 and was greatly altered in 2020, with rail franchising being effectively abolished in May 2021.
South Western Railway will be the first rail operator to return to public ownership next year, marking a pivotal moment in the long-awaited overhaul of Britain’s railways, the government has ...
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Great Western Railway (GWR) also launched a pay-as-you-go system called GWR PAYG in August 2022, which requires the use of the GWR Touch smartcard. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Transport for Wales (TFW/TrC) have also started rolling out a Pay-as-you-go system using EMV cards from February 7th 2024 across South East Wales.
Sunbury railway station serves the town of Sunbury-on-Thames, in the Spelthorne district of Surrey, England. It is 16 miles 64 chains (27.0 km) down the line from London Waterloo . The station and all trains serving it are operated by South Western Railway .
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.