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The Cross Country Route is a long-distance railway route in England, which runs from Bristol Temple Meads to York via Birmingham New Street, Derby, Sheffield and Leeds or Doncaster. Inter-city services on the route, which include some of the longest passenger journeys in the UK such as Aberdeen to Penzance , are operated by CrossCountry .
The Bristol to Exeter line runs between Bristol and Exeter via the Nailsea, Weston-super-Mare, Bridgwater and Taunton. It is served by local First Great Western services, and used by Cross-Country and Intercity trains headed towards Plymouth.
Aberdeen – London King's Cross: present The Northumbrian [5] [21] BR: London King's Cross – Newcastle: 1949 – 1964 Orcadian [56] LMS: Inverness – to Wick: 1936 – 1939 Olympic Javelin: Southeastern High Speed: London St Pancras – Ashford International: 2012 – present Palatine: LMS / BR: Manchester Central – London St Pancras ...
With sectorisation of British Rail in 1982 most long haul services became consolidated in the InterCity division which retained the brand. InterCity became profitable and one of Britain's top 150 companies, providing city centre to city centre travel across the nation from Aberdeen and Inverness in the north to Poole and Penzance in the south.
CrossCountry (legal name XC Trains Limited [2]) is a British train operating company owned by Arriva UK Trains, operating the current CrossCountry franchise.. The CrossCountry franchise was restructured by the Department for Transport (DfT) in 2006, incorporating elements of both the Central Trains and the Virgin CrossCountry franchises, ahead of its invitation to tender on October of that year.
Bristol Temple Meads — Exeter, Paignton, Plymouth and Penzance; Bristol Temple Meads — Birmingham New Street, Manchester, York, Newcastle, Edinburgh, Dundee and Aberdeen; Reading — Oxford, Birmingham New Street, Southampton Central and Bournemouth; 2000-01: Class 221: 22 Class 800: Bi-Mode Multiple Unit: 140 225 5 36 Great Western Railway ...
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The line diverged from the original Newcastle & Carlisle Railway at Scotswood, before running along the north bank of the River Tyne, with stations at Newburn, Lemington, Heddon-on-the-Wall and North Wylam. The line then crossed the River Tyne using the Wylam Railway Bridge, rejoining the Newcastle & Carlisle Railway again at the West Wylam ...