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Title: How Many TOCs can you Remember? Post by: eightf48544 on January 12, 2014, 12:24:08 Trying to remember which TOC tried to run Basingstoke to GEML it crossed my mind just how many TOCs have there been both current and dead? I haven't a clue but thinking about it most have changed at least once and there around 20 plus franchises then 50 or so!
It provides an Interesting answer to the Wolmar question; What are franchises for? To distribute government subsidies around the bus and foreign rail companies. Title: Re: How Many TOCs can you Remember? Post by: Network SouthEast on January 12, 2014, 12:54:29 Anglia Railways were the TOC you are talking of.
Title: Re: How Many TOCs can you Remember? Post by: JayMac on January 12, 2014, 13:52:52 Former TOCs off the top of my head - either as franchisee as awarded or mid term name/ownership change - in no particular order:
Anglia Railways West Anglia Great Northern (WAGN) First Great Eastern First North Western Northern Spirit Merseyrail Electrics Arriva Trains Northern Arriva Trains Merseyside National Express East Anglia one LTS Rail Valley Lines Wales & West Wessex Trains Wales & Borders Great North Eastern Railway (GNER) National Express East Coast Connex South Eastern South Eastern Trains (state run) Connex South Central Central Trains Virgin CrossCountry Great Western Trains Silverlink County Silverlink Metro Gatwick Express (now just a 'brand' within Southern Railway) Island Line (now just a 'brand' within South West Trains) Thameslink Thames Trains First Great Western Link Midland Mainline ScotRail (National Express) Title: Re: How Many TOCs can you Remember? Post by: Chris from Nailsea on January 12, 2014, 14:09:42 - in no particular order: Blimey! Alphabetical order might have been useful - you've lost me a bit in checking all those references now! :o ::) ;D This page is printed from the "Coffee Shop" forum at http://gwr.passenger.chat which is provided by a customer of Great Western Railway. Views expressed are those of the individual posters concerned. Visit www.gwr.com for the official Great Western Railway website. Please contact the administrators of this site if you feel that content provided contravenes our posting rules ( see http://railcustomer.info/1761 ). The forum is hosted by Well House Consultants - http://www.wellho.net |