Train GraphicClick on the map to explore geographics
 
I need help
FAQ
Emergency
About .
 Travel & transport from BBC stories as at 15:15 16 Jun 2025
 
- UK's largest road tunnel project awarded £590m
Read about the forum [here].
Register [here] - it's free.
What do I gain from registering? [here]		 18/06/25 - Rail Live 2025
21/06/25 - BRC to Lydney
24/06/25 - GWR Community Rail Conf
26/06/25 - TWNW conference

On this day
16th Jun (1947)
Last passenger train services to Nailsworth
Train RunningCancelled
19:37 Didcot Parkway to Oxford
Short Run
13:58 Bristol Temple Meads to Exeter St Davids
15:10 Weston-Super-Mare to Severn Beach
15:28 Weston-Super-Mare to London Paddington
15:50 Exeter St Davids to Bristol Temple Meads
18:30 Banbury to Didcot Parkway
Delayed
14:10 Weston-Super-Mare to Avonmouth
•
PollsOpen and recent polls
Closed 2025-06-16 Do you like the idea of guest locomotives on heritage lines
•
Abbreviation pageAcronymns and abbreviations
•
Stn ComparatorStation Comparator
•
Rail newsNews Now - live rail news feed
•
Train companiesSelect from:
GWR
SWR
XC
Chiltern
TfL
TfW
WMR
Southern
• Site Style 1 2 3 4
Next departures • Bristol Temple Meads • Bath Spa • Chippenham • Swindon • Didcot Parkway • Reading • London Paddington • Melksham
Exeter St Davids • Taunton • Westbury • Trowbridge • Bristol Parkway • Cardiff Central • Oxford • Cheltenham Spa • Birmingham New Street
June 16, 2025, 15:20:36 *
Welcome, Guest. Please login or register.

Login with username, password and session length
Forgotten your username or password? - get a reminder
Most recently liked subjects
[185] Lower Thames Crossing, between Tilbury in Essex and Gravesend ...
[114] Air India flight to London Gatwick crashed in Ahmedabad
[70] Tube driver knitting and watching TV
[46] Donated Pacer train 'valuable resource' to SEN school in Blyth...
[45] Bus Service 205
[45] 2025 - Service update and amendment log, Swindon <-> Westbury...
 
News: the Great Western Coffee Shop ... keeping you up to date with travel around the South West
 
   Home   Help Search Calendar Login Register  
Great Western Coffee Shop > All across the Great Western territory > The Wider Picture in the United Kingdom > First acquires Stirling-London Grand Union open access operation
Pages: [1]
« previous next »
  Print  
Author Topic: First acquires Stirling-London Grand Union open access operation  (Read 1151 times)
ChrisB
Transport Scholar
Hero Member
******
Posts: 13410


View Profile Email
« on: September 25, 2024, 20:27:20 »
From Rail magazine

Quote
FirstGroup has taken over Ian Yeowart’s Stirling-London open access operation, which holds five-year track access rights and is proposed to start in June 2025.

Having acquired Grand Union Trains WCML▸ (West Coast Main Line) Holdings Ltd and its Grand Union Trains Ltd operating subsidiary from Yeowart, the deal gives FirstGroup ownership of the open access rights granted on March 7 by the Office of Rail and Road (ORR» (Office of Rail and Road, formerly Office of Rail Regulation - about)).

The companies, newly renamed First Rail Stirling Holdings Ltd and First Rail Stirling Ltd, are now led by First Rail MD Steve Montgomery. The previous directors have resigned.

Financial terms of the deal, which concluded on August 9, have not been disclosed.

The ORR track access rights from June 2025 to June 2030 are for four daily return services between Euston and Stirling, calling at Milton Keynes, Nuneaton, Crewe, Preston, Carlisle, Lockerbie, Motherwell, Whifflet, Greenfaulds and Larbert, with an additional positioning service each day, each way, between Euston and Preston.

Yeowart continues to head the separate Grand Union Trains GWML▸ (Great Western Main Line) Holdings Ltd, which was granted open access rights between London Paddington and Carmarthen in December 2022, authorised to start from December 2024.

FirstGroup confirms that is not involved in Yeowart’s proposed Carmarthen operation, which is totally separate from the Stirling acquisition, Yeowart having de-merged it last summer.
Logged
anthony215
Hero Member
*****
Posts: 1322


View Profile Email
« Reply #1 on: October 03, 2024, 21:13:45 »
The Carmarthen to London service remains with grabs Union GWML▸ (Great Western Main Line) LTD
Logged
ChrisB
Transport Scholar
Hero Member
******
Posts: 13410


View Profile Email
« Reply #2 on: October 06, 2024, 21:46:47 »
Quote from: ChrisB on September 25, 2024, 20:27:20
From Rail magazine

Quote
Yeowart continues to head the separate Grand Union Trains GWML▸ (Great Western Main Line) Holdings Ltd, which was granted open access rights between London Paddington and Carmarthen in December 2022, authorised to start from December 2024.

FirstGroup confirms that is not involved in Yeowart’s proposed Carmarthen operation, which is totally separate from the Stirling acquisition, Yeowart having de-merged it last summer.

yep.
Logged
Do you have something you would like to add to this thread, or would you like to raise a new question at the Coffee Shop? Please [register] (it is free) if you have not done so before, or login (at the top of this page) if you already have an account - we would love to read what you have to say!

You can find out more about how this forum works [here] - that will link you to a copy of the forum agreement that you can read before you join, and tell you very much more about how we operate. We are an independent forum, provided and run by customers of Great Western Railway, for customers of Great Western Railway and we welcome railway professionals as members too, in either a personal or official capacity. Views expressed in posts are not necessarily the views of the operators of the forum.

As well as posting messages onto existing threads, and starting new subjects, members can communicate with each other through personal messages if they wish. And once members have made a certain number of posts, they will automatically be admitted to the "frequent posters club", where subjects not-for-public-domain are discussed; anything from the occasional rant to meetups we may be having ...

 
Pages: [1]
  Print  
« previous next »
 
Jump to:  

Powered by MySQL Powered by PHP Powered by SMF 1.1.2 | SMF © 2006-2007, Simple Machines LLC Valid XHTML 1.0! Valid CSS!
This forum is provided by customers of Great Western Railway (formerly First Great Western), and the 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 the content provided by one of our posters contravenes our posting rules via admin@railcustomer.info. Full legal statement (here).

Jump to top of page • Jump to Forum Home Page