Now it's the final stretch. The last two TOCs after this will finish off this World Cup of TOCs/What do the players want (looking at you DTG :P) So, to remind you, here are the operators. British Rail 1948 - Founded as British Railways - Regional System 1965 - British Rail became commonly used. 1982 - Sectorisation 1997 - Privatisation, BR Ceases operation. Routes Operated: All Stations Operated: All - Called at: All Franchised: No Operated by; British Government. Scotrail I'm going to kind of cheat this one. Saying as anything Abellio related when it comes to Scotrail is going to be Debranded - or so it seems, judging by TS content - I'm just going to merge First Scotrail & Abellio eras together. 1983 - BR Scotrail begins operation 1997 - National Express begins operating the new Scotrail franchise 2004 - First begin operating the franchise 2008 - Transport Scotland announces all trains will receive the 'Saltire' livery. 2015 - First ceases operation: Abellio take over 2022 - Scotrail to be operated by Scottish Government (Transport Scotland) Routes Operated: All Scottish routes (Minus WCML south of Carstairs) Stations Operated: All Scottish (- Glasgow Central & Edinburgh Waverley) - Called at: All Scottish except Lockerbie Franchised: Yes Operated by; First (LNER) East Coast 1996 - 2007: GNER Operates Franchise 2007 - 2009: Nat Ex. EC operates 2009 - 2015: East Coast operates 2015 - 2018: Virgin Trains EC operates 2018- LNER Operates Routes Operated: London - Lincoln, Hull, Leeds, Harrogate, Bradford, Skipton, York, Newcastle, Sunderland, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Aberdeen, Stirling, Inverness Stations Operated: Berwick-upon-Tweed (I am unaware of others) - Called at: Stations along routes above, Skipping most local stations. Franchised: Yes Operated by; UK Government DfT Great Western (GWR/FGW) 2003 - Franchise Created as Wessex Trains, Thames Trains & Great Western franchises combined - First Operate the franchise 2015 - FGW becomes GWR - Still First Routes Operated: South Wales ML, GWML, Devon & Cornwall, Western England Lines, etc. Stations Operated: many of the above routes' stations. - Called at: See above routes. Franchised: Yes Operated by; First
