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There are 24 train companies that serve the length and breadth of the UK. You can find information about them and their respective owning groups below.

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Train Companies

Arriva Trains Wales operates a mix of long distance, regional and local rural services in Wales, including the Valley Lines network of services around Cardiff, and also in the English border counties and to Manchester, Liverpool and Birmingham....[information on owning group and, where relevant, franchise period]
  c2c operates an intensive, mainly commuter, service into London Fenchurch Street from south east Essex....[information on owning group and, where relevant, franchise period]
  Chiltern Railways operate passenger train services throughout the M40 corridor between Birmingham and London. Their passengers are a mix of commuters, business and leisure travellers....[information on owning group and, where relevant, franchise period]
  CrossCountry operates a network of long distance services between Scotland and North East England through to the South West of England, Bournemouth and Brighton. Also between: " Birmingham, Leicester and Stansted Airport " Cardiff, Birmingham and Nottingham....[information on owning group and, where relevant, franchise period]
East Coast operates 135 weekday long distance train services along the East Coast Main Line, linking London King's Cross, the East Midlands, Yorkshire and Humberside, North East England and Scotland. The Government established a holding company, Directly Operated Railways, to take over the East Coast franchise from 23:59 on 13 November 2009....[information on owning group and, where relevant, franchise period]
  East Midlands Trainsoperates train services between London, the East Midlands and Yorkshire (Leicester/Nottingham/Derby/Sheffield/Leeds) and all the central England services groups linking Nottingham/Derby/Worksop/Lincoln/Cleethorpes/Skegness/Leicester/Cambridge....[information on owning group and, where relevant, franchise period]
  Operates high speed international train services between London/Brussels/Paris (centre and Disneyland Paris), the Alps and Rhone Valley....[information on owning group and, where relevant, franchise period]
  First Capital Connect (FCC) operates trains on the Thameslink route between Bedford and Brighton via central London and the Sutton and Wimbledon Loop....[information on owning group and, where relevant, franchise period]
  First Great Western (FGW) operates high-speed train services between London Paddington, South Wales, the Cotswolds and the West Country. These trains serve a mix of commuting, business and leisure customers....[information on owning group and, where relevant, franchise period]
  Hull Trains is a open access operator and provides a limited number of through trains between London Kings Cross and Hull....[information on owning group and, where relevant, franchise period]
  First TransPennine Express operate predominantly long distance inter-urban services linking major centres of population across both North East and North West England....[information on owning group and, where relevant, franchise period]
  Grand Central is an open access operator which provides direct high speed train services between London King’s Cross and Sunderland....[information on owning group and, where relevant, franchise period]
  Operates dedicated high speed services between London Paddington and Heathrow Airport....[information on owning group and, where relevant, franchise period]
  London Midland operates express services between London Euston, Milton Keynes and Birmingham New Street (via Northampton)....[information on owning group and, where relevant, franchise period]
  London Overground operates services between Richmond and Stratford via Willesden Junction, together with the Willesden Junction/Clapham Junction and Gospel Oak/Barking lines....[information on owning group and, where relevant, franchise period]
  Merseyrail provides services between Liverpool and Southport, Ormskirk, Kirby, Hunts Cross, New Brighton, West Kirby, Chester and Ellesmere Port....[information on owning group and, where relevant, franchise period]
  National Express East Anglia operates main line trains between London, Colchester, Ipswich and Norwich and local trains across Norfolk, Suffolk and parts of Cambridgeshire....[information on owning group and, where relevant, franchise period]
  Northern Rail operates a range of inter-urban, commuter and rural services throughout the North of England....[information on owning group and, where relevant, franchise period]
  ScotRail provides 95% of all passenger rail services within Scotland and has services to Carlisle and Newcastle....[information on owning group and, where relevant, franchise period]
  Southern operates predominantly commuter services between London, Surrey and Sussex, as well as services to Gatwick and Brighton, and South Coast services....[information on owning group and, where relevant, franchise period]
  Southeastern operates all the services in the south east London suburbs, the whole of Kent and part of Sussex, which are primarily commuter services to/from central London....[information on owning group and, where relevant, franchise period]
  South West Trains operates trains from London Waterloo to Woking, Basingstoke, Southampton, Portsmouth, Exeter, Reading, Bournemouth....[information on owning group and, where relevant, franchise period]
  Virgin Trains operates services between Glasgow, North West England, North Wales, the West Midlands and London, and also between Birmingham and Glasgow/ Edinburgh...[information on owning group and, where relevant, franchise period]
  Wrexham & Shropshire is an open access operator and run a train service between Wrexham, Shrewsbury, Birmingham and London Marylebone....[information on owning group and, where relevant, franchise period]