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  • 1. Heathrow Express London
    Heathrow Express is an airport rail link between London Heathrow Airport and Paddington. It opened in 1998 and was an open access operator until November 2018, so it was not subject to franchising. From June 1998 to August 2018, the service was operated by the Heathrow Express Operating Company, a wholly owned subsidiary of Heathrow Airport Holdings, but is now operated by Great Western Railway.
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  • 2. Docklands Light Railway London
    The Docklands Light Railway is an automated light metro system in the United Kingdom that serves the London Docklands area of east and south-east London, owned by Transport for London and currently operated under contract by Keolis Amey Docklands Ltd. Construction of the DLR was a key component in the regeneration of large parts of the London Docklands from disused industrial land into valuable commercial and residential districts. The first part opened in 1987 serving 15 stations, using redundant railway infrastructure and new construction. The network has been extended and the capacity of its trains expanded so that now nearly 70 million journeys made every year. Stations are in the City of London and the boroughs of Newham, Tower Hamlets, Greenwich and Lewisham with the majority of the ...
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  • 3. Liverpool Street Station London
    Liverpool Street station, also known as London Liverpool Street, is a central London railway terminus and connected London Underground station, located on the eastern fringe of the City of London, close to the Spitalfields and Shoreditch districts. It is one of the busiest railway stations in London, serving as the terminus of the West Anglia Main Line to Cambridge, the busier Great Eastern Main Line to Norwich, local and regional commuter trains serving east London and destinations in the East of England, and the Stansted Express service to Stansted Airport. The station opened in 1874 as a replacement for Bishopsgate station as the Great Eastern Railway's main London terminus. By 1895 it had the largest number of platforms on any terminal railway station in London. During the First World ...
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  • 4. Gatwick Express London
    Gatwick Express is a high-frequency rail passenger service between London Victoria, Gatwick Airport, and Brighton in South East England. It is the brand name used by the Govia Thameslink Railway train operating company on the Gatwick Express route of the Thameslink, Southern and Great Northern franchise. The service began in May 1984 with air-conditioned InterCity carriages operated by British Rail. When it was privatised in April 1996, National Express took over the franchise. In June 2008, Gatwick Express ceased to exist as a separate franchise, when it was merged into the Southern train operating company, although it continues to be maintained as a separate identity. In July 2015, Southern including the Gatwick Express service was merged into Govia Thameslink Railway.
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  • 5. Great Western Railway (GWR) London
    The Great Western Railway was a British railway company that linked London with the south-west and west of England, the Midlands, and most of Wales. It was founded in 1833, received its enabling Act of Parliament on 31 August 1835 and ran its first trains in 1838. It was engineered by Isambard Kingdom Brunel, who chose a broad gauge of 7 ft —later slightly widened to 7 ft 1⁄4 in —but, from 1854, a series of amalgamations saw it also operate 4 ft 8 1⁄2 in standard-gauge trains; the last broad-gauge services were operated in 1892. The GWR was the only company to keep its identity through the Railways Act 1921, which amalgamated it with the remaining independent railways within its territory, and it was finally merged at the end of 1947 when it was nationalised and became the Western ...
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  • 6. Heathrow Connect London
    Heathrow Connect was a train service in London provided jointly by Heathrow Express and Great Western Railway , between Heathrow Airport and Paddington station. The service followed the same route as the non-stop Heathrow Express service but called at certain intermediate stations, connecting several locations in West London with each other, the airport, and Central London. It ran every half-hour throughout the day and evening. The service launched on 12 June 2005 and ran until 20 May 2018, when it was absorbed into the TfL Rail franchise, ahead of becoming part of the Elizabeth line in autumn 2019.
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  • 7. Southern Railway London
    The Southern Railway , sometimes shortened to 'Southern', was a British railway company established in the 1923 Grouping. It linked London with the Channel ports, South West England, South coast resorts and Kent. The railway was formed by the amalgamation of several smaller railway companies, the largest of which were the London & South Western Railway , the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway and the South Eastern and Chatham Railway . The construction of what was to become the Southern Railway began in 1838 with the opening of the London and Southampton Railway, which was renamed the London & South Western Railway. The railway was noted for its astute use of public relations and a coherent management structure headed by Sir Herbert Walker. At 2,186 miles , the Southern Railway was t...
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