The Northern Hub has a partnership involving which train company owned by FirstGroup and Keolis?
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Northern Hub The Northern Hub is a rail programme in Northern England to improve and increase train services and reduce journey times between its major cities and towns by electrifying lines and removing a major rail bottleneck in Manchester. It is predicted to stimulate economic growth in the region. The project has several elements but the prime objective is to eradicate the bottleneck in Manchester and allow trains to travel through the city at speed without stopping. The project was announced as the Manchester Hub in 2009. The project's steering partnership involves Network Rail, Deutsche Bahn, First TransPennine Express, Northern Rail, East Midlands Trains, CrossCountry, Freightliner, the Department for Transport, Transport for Greater Manchester and Merseytravel.
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First TransPennine Express First TransPennine Express was a British train operating company jointly owned by FirstGroup and Keolis which operated the TransPennine Express franchise. First TransPennine Express ran regular Express regional railway services between the major cities of Northern England as well as Scotland.
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Liverpool station group The Liverpool station group is a station group of four railway stations in Liverpool City Centre, England consisting of Lime Street, Central, James Street and Moorfields. The station group is printed on national rail tickets as Liverpool Stns and does not include the station of Liverpool South Parkway, which is located south of the city centre in Garston near Liverpool's Airport.
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First Potteries First Potteries is a bus company based in Stoke-on-Trent operating services in North Staffordshire. It is a subsidiary of FirstGroup.
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Tim O'Toole (businessman) Tim O'Toole CBE JD is an American businessman, the current Chief Executive of Scottish-headquartered global transport company, FirstGroup.
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Northern line (Merseyrail) The Northern line is one of the two commuter rail lines operated by Merseyrail in Merseyside, England, with Wirral line being the other. A third line, the City Line, is not owned or operated by Merseyrail. All three lines are funded by Merseytravel.
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Directly Operated Railways Directly Operated Railways was a holding company set up by the Department for Transport in the United Kingdom in July 2009 to run rail franchises should it become necessary to bring them into public ownership. Its function was taken over by a partnership of Arup Group, Ernst & Young and SNC-Lavalin Rail & Transit in November 2015.
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Great Plains Energy Great Plains Energy Incorporated is a holding company based in Kansas City, Missouri that owns electric utility Kansas City Power and Light Company and Strategic Energy, LLC, an energy management company.
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First Midland Red First Midland Red is a bus company operating services in Herefordshire and Worcestershire in the English Midlands. It is a subsidiary of FirstGroup.
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Wirral line The Wirral line is one of two commuter railway lines operated by Merseyrail and centred on Merseyside, England, the other being the Northern line. A third line of the Merseyrail network, the City Line, is not operated by the Merseyrail train operating company, though it also receives funding from Merseytravel, the passenger transport executive for Merseyside.
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Transitio AB Transitio AB is a Swedish limited liability company that is owned by a mix of different regions and public transport companies in Sweden. Their function is to buy trains and then lease them out to the owners and in so doing reduce the cost of maintenance and ownership.
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Thameslink, Southern and Great Northern franchise Thameslink, Southern and Great Northern (TSGN) is a management contract for the provision of passenger services on the Thameslink and Great Northern routes to Bedford , Luton , Peterborough , King's Lynn , Cambridge , London King's Cross , London Moorgate, Sutton, Wimbledon and Brighton, as well as the whole Southern network (including the Gatwick Express) and the jointly operated First Capital Connect Southeastern services (for example the Kentish Town - Sevenoaks via Catford ), which were added to the franchise on 25 July 2015, with the Southern and Gatwick Express brands retained.
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Kelso Multimodal Transportation Center The Kelso Multimodal Transportation Center (also known as Kelso–Longview and previously as the Kelso Burlington Northern Train Depot) is an Amtrak train station located immediately south of Kelso, Washington, United States. The station also serves the neighboring city of Longview, which is located just across the Cowlitz River. The station is served by "Cascades" and "Coast Starlight" trains. Greyhound Lines provides national and regional bus service, while RiverCities Transit provides local transit. Shuttle vans, taxis and rental cars can also be hired at the station.
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GB Railfreight GB Railfreight is a rail freight company in the United Kingdom. It is owned by EQT Partners through its subsidiary holding company Hector Rail.
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Northern Subdivision (CSX) The Northern Subdivision is a railroad line owned by CSX Transportation in the U.S. States of Kentucky and Ohio. The line runs from Greenup, Kentucky to Columbus, Ohio for a total of 106.4 mi . At its south end the line continues north from the Russell Subdivision and at its north end the line continues north as the Columbus Subdivision of the Great Lakes Division.
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Transdev NSW Transdev NSW is an Australian bus operator in the northern, southern and western suburbs of Sydney on behalf of Transport for New South Wales. It is a subsidiary of Transdev Australasia.
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Meitetsu Group The Meitetsu Group (名鉄グループ , Meitetsu Gurūpu ) of companies centers on the Nagoya Railroad railway company, which links Nagoya and its suburbs. Many companies in the group are designed to enhance the value of the Meitetsu rail network. In addition to the railroad system, the group includes other companies in transportation, real-estate, retail, leisure, and cultural endeavors. Here is a partial list of companies in the Meitetsu Group.
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Tågkompaniet Tågkompaniet or Svenska Tågkompaniet AB ("The Swedish Train Company") is a Swedish railway company that operates franchises in Northern Sweden and Greater Stockholm. The company was founded in 1999 by three former railway employees in Statens Järnvägar and the investment company Småföretagsinvest/Fylkinvest. In 2005 Norwegian State Railways (Norwegian: "Norges Statsbaner" ) purchased 34% of Svenska Tågkompaniet, and later on October 31, 2006 increased its ownership stake to 85%.
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Snälltåget Snälltåget is a train operator owned by Transdev running long distance trains along the Southern Main Line in Sweden from Malmö to Stockholm.
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Northern Powerhouse The Northern Powerhouse is a proposal to boost economic growth in the North of England by the 2010-15 coalition government and 2015-2017 Conservative government in the United Kingdom, particularly in the "Core Cities" of Manchester, Liverpool, Leeds, Sheffield, Hull and Newcastle. The proposal is based on urban agglomeration and aims to reposition the British economy away from London and the South East.
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Heuston railway station Heuston Station (Irish: "Stáisiún Heuston" ; formerly Kingsbridge Station) also known as Dublin Heuston, is one of Ireland's main railway stations, linking the capital with the south, southwest and west. It is operated by Iarnród Éireann (IÉ), the national railway operator. It also houses the head office of its parent company - Córas Iompair Éireann(CIÉ).
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Tampere light rail The Tampere light rail is a public transport system to be built in Tampere, Finland. Studies on the viability of a light rail system in Tampere have been conducted since 2001 as parts of regional plans for public transport alongside heavy rail and bus solutions. In November 2016 the Tampere city council approved the plans to construct the 330-million-euro system, aiming at 2021 completion for the first phase (city centre to Hervanta and TAYS) and 2024 for the second (city centre to Lentävänniemi).