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RMT helpline 0800 376 3706 :: october 2014 :: RMTnews 13 WHO OWNS WHAT IN UK RAIL CONTRACT / ROUTE OPERATOR OPERATOR OWNER NAME OPERATOR OWNER - COUNTRY Caledonian Sleeper Serco Caledonian Sleepers (begins April 2015) Serco UK private company Chiltern Arriva Deutsche Bahn German State Railways Cross Country Arriva Deutsche Bahn German State Railways Docklands Light Railway Keolis Amey Docklands Amey / Keolis joint venture French state owns Keolis Essex Thameside C2C National Express UK private company East Midlands East Midlands Trains Stagecoach UK registered private company East Coast UK state operated Gatwick Express GTR Govia (comprising of Go- ahead and Keolis) French state owns Keolis Grand Central Arriva Deutsche Bahn German state railways Greater Anglia Greater Anglia Abellio Dutch State railways Great Western First Great Western First Group UK registered private company London Midland London Midland Railway Govia (comprising of Go- ahead and Keolis) French state railways owns Keolis, London Overground Arriva/MTR Deutsche Bahn/MTR German State Railways / Hong Kong State Northern Northern Serco / Abellio Dutch state railways own Abellio Scotland Abellio Scotrail (begins April 2015) Abellio Dutch state railways own Abellio South West South West Trains Stagecoach UK registered private company Southern GTR Govia (comprising of Go- ahead and Keolis) French state owns Keolis South Eastern South Eastern Govia (Go- ahead and Keolis) French state railways owns Keolis, Thameslink, Great Northern GTR Govia (Go- ahead and Keolis) French state railways owns Keolis, TransPennine First TransPennine Express First Group / Keolis French state railways owns Keolis, Tyne & Wear Metro DB Regio Tyne and Wear Arriva Deutsche Bahn German State Railways Wales & Borders Arriva Deutsche Bahn German State Railways West Coast Virgin West Coast Virgin / Stagecoach Virgin and Stagecoach are UK registered private company Hull First Hull Trains First Group UK registered private company Merseyrail Merseyrail Serco / Abellio Dutch state railways own Abellio Eurostar Eurostar EIL is owned by London and Continental SNCB is the Belgian State railway and Railways(40%), SNCB (5%) and SNCF (55%) SNCF is the French State railway. UK government is selling its stake. Heathrow Express Heathrow Express Heathrow Airport Holdings Consortium including wealth funds of Singapore, China and Qatar. Heathrow Connect Heathrow Connect Heathrow Airport Holdings/First Group R MT has slammed plans by the Tory-led government to sell the increasingly profitable 40 per cent holding in the Eurostar rail service before the next election in May. RMT general secretary Mick Cash described the move to sell off the national asset as a gross act of betrayal of the British people by “a right-wing government hell-bent on selling off the family silver regardless of the real cost. “This compounds the issue of foreign ownership of Britain’s railways as the French state have first refusal on our slice of the highly profitable Eurostar cake,” he said. He vowed resistance to the government’s “industrial vandalism. “With Eurostar a strong contender for the resale of the East Coast franchise we could easily end up within the next few years with the French state having complete control of rail services from Paris to Inverness,” he added. Eurostar services started running through the tunnel in 1994 and traffic is increasing every year through the tunnel and on high- speed tracks to St Pancras. Eurostar does not own any of these assets and pays to use them as a train operator. The group started as a joint venture between the three state- owned rail companies including Belgium and France before the privatisation of British Rail. TORIES TO FLOG OFF EUROSTAR