Abellio Greater Anglia
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Greater Anglia 5 Feb 2012 - 15 Oct 2016 East Anglia 16 Oct 2016 - 2025 |
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| Main region(s): | Cambridgeshire, Essex, Norfolk & Suffolk | ||||
| Other region(s): | London & Hertfordshire | ||||
| Stations called at: | 170 | ||||
| Stations operated: | 154 | ||||
| Parent company: | Abellio | ||||
| Website: | www.greateranglia.co.uk | ||||
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Abellio East Anglia Limited, trading as Greater Anglia, is a train operating company in Great Britain owned by Abellio. It operates the East Anglia franchise, providing the majority of commuter/regional services from its Central London terminus at London Liverpool Street to Essex, Suffolk, Norfolk and parts of Hertfordshire and Cambridgeshire as well as many regional services throughout the East of England.
Abellio began operating the franchise, then known as the Greater Anglia franchise, in February 2012. It traded initially under the same name until it rebranded as Abellio Greater Anglia in December 2013. In May 2015, most of the company's suburban services were transferred to London Overground and the precursor to Crossrail, TfL Rail.
The franchise was re-tendered as the East Anglia franchise and awarded to Abellio in August 2016. The company resumed trading as Greater Anglia on 16 October 2016 when the new franchise commenced. In January 2017, Abellio announced that subject to gaining Department for Transport approval, it had agreed to sell a 40% stake in the business to Mitsui.
In December 2003 the Strategic Rail Authority awarded the Greater Anglia franchise to National Express, with One commencing operations starting on 1 April 2004. The franchise was to run until March 2011, with provision for a three-year extension if performance targets were met.
In November 2009 the Department for Transport announced that National Express would not be granted the three-year extension for which it had met the criteria, after National Express East Coast had defaulted on the InterCity East Coast franchise.
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