To boldly go
Mar 16, 2021
4 minutes
THE Wrexham, Shropshire & Marylebone Railway Company was formed in 2006 to run open access trains to London from an area of the Welsh and English border that last saw such through trains in the 1990s.
The initial company was a joint venture between John Laing and Renaissance Trains, and it was given approved by the Office of Rail Regulation to run trains from December 2007. A delay saw services actually begin on April 28, 2008 – at which time Deutsche Bahn subsidiary DB Regio owned a 50% stake (that it would increase to full ownership by September 2009).
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