Great Western, Essex Thameside and Thameslink bidders

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I feel that now that a lot of franchises are under offer, there should be a merger of franchises

My plan is to reduce the number of franchises from 23 to 10 by merging the reorganising and merging the following franchises

(The names mentioned are the current names as of 22.04.2012, the resulting franchises will be might be renamed where needed)

Arriva Trains Wales will remain unchanged

C2C will remain unchanged

Chiltern Railways will absorb the Snow Hill Lines Services of London Midland City and might also absorb Metropolitan Line services between Baker Street to Watford/Chesham/Amersham (with all remaining services going between Aldgate to Uxbridge)

CrossCountry will absorb London Midland City (apart from Snow Hill Lines Services) and the Birmingham-Liverpool/Preston services of London Midland Express

East Coast will absorb East Midlands Trains (Route 1 Services), First Capital Connect, First Hull Trains, Grand Central, Southeastern and Southern
First Great Western will absorb Greater Anglia, Heathrow Connect and Heathrow Express
London Overground will remain unchanged

Northern Rail will absorb First TransPennine Express (North TransPennine and South TransPennine Services), East Midlands Trains (Route 2, 3 and 4 Services) and Merseyrail

Scotrail will remain unchanged

Virgin Trains will absorb London Midland Express (apart from Birmingham-Liverpool/Preston Services), First TransPennine Express (TransPennine Northwest Services) and South West Trains

Note:

All former London Midland City services will still be linked to Centro and might have a unified and independent brand identity from its parent TOC’s

All former Merseyrail services will still be linked to Merseytravel and might have a unified and independent brand identity from its parent TOC

All other Northern PTE services will still be linked to their respective PTE’S and might have a unified and independent brand identity from its parent TOC

When Crossrail is built in 2018, it will become part of First Great Western

When Crossrail 2 is built (which will remain a plan to link the Epping Branch of the Central Line to the Wimbledon Branch of the District Line via a tunnel under Central London, but now the former Epping Branch will be re-extended from Epping to Ongar) it will become part of South West Trains

When Crossrail 3 (which will link Euston and Waterloo via a tunnel under Central London) is built, only then will South West Trains (Including Crossrail 2services) become part of Virgin Trains

Can I have some of what you're taking?

 

[Aictos]

Can I have some of what you're taking?

Me too please!!!