Michael Schabas Jeremy Long Jim Morgan Max Steinkopf
Services
Passenger transportation Freight transportation
Subsidiaries
Anglia Railways Hull Trains (80%) GB Railfreight
Website
www.gbrailways.com
Not to be confused with Great British Railways.
GB Railways[1] was the parent company of a number of train operating companies, running the Anglia Railways franchise from January 1997 and launching Hull Trains and GB Railfreight.[2] GB Railways was also involved in the management of the Estonian rail company Edelaraudtee and had an investment in Great Southern Rail in Australia.
The company was acquired by FirstGroup in August 2003.
^Companies House extract company no 3263210 GB Railways Group plc
^"GB Railways plc Corporate Brochure" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 27 September 2013. Retrieved 17 October 2012.
GBRailways was the parent company of a number of train operating companies, running the Anglia Railways franchise from January 1997 and launching Hull...
investment group. GB Railfreight was established in April 1999 as the rail freight operating subsidiary of the train operating company GBRailways. It was granted...
Passenger Rail Franchising to GBRailways, with the franchise commencing on 5 January 1997. In June 1998, Anglia Railways unveiled a turquoise and white...
between an 80 per cent stake held by the train operating company (TOC) GBRailways, while the former British Rail managers Mike Jones and John Nelson held...
GB Rail may refer to: GB Railfreight, railway freight operator in the United Kingdom GBRailways, former owner of train companies in the United Kingdom...
concession. During August 2003, FirstGroup purchased GBRailways, which owned Anglia Railways and GB Railfreight and held 80% of the shares in Hull Trains...
new, publicly-owned London North Eastern Railway TOC the following month. The 2003 purchase of GBRailways by FirstGroup was seen by some as an attempt...
Railways Enterprise service from Dublin Connolly to Belfast Lanyon Place on the Belfast-Dublin line joint venture between Northern Ireland Railways and...
under Thatcher's successor John Major that the railways themselves were privatised. Under the Railways Act 1993, the operations of the BRB were broken...
use on the railways of the UK. Since its introduction the class has been successful and has been sold to British and other European railway companies....
and Merseyrail began operating. FirstGroup purchased GBRailways which owned the Anglia Railways and Hull Trains businesses. A policy where the majority...
South Australian RailwaysGb Class locomotives were built by Robert Stephenson and Company in 1874 and 1878 for the Glenelg Railway Company, later being...
Scotland, for the Uganda Railway (UR). Its design of GB was based upon that of the earlier UR G class. The 34 members of the GB class entered service on...
Crossrail project, alternative schemes were being proposed. In 2002, GBRailways put forward a scheme called SuperCrossRail which would link regional...
formed in 2000 with GBRailways having an 80% shareholding and Mike Jones & John Nelson 10% each. FirstGroup purchased GBRailways' share in August 2003...
needed] In April 2003, the Strategic Rail Authority announced Arriva, GBRailways and National Express had been shortlisted to bid for the new franchise...
Schabas founded GBRailways (GBR), which went on to win the Anglia Railways franchise and to launch GB Railfreight and Hull Trains. GBRailways was part of...
Services set up by British Nuclear Fuels. GB Railfreight was a new freight company established in 1998 by GBRailways. It was later owned by FirstGroup, Europorte...
The Overland — were sold to Great Southern Rail (GSR), a consortium of GBRailways, Legal & General, Macquarie Bank, RailAmerica, G13 Pty Ltd and Serco...
reliability. In April 2003 the Strategic Rail Authority announced Arriva, GBRailways and National Express had been shortlisted to bid for the new franchise...
Hillside Trains services from 29 August 1999 beating competition from GBRailways and National Express. As a partner of the consortium, Alstom would supply...
close to completion", Modern Railways, February 2014, p.87. "GBRF, s first class 73/9 is close to completion", Railways Illustrated, March 2014, p.8-9...
Progressive Conservative Party of Manitoba Max Steinkopf, co-founder of GBRailways Pete Steinkopf, guitarist of New Jerseyan punk rock band The Bouncing...
franchise having beaten bids from a Management/FirstBus consortium, GBRailways and Stagecoach. In December 2002, after the franchise ran into financial...
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