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The new London Midland franchise has been won by West Midlands Trains Ltd which is 70% owned by Abellio and 30% by East Japan Trains (Mitsui).

As posted on here in August: http://dartslf.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=1334 Although, the thread really needs to be renamed now Abellio have confirmed they won't be using the LM brand.

Just to remind everyone that West Midlands Trains Ltd has taken over from London Midland today.

(10/12/2017 08:52)boby32 Wrote: [ -> ]Just to remind everyone that West Midlands Trains Ltd has taken over from London Midland today.

There's going to be two different brands for two different business units. WM Trains will run the local services in the Midlands using trains in a purple and orange livery, while LNWR will run the WCML services, including Liverpool to Birmingham using a green and grey livery. They have separate websites and separate Twitter handles.

(10/12/2017 10:04)knutstransport Wrote: [ -> ]There's going to be two different brands for two different business units. WM Trains will run the local services in the Midlands using trains in a purple and orange livery, while LNWR will run the WCML services, including Liverpool to Birmingham using a green and grey livery. They have separate websites and separate Twitter handles.

Website of West Midlands trains ltd

https://www.wmtrains.co.uk/

West Midlands Railway (WMR) website:

https://www.westmidlandsrailway.co.uk/

London Northwestern Railway (LNWR) website

https://www.londonnorthwesternrailway.co.uk/

Given the weather conditions in that area today, looks both companies are having a baptism of fire so to speak.

Journey check is now
;
https://www.journeycheck.com/londonnorthwesternrailway/
or
https://www.journeycheck.com/westmidlandsrailway/
.

Here's the class 350 in the new livery.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xz2RT5bVqU

Here's a class 172 in the new livery.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBbruODG2GI

Week 1 of there life has been a hard one for them has it not ?

Exactly the same people will have dealt with it as would have the previous week - except for senior management sticking their oar in with ideas their predecessors spent a whole franchise discovering don't work.