Northern Rail

Northern Rail is a train operating company that has operated local services in the north of England since 2004. The rail franchise was won by a consortium formed of NedRailways (the English unit of Nederlandse Spoorwegen, the privatised train operating company of the Netherlands) and Serco, an international operator of public transport systems in a 50:50 split. This consortium had already won the contract to operate the Merseyrail network earlier in 2003.
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