East Coast (train operating company) | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 18/01/2019

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00:01:26 1 Principal services
00:01:35 1.1 London – Leeds
00:02:06 1.2 London – Newcastle
00:02:57 1.3 London – Edinburgh
00:04:05 1.4 London – Newark/York
00:04:37 2 Limited service
00:04:46 2.1 London – Glasgow
00:05:15 2.2 London – Aberdeen
00:05:59 2.3 London – Inverness
00:06:34 2.4 London – Bradford
00:07:04 2.5 London – Skipton
00:08:26 2.6 London – Lincoln
00:08:53 2.7 London – Hull
00:09:20 2.8 London – Harrogate
00:09:42 3 Named trains
00:09:56 4 Rolling stock
00:11:33 4.1 Cancelled future fleet
00:12:16 4.2 Locomotive naming
00:13:46 5 Performance
00:14:18 6 Profitability
00:14:34 7 Loyalty scheme
00:15:42 8 TV series
00:16:10 9 Final day of service



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SUMMARY
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East Coast, the trading name of the East Coast Main Line Company, was a British train operating company running the InterCity East Coast franchise on the East Coast Main Line between London, Yorkshire, North East England, and Scotland. East Coast ran long-distance inter-city services from its Central London terminus at London King's Cross on two primary routes; the first to Leeds and the second to Edinburgh via Newcastle with other services reaching into Yorkshire and Northern and Central Scotland. It commenced operations on 14 November 2009 and ceased on 28 February 2015.East Coast was a subsidiary of Directly Operated Railways, formed by the Department for Transport as an operator of last resort when National Express refused to provide further financial support to its National Express East Coast (NXEC) subsidiary and consequently lost its franchise. The franchise was re-nationalised on 14 November 2009, with the intention being that operations would return to a private franchisee by December 2013. In March 2013 the Secretary of State for Transport announced that this would occur in February 2015 instead.In January 2014, FirstGroup, Keolis/Eurostar and Stagecoach/Virgin were announced as the shortlisted bidders for the new franchise. The franchise passed to Virgin Trains East Coast on 1 March 2015.