page_title: InterCity East Coast
section_title: East Coast Main Line Company
hierarchical_section_title: InterCity East Coast / History / East Coast Main Line Company
caption_attribution_description: Nederlands: East Coast Class 91 118 trein in Waverley Station (Edinburgh).English: East Coast Class 91 Electric Loco 91 119 in Waverley Station (Edinburgh).
context_page_description: InterCity East Coast is a railway franchise for passenger trains on the East Coast Main Line in the United Kingdom from London King's Cross to Hull, Leeds, Bradford, Harrogate, Newcastle, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Inverness and Aberdeen. It was formed during the privatisation of British Rail and transferred to the private sector in April 1996.
  Initially operated by Great North Eastern Railway, it has since been operated by National Express East Coast, East Coast and Virgin Trains East Coast. It has now been taken over by London North Eastern Railway.
context_section_description: The franchise was re-nationalised on 14 November 2009 with Directly Operated Railways' subsidiary East Coast taking over, 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 be put back to February 2015.
caption: East Coast InterCity 225 at Edinburgh Waverley station in June 2014
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