Serco-NedRailways

Infobox Company
name = Serco-NedRailways

type = Joint venture
foundation = 2002cite web|url=http://www.serco-nedrailways.com/pressandmedia/press-07.html|title=Press release "Northern Rail wins Rail Business of the Year"|publisher=Serco-NedRailways|accessdate=2008-04-15|date=2008-02-28]
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location_city = virtual [cite web|title=Our People|url=http://www.serco-nedrailways.com/ourpeople/ourpeople.html|accessdate=2008-04-15|publisher=Serco-NedRailways]
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location =
locations =
area_served = Northern England
key_people =
industry = Train operating company
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services =
revenue =
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owner = Serco and the

NedRailways division of Nederlandse Spoorwegen
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divisions =
subsid = Merseyrail
Northern Rail
homepage = [http://www.serco-nedrailways.com/ www.serco-nedrailways.com]
footnotes =
intl = yes

Serco-NedRailways is a trading name for the organization that controls Merseyrail and Northern Rail, two of Great Britain's franchised passenger train operating companies. [cite news
url=http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2004/oct/17/theobserver.observerbusiness10
title=Dutch railway to share new Northern franchise
publisher=The Observer
date=2004-10-17
author=Juliette Jowit]

The business is a 50:50 consortium owned by NedRailways, the UK subsidiary of Nederlandse Spoorwegen (NS) and Serco Group. NS, or Dutch Railways, is the state railway company of the Netherlands. Serco, a UK-based public company, is an international provider of outsourced public sector services, and an operator of
public transport systems such as London's Docklands Light Railway.

The objective of the joint venture is to operate passenger rail services in Great Britain. [cite web|url=http://www.serco-nedrailways.com/|title=Welcome to Serco-NedRailways|accessdate=2008-04-15]

The joint venture also submitted an unsuccessful bid for the West Midlands passenger rail franchise period that began in 2007 (awarded to London Midland.) [cite news
url=http://www.forbes.com/afxnewslimited/feeds/afx/2007/06/21/afx3842945.html
title=UK govt awards West Midlands rail franchise to Go-Ahead Group UPDATE
author=AFX News Limited / Thomson Financial
publisher=Forbes
date=2007-06-21]

References

External links

* [http://www.merseyrail.org/ Merseyrail] – subsidiary
* [http://www.northernrail.org/ Northern Rail] – subsidiary
* [http://www.serco-nedrailways.com/ Serco-NedRailways] – official website