First Harrogate Trains


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First Harrogate Trains was a proposed open-access UK train operating company. They planned to run regular direct rail services between Harrogate and London.

First Harrogate Trains was a proposal from First Group and Renaissance Trains, who are the owners of First Hull Trains, as well as several other current and former train operating companies.

The application to run trains was denied by the Office of Rail Regulation (ORR) in a preliminary report released in January 2009, and in a final decision in February 2009.

Had it been successful, it was intended that services would have commenced in the summer of 2009.

Rolling stock
The preferred rolling stock to be used was Class 180 or Class 222 trains, the types used by First Hull Trains currently and previously respectively. These trains have one first-class coach and four standard class coaches (including a buffet bar, audio coach and quiet coach).

Route
First Harrogate Trains proposed to run from Harrogate to London with up to four services each way per day calling at:
 * Harrogate
 * Starbeck
 * Knaresborough
 * Cattal - possible park and ride to Wetherby
 * Hammerton
 * Poppleton
 * York
 * Doncaster
 * Retford
 * Grantham
 * Stevenage
 * London King's Cross