Abellio UKs CEO Dominic Booth is understood to be leading buyout and will help fund deal using own money. The Dutch state railway is to pull out of the UK with a management buyout of its subsidiary Abellio, which runs four rail lines and a number of London bus routes. Abellio, which for 20 years has run East Midlands Railway, Greater Anglia, Merseyrail and West Midlands Railway and employs 15,000 staff, is to be sold by the Netherlands state-run Nederlandse Spoorwegen to its UK management. The business will be operated by a new firm, to be known as Transport UK Group Limited.
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The Office of Rail and Road has authorised into service 36 three-car Class 730s on order for West Midlands Railway.
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