First Harrogate Trains

First Harrogate Trains

Franchise(s)	Open access operator
Main region(s)	Harrogate Line East Coast Main Line
Parent company	FirstGroup (80%) Renaissance Trains (20%)
Other
Website	www.harrogatetrains.co.uk

First Harrogate Trains was a proposed open access operator with ambitions to run passenger services between Harrogate and London King's Cross via York.

First Harrogate Trains was a subsidiary of Hull Trains, owned by FirstGroup (80%) and Renaissance Trains (20%).

The application to run trains was rejected by the Office of Rail Regulation in February 2009. It cited that the services would not bring enough new patronage and thus rely on abstracting revenue from existing train operating companies.

First Harrogate Trains also applied for 4 trains per day service from Cleethorpes to London service calling at: Barnetby, Market Rasen, Lincoln Central, Sleaford, Donnington Parkway (new station), Spalding, Peterborough, Huntingdon, Stevenage and London Kings Cross, with an additional 4 trains per day between Lincoln and London Kings Cross. In 2009, it was rejected by the Office of Rail Regulations.

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 Adelante or Class 222 Pioneer trains, the types used by Hull Trains currently and previously respectively.

Route

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First Harrogate Trains proposed to run from Harrogate to London King's Cross with up to four services each way per day calling at:

• Harrogate
• Starbeck
• Knaresborough
• Cattal
• Hammerton
• Poppleton
• York
• Doncaster
• Retford
• Grantham
• Stevenage
• London King's Cross