GWR’s rail franchise extended to 2025

FirstGroup has been awarded a replacement National Rail Contract to continue running the Great Western Railway (GWR) until 2025.FirstGroup has been running the GWR franchise since it bought out its partners in their post-privatisation consortium in 1998, and has had its contract extended periodically ever since. The new National Rail Contract (NRC) replaces the pandemic era agreement where the government took on revenue risk, and was due to expire on 26th June.
The new contract will run until at