The company responsible for the running of Merseyrail is set to be taken over by a new UK-run transport organisation.
A management buyout from the state-owned rail company, Nederlandse Spoorwegen will pave the way for a new UK-based company to take over all Abellio UK’s existing services, serving millions of rail and bus passengers in Merseyside, London, the Midlands and East Anglia. The new company will be called Transport UK Group Limited.
Led by current Abellio managing director Dominic Booth, the buyout deal is subject to formal approval from partners including the Department for Transport, Transport for London and Merseytravel as well as regulatory consent from the Office for Rail and Road. After 20 years in the UK Nederlandse Spoorwegen has decided to withdraw from the UK market to focus on domestic service provision within, and international railway services to and from, the Netherlands.
