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First / Keolis
FirstGroup plc have teamed up with Keolis, one of Europe's private transport operators - to deliver a fresh, exciting and unique rail service across the Pennines.
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FirstGroup plc is a UK based international transport company with revenues of over £5billion a year. We employ over 135,000 staff throughout the UK and North America and move more than 2.5 billion passengers a year.

We are Britain's largest bus operator running more than one in five of all local bus services. A fleet of nearly 9,000 buses carries some 2.9million passengers a day in more than 40 major towns and cities.

We operate passenger and freight services in the UK. Our passenger operations include regional, intercity and commuter services - First Great Western, First ScotRail, First Capital Connect, First TransPennine Express and Hull Trains.

First operates the Croydon Tramlink network carrying approximately 24 million passengers a year on behalf of Transport for London.

In North America the Group has four operating divisions: yellow school buses (First Student), transit contracting and management services (First Transit), vehicle maintenance and ancillary services (First Services) as well as Greyhound provider of scheduled inter-city bus transportation services.

We are the leader in safe, innovative, reliable, sustainable transport services - global in scale and local in approach.

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Keolis
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Keolis is one of Europe's leading providers of passenger transport management services we rank first in the French Market. We provide multimodal integrated solutions with buses, coaches, light and heavy railways.

Keolis designs, implements and operates efficient and competitive public transport networks. We employ over 30,800 employees in eight countries worldwide. We act proactively to satisfy our customers which include PTAs, major airlines, airports and passengers. Our vision for tomorrow is that Keolis becomes the public transport provider of choice. Passengers, their comfort and security are key drivers to our success.

With you, we will move further together.

200 subsidiaries

30,800 employees including more than 22,000 drivers

2.4 billion euros turnover in 2005

www.keolis.com
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