Abellio is a fully-owned subsidiary of NS Groep N.V. (NS) and operates in the passenger transport markets in the United Kingdom and Germany. Every day,...
Abellio’s strategy helps NS to achieve its objectives and has 3 pillars: earn, learn and prepare, whilst effectively balancing risk and reward of its...
The UK government privatised the railways in 1993; since this time the UK franchising bodies award contracts for the operations of UK rail franchises to...
In 2017 Abellio UK reached the largest and most diversified position in its operating history, with the start of the West Midlands franchise in December.
Abellio UK’s bidding strategy is based on a considered approach whereby bids are only made for franchises that are lower risk and which complement the...
The Greater Anglia (GA) franchise began operations on 16th October 2016 for a period of 9 years. In April 2017 40% of this franchise was divested to Mitsui...
Merseyrail (MR) is Abellio’s longest franchise. Let by Merseytravel (MT, regional transport provider), MR operates metropolitan services in and around the...
ScotRail is let by Transport Scotland and operates intercity, regional and suburban rail services across the Scottish national rail network.
Abellio began operating West Midlands Trains (WM) on 10th December 2017 for a period of 8 years and 3 months as part of a 70:15:15 venture with Mitsui and...