Virgin CrossCountry ( legal name CrossCountry Trains Limited, company no 3007937 ) was a train operating company in the United Kingdom operating the InterCity CrossCountry franchise from 6 January 1997 until 10 November 2007 radiating out from Birmingham New Street across the country.

There is one CrossCountry service Monday to Saturday only from Nottingham but no return service.

Long distance services using this line as part of longer journeys are run by East Coast, East Midlands Trains and CrossCountry.

* CrossCountry operate 1 train a day to Manchester Piccadilly, 1 train per day to Bristol Temple Meads and 2 trains per day to Bournemouth.

CrossCountry operate trains between Reading and Oxford, using the Great Western Main Line as far as Didcot and South West Trains operate a limited number of trains between Bath and Bristol.

* CrossCountry operate an hourly service to via and Birmingham.

Most of these companies operate their services from one of the many London termini, with CrossCountry being the exception, running from Cornwall to Scotland.

Services which operate over the entire length of the route are provided by Northern Rail as well as by a number of CrossCountry trains.

CrossCountry operate train services to Newcastle, Edinburgh and Glasgow to the north and services to Birmingham, Bournemouth and the South West of England.

In addition, CrossCountry operate services from Bournemouth to Manchester.

CrossCountry operate two trains per hour, westbound to via Coleshill and eastbound to via.

CrossCountry operate trains through Birmingham to Manchester, the north east of England, and Scotland.

The station is managed by East Midlands Trains although CrossCountry also operate some services.

Additionally Arriva CrossCountry operate a limited service at Peak times.

Also, CrossCountry operate a daily service from Newcastle terminating at Eastleigh as well as terminating and starting journeys when engineering works are taking place between Southampton Central and Southampton Airport Parkway.

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" InterCity CrossCountry ", using the West Midlands sections of the WCML, was also greatly developed with the introduction of HST units transferred from the ECML after the latter's electrification.

On 9 December 2007 as part of a reshuffle of rail franchises by the Department for Transport, services from Birmingham New Street to Edinburgh Waverley and Glasgow Central via Crewe were transferred from the CrossCountry franchise to the InterCity West Coast franchise.

Chepstow is serviced by Arriva Trains Wales ; there is a service provided by CrossCountry Trains from Cardiff Central to Nottingham, via Birmingham New Street, in peek commuter times, and operated by Class 170 diesel multiple units constructed by Bombardier in Derby.

Regional services from Birmingham to Cambridge and Stansted Airport via Peterborough are provided by CrossCountry.

Some through services to and from London Paddington station and those operated by CrossCountry between Penzance and Scotland also stop.

* CrossCountry's Class 220 Voyagers, Class 221 Super Voyagers and, occasionally, HST sets that CrossCountry introduced after it took over from Virgin CrossCountry.

CrossCountry services heading North to York and beyond tend to depart from Platform 9 or 11 ; those heading South often use 12.

While intended for Virgin's West Coast franchise they were used to haul failed Virgin CrossCountry Class 220 Voyagers from as far as Aberdeen, Eastleigh and Plymouth on occasions.

* Platform 1 is an east facing bay platform which handles terminating local services and also some terminating long distance CrossCountry services from the south over the High Level Bridge.

* Platforms 9 to 12 are west facing bay platforms for various services, including Transpennine Express and some terminating services from the Carlisle direction, and on rare occasions, CrossCountry services.

Train services in the area are mainly operated by Northern Rail with additional services from First TransPennine Express, Virgin Trains, Arriva Trains Wales, CrossCountry and East Midlands Trains.

The station is managed by East Coast, whose services run south from platform 1 to Doncaster, Newark Northgate, Grantham, Retford, Peterborough, Stevenage and London Kings Cross and north from platform 2 to Outwood, Leeds and further north to York, Newcastle and Scotland operated by CrossCountry.

CrossCountry services stopped at East Croydon on the route to Brighton which was withdrawn in December 2008.

Other operators are CrossCountry ( providing services to Birmingham, Manchester Piccadilly and Newcastle ), First Great Western ( to Bristol Temple Meads and Cardiff Central ) and Southern, which links Southampton to London Victoria, Gatwick Airport, Brighton & London Bridge following a similar route excluding Gatwick Airport.

* December 1 GE Commercial Finance and Southern Union complete purchase of CrossCountry Energy.

Along with Kensington Olympia, East Croydon was until 13 December 2008 one of two stations in the London area to be served by CrossCountry.

Since December 2005 a number of long distance services operated by CrossCountry Trains have stopped at Morpeth.

As of December 2007, Leamington station is served by three passenger train operators: Chiltern Railways, CrossCountry, and London Midland.

However, from December 2008, CrossCountry are cutting the service on weekdays from 7 to 4 northbound services and from 4 ( 5 on Fridays ) to 2 southbound services.

Until December 2008 a small number of CrossCountry services also stopped here.

In December 2008, CrossCountry launched its new timetable with most trains operating between Bournemouth and, with one service originating at and one service on Saturdays terminating at.

As of December 2010 an hourly CrossCountry train goes runs from to Manchester Piccadilly, via, calling at Southampton Central.

Since the May 2010 timetable started, an early morning CrossCountry service to Glasgow Central via Bristol, Birmingham, Sheffield, Leeds, Newcastle and Edinburgh starts at Bath.

* South West-Birmingham-the North West ( CrossCountry ): Penzance — Birmingham — Glasgow, via the West Coast Main Line ( ceased after the change of CrossCountry franchise in 2007 )

* South Coast-Birmingham-Northern England and Scotland ( CrossCountry ): Bournemouth — Reading — Birmingham — Manchester — Newcastle — Edinburgh ( also ceased after the change of CrossCountry franchise in 2007 )