* 09006 / 007 / 019 / 024 carried Mainline Freight livery

Then, on 24 February 1996, British Rail's three trainload freight companies-Loadhaul Ltd, Mainline Freight Ltd and Transrail Freight Ltd-were acquired for a total of £ 225 million.

* February 24-The three British trainload freight companies, Load-Haul, Mainline Freight and Trans-Rail, are acquired together by North & South Railways Ltd, an affiliate of Wisconsin Central Ltd, as part of the privatisation of British Rail.

Loadhaul was created in 1994, along with Transrail and Mainline as part of the broadly regional split of British Rail's Trainload Freight trainload freight operations-Loadhaul's centre of operations were north east England, and south and east Yorkshire.

Mainline Freight, Loadhaul and Transrail Freight were purchased by a consortium led by Wisconsin Central in 1996 and amalgamated into a new company, English Welsh and Scottish Railway.

Transrail Freight was created in 1994 along with Mainline Freight and Loadhaul as part of the broadly regional split of British Rail's Trainload Freight trainload freight operations-Transrail Freight had the largest operating area of the three companies, operating in Scotland and the entire west of England ( south west, west midlands, and north west ), as well as Wales.

Mainline Freight, Loadhaul and Transrail Freight were purchased by a consortium led by Wisconsin Central in 1996 and amalgamated into a new company, English Welsh and Scottish Railway.

Mainline Freight was created in 1994 along with Transrail and Loadhaul as part of the broadly regional split of British Rail's Trainload Freight trainload freight operations-Mainline Freight's centre of operations were south east England, and east Anglia, and the East Midlands.

All three former Trainload Freight companies including Mainline Freight were acquired in Feb 1996 by ' North-South Railways ': a company formed by a consortium led by US railroad company Wisconsin Central, for a combined total of £ 225. 15million ( approximately $ 349 million ).

The management of Mainline Freight, backed by Candover and Associated British Ports also formed a bidding consortium for the three former Trainload Freight companies.

The company existed until 1994, when, as part of the privatisation process of British Rail it was split into three separate companies by region ; Load-Haul, Mainline Freight and Trans-Rail.

After the Railways Act 1993 the trainload business was split into regionally-based shadow franchises ; Load-Haul, Mainline Freight and Trans-Rail.

Initially operations were split between British Rail Load-Haul, Trans-Rail and Mainline Freight divisions.

Upon shadow privatisation of the UK freight business, Mainline Freight became the owners of the 50 strong fleet, which saw a small number re-painted into the operator's aircraft blue and silver livery, while others had Mainline Freight branding applied to the triple grey bodywork.

He was active in the Northern Baptist church, a Mainline Protestant denomination.

In 1947, the Gulag Angara prison labor camp was constructed near Bratsk, with capacity for up to 44, 000 prisoners for projects such as the construction of the railway from Tayshet to Ust-Kut via Bratsk ( now the western section of the Baikal-Amur Mainline ).

In 2000, the largest denominational group was the Evangelical Protestants ( with 10, 229 adherents ) and Mainline Protestants ( with 3, 593 adherents ).

As of 2000, Rowan County was the home of 25 Evangelical churches, four Mainline Protestant churches, one Catholic Church and one Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints ( LDS ) congregation.

129 of every 1000 residents was claimed by an Evangelical congregation ( 116th in rank ), 50 by a Mainline congregation ( 91st in rank ), 20 by the Catholic Church, and 37 by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.

In 1954-55, it acquired a stable of comic book properties from the defunct Superior Comics, Mainline Publications, St. John Publications, and most significantly, Fawcett Publications, which was shutting down its Fawcett Comics division.

Midland Mainline ( legal name Midland Main Line Limited, company no 3007934 ) was a train operating company in the United Kingdom owned by National Express that operated the Midland Main Line franchise from April 1996 until November 2007.

Midland Mainline was also awarded Passenger Operator of the Year 2006.

Midland Mainline was the only operator to offer complimentary free tea and coffee to all passengers, including those in standard class.

This referred to the trans-Siberian railway project called the Baikal-Amur Mainline, which was under construction at the time.

Mainline Airways LLC was tour operator in operation from 2002 to 2003 by an American college student, whom Massachusetts state authorities said didn't hold itself out to the public as a tour operator, instead pretending to be an airline offering cut-rate tickets between Honolulu and Los Angeles without the ability to actually provide the flights due to lack of an aircraft operating certificate (" AOC ").

The fact that the company was chartering the aircraft and not operating the flights themselves was hidden deep into the contract terms on the company's website, leading to rumors of illegitimacy that attracted the attention of the state attorney's office, who quickly filed suit against Mainline ex parte.

Mainline Airways was incorporated as Mainline Airways LLC in Pennsylvania on December 12, 2002.

However, in June 2003 Massachusetts Attorney General Thomas Reilly filed the well-publicized state lawsuit against Mainline and Luke Thompson alleging that the company would not perform the travel services paid for by customers that were to be executed beginning only 3 weeks after the suit was filed, and Reilly expressed a general concern that the company was nothing more than a fraud and Thompson was laundering large amounts of cash from the company.

Reilly's lawsuit had sought to shut down the company, obtain refunds for all customers, and $ 605, 000 in punitive damages from both Mainline and Thompson, but it was partially withdrawn in September 2004 and Thompson was not forced to pay a fine or damages.

Over a year after the suit and Mainline discontinued operations, on September 2, 2004, a settlement was reached and approved between Luke Thompson and the state, providing that no party admitted wrongdoing or liability, and for no fines or other penalties would be paid Thompson or Mainline ; the state had originally sought $ 605, 000 in fines.

The settlement formally ordered Mainline to refund all customers, but refunds had actually been provided in June 2003, only the company was not under court order to issue refunds until their settlement was approved ( just over a year later ).

Mainline service was downgraded to Continental Express service in the late 1980s.

In 1996 the group acquired its first UK rail franchises, Gatwick Express and Midland Mainline.

Berkhamsted is served by rail services from Berkhamsted railway station which is on the West Coast Mainline.

The nearest station to Dumfries on the West Coast Mainline is east along the A709 road at Lockerbie, and the nearest West Coast Mainline station linking directly to Dumfries by rail is Carlisle.

Midland Mainline rail bus link ran between Corby town centre and Kettering railway station

Mainline Passenger rail service in Newfoundland ended in 1969.

The city is an important rail junction, situated at the end of a branch line from Khabarovsk to the Baikal-Amur Mainline.

Four heritage rail operators, the Railway Enthusiasts Society, Steam Incorporated, Mainline Steam Trust and the Otago Excursion Train Trust, own and operate their own carriage and mainline-certified steam or diesel locomotive fleets.

The area is a very beautiful part of the Chiltern Hills, and is very popular with London executives due to its proximity to road ( Junction 3 of the M40 motorway at Loudwater ) and rail ( Mainline rail at Beaconsfield and London Underground at Amersham ) links into the city.

Sovetskaya Gavan is connected by rail to Komsomolsk-on-Amur, the section of line being the most easterly section of the Baikal-Amur Mainline.

Following the formation of the new East Midlands rail franchise on November 2007, the entire fleet of Class 222 Meridians was inherited by East Midlands Trains who operate the expanded East Midlands rail franchise including all those routes previously run by Midland Mainline.

It is also very popular with rail enthusiasts, as the station is situated on one of the fastest parts of the East Coast Mainline, and trains pass at speeds up to 125 mph.