The Thames Trains franchise was awarded a 7 year franchise by the Director of Passenger Rail Franchising to Victory Rail Holdings Limited, a company owned by Go-Ahead ( 65. 2 %) and some ex British Rail managers ( 34. 8 %).

Thames Trains operated the train which was involved in the Ladbroke Grove rail crash in October 1999.

Thames Trains ran passenger services from along the Great Western Main Line from London Paddington to Greenford, Windsor & Eton Central, Marlow, Henley, Reading, Bedwyn, Oxford, Bicester Town, Worcester, Hereford and Stratford-upon-Avon.

Pictures of various Thames Trains Thames Turbo / Turbo Express interiors and a Cab ( locomotive ) | cab shot are from 2000 to 2004 are of the following parts-( clockwise, from top left ) 1st class, the driver's Cab ( locomotive ) | cab, 2nd class Class 166 seats and 2nd class Class 165 seats.

Trains depart in the eastbound direction due to the curve under the River Thames.

Pressure after several fatal train crashes has reversed this trend for now to the point some TOCs have restored Guards to services that were stripped of them, First Great Western did this to certain services it acquired when it took over the operation of Thames Trains.

Currently, rail services are provided by First Great Western who took over the Thames Trains franchise in 2003 / 4.

Trains to and from Charing Cross go over Hungerford Bridge to cross the River Thames.

Richmond station ( London ) is a National Rail and London Underground station in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames in south west London which is managed by South West Trains.

At about 08: 06 BST on 5 October 1999 a Thames Trains train for Bedwyn in Wiltshire left Paddington Station.

Trains from south of the River Thames on the extended Thameslink network may call at the station from 2018, when the present Sutton Loop trains will terminate at London Blackfriars.

Thames Trains was fined a record £ 2 million for violations of health and safety law in connection with this accident.

From 1996 services were provided by Thames Trains until the franchise merged with First Great Western.

First Great Western Link was the former Go-Ahead Group-operated Thames Trains franchise that had been operated since April 2004 by First Group.

They later passed into the sole control of Go-Ahead Group, which operated them as Thames Trains.

James Mitchell created the British television series When the Boat Comes In ( BBC ) and Callan ( Thames Television ) and wrote many TV scripts, including episodes for The Troubleshooters, the legal drama Justice and The Avengers.

Legally these companies still exist, with buses in Warwickshire and Banbury still carrying legal lettering for Midland Red ( South ) Ltd, whilst buses in Oxford ( including the Oxford Tube ) and Witney are legally lettered for Thames Transit Ltd.

When the ships finally dropped anchor in the Thames River on 14 October 1711, a legal battle ensued, with the investors paying the East India Company £ 6, 000 ( about £ 666, 000 at 2009 values ) as settlement for their claim for breach of monopoly, about four percent of what Rogers brought back.

This followed Firoz Kassam's purchase of the club in April 1999, and then many legal problems involving Oxford City Council, Nick Pentith, Thames Water, Morrells of Oxford, and local landowner Les Wells.

After a merger in July 1968 ABC Television became Thames Television which continued production of the series, although it was still broadcast under the ABC name.

M. K. Lawson in his Dictionary of National Biography article on Harthacnut states that it is unclear whether Harthacnut was to have England as well as Denmark, but it was probably a reflection of a formal arrangement that mints south of the Thames produced silver pennies in his name, while those to the north were almost all Harold's.

Staines-upon-Thames, often referred to by its former name Staines (), is a town on the north bank of the River Thames in the borough of Spelthorne in Surrey, England ( historically in Middlesex ).

Two songs by The Kinks prominently feature the Thames, not by name, but by implication.

* Thames, the name of one of the sea areas of the British Shipping Forecast.

The name of the hamlet of Charing is derived from the old English word " cierring ", referring to the nearby bend in the River Thames.

Another theory is that it was given this name by the maintenance staff, because the tunnels, passing under the River Thames, leak considerably allowing much water to enter.

The name Charing probably comes from the Anglo-Saxon word cerring, a bend, as it stands on the outside of a 90-degree bend in the River Thames ( see Charing in Kent ).

Execution Dock was actually by Wapping Old Stairs and generally used for pirates .< ref name = brit >< cite > The Thames Tunnel, Ratcliff Highway and Wapping, Old and New London: Volume 2 ( 1878 ), pp. 128-37 Retrieved 29 March 2007 </ cite ></ ref >

Tamesis was the ancient name for the River Thames.

However, for the Thames Diamond Jubilee Pageant on 3 June 2012 this boat had the name " T. H.

Despite its name, it does not serve the northernmost stations on the network, although it does serve the southernmost station ( Morden tube station ) as well as 16 of the system's 29 stations south of the River Thames.

Historically a part of Surrey, the area takes its name from the old village of Battersea, an island settlement established in the river delta of the Falconbrook ; a river that rises in Tooting Bec Common and flows underground through south London to the River Thames.

moved to a new stadium on Coldblow Lane in 1910, having previously played in Millwall, but have kept their original name despite playing at the opposite side of the River Thames to the Millwall area.

** Hilton Docklands Nelson Dock Pier, the official name of a pier on the south bank of the River Thames in Rotherhithe, London

The area gives its name to Limehouse Reach, a section of the Thames which runs from Shadwell, through Ratcliff and then Limehouse and on to Millwall.

Thamesmead is the name given to a group of disparate mainly social housing developments built from the late 1960s onwards mostly on former marshland on the southern banks of the River Thames, between the established towns of Woolwich and Belvedere.

Wandsworth takes its name from the River Wandle, which enters the Thames at Wandsworth.

The area was first settled by Saxons, from whom it takes its name ( meaning literally " place of Wæppa's people ").< ref >< cite > Waeppa's People-a History of Wapping by Madge Darby-ISBN 0 947699 </ cite ></ ref > It developed along the embankment of the Thames, hemmed in by the river to the south and the now-drained Wapping Marsh to the north.

John Stow, the 16th century historian, described it as a " continual street, or a filthy strait passage, with alleys of small tenements or cottages, built, inhabited by sailors ' victuallers ".< ref name = brit >< cite >' The Thames Tunnel, Ratcliff Highway and Wapping ', Old and New London: Volume 2 ( 1878 ), pp. 128-37 accessed: 29 March 2007 </ cite ></ ref >

The name ' Richmond upon Thames ' was coined at that time ; it is now commonly but inaccurately used to refer to Richmond only.

The name comes from the area around the Thames, particularly its Estuary.

The CDP takes its name from the Oxoboxo River, a tributary of the Thames River that flows through the CDP.

It fronted on the north the Strand, on the site of the present Savoy Theatre and the Savoy Hotel which memorialise its name and on the south the River Thames.

* Edinburgh ( Thames Estuary ; the name refers to the Edinburgh Channel )