London North Eastern Railway (LNER) is a British train operating company. It is owned by DfT OLR Holdings for the Department for Transport (DfT). The company's name echoes that of the London and North Eastern Railway, one of the Big Four companies which operated between 1923 and 1948.
Three generations of East Coast Main Line trains at York. A Class 43 InterCity 125 (left) with a Class 800 Azuma (centre) and a InterCity 225 (right)
Image: Virgin Trains East Coast Mk 4 by Matt Buck
Image: 82208 Potters Bar 090923 09.04 KX Leeds
Image: An LNER Azuma train on the East Coast Railway Line, geograph 6275180 by Walter Baxter
Virgin Trains East Coast (VTEC) was a train operating company in the United Kingdom that operated the InterCity East Coast franchise on the East Coast Main Line between London, Yorkshire, the North East and Scotland. It commenced operations on 1 March 2015, taking over from East Coast as a joint venture between Stagecoach (90%) and Virgin Group (10%).
InterCity 225 and HST at London King's Cross in May 2017
Class 800 in Virgin Trains East Coast livery
Image: 43 316 at Kings Cross by Hugh Llewelyn
Image: IC125@40 TS 42210 at York