GB Railways was a company created in 1995 by Michael Schabas, Jeremy Long, Jim Morgan

Jim Morgan

Jim Morgan was an Australian rugby league footballer of the 1960s and 70s. He played at prop forward in the New South Wales Rugby Football League premiership for the South Sydney Rabbitohs and later the Eastern Suburbs Roosters, and also represented Australia.Hailing from Maitland, Morgan first...

 and Max Steinkopf to bid for British

United Kingdom

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 railway franchises. The company won the Anglia Railways

Anglia Railways

Anglia Railways was a British train operating company, owned by GB Railways, which between 5 January 1997 and 31 March 2004 operated mainline trains out of London Liverpool Street station and a number of local rail services in East Anglia....

 rail franchise in 1997. In 1999 it successfully acquired the passenger services of Australian National Railways, in a consortium including Serco and Macquarie Bank. GB Railways provided the business strategy which allowed Great Southern Railway to enter profitability. GB Railways sold its shares to Serco in 2002, which continues to operate the Ghan, Indian Pacific and Overland

Overland

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 services. In 2000 GB Railways launched Hull Trains, a new open access intercity rail operator, and GB Railfreight

GB Railfreight

GB Railfreight is a British freight train operating company. Formerly called First GBRf, its new owner Eurotunnel bought the company in May 2010.-History:...

. In 2004 the company was acquired by FirstGroup and lost the Anglia franchise to National Express

National Express Group

National Express Group plc is a British transport group headquartered in Birmingham that operates bus, coach, rail and tram services in the UK, the US and Canada, Spain, Portugal and Morocco and long-distance coach routes across Europe...

.