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TransPennine North West is one of the three rail services provided by First TransPennine Express, running in Northern England. It runs from Manchester Airport to Windermere, Kendal and Barrow-in-Furness, via Lancaster, Preston, Bolton and Manchester Piccadilly. It uses sections of the Styal Line, Manchester to Preston Line, West Coast Main Line, Furness Line and Windermere Branch Line. This route was formerly operated by First North Western.
From December 2007, this part of the First TransPennine Express network expanded to serve Penrith, Carlisle, Lockerbie, Carstairs, Motherwell, Glasgow Central, and the route to Haymarket and Edinburgh Waverley. First TransPennine Express took over these services from Virgin West Coast, who took over these routes on a temporary basis following the takeover of the Cross Country franchise by CrossCountry.
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