From this Sunday, London Northwestern Railway and West Midlands Railway will join the growing list of operators owned by the public. The milestone will see two sides of the West Midlands Trains (WMT) business come under public ownership, marking the fourth operator to enter public ownership under the government’s Passenger Railway Services (Public Ownership) Act as part of the formation of Great British Railways (GBR). © Department for TransportLondon Northwestern Railway operates services between Liverpool and Birmingham and along the West Coast Main Line to and from London Euston, and West Midlands Railway, serves destinations across the West Midlands via Birmingham New Street and Birmingham Snow Hill. Thus far, West Midlands Trains, Greater Anglia, c2c, Northern, TransPennine Express, Southeastern, LNER and South Western Railway have come under DfT Operator Limited (DFTO) management. Ian McConnell, managing director of West Midlands Trains, said: We are proud to be one of the fastest-growing train operators in the country with millions of passengers travelling on London Northwestern Railway (LNR) and West Midlands Railway (WMR) services every month.