Intercity Transport Group

Intercity Transport Group is the Franchise Holder for Intercity Local, Intercity Regional and Intercity Express which run rail services around the Ashfield District, Northbury District, Rolina and Redpool District and Westerfield District, Stopping at stations such as Westerfield, Ashfield Bridge and Northbury Marine among other stations. The Company Obtained the Franchise in 2019 and has recently refurbished following a change in operations for the lines, the Franchise now operates in Westerfield County.

The routes run are classified as a Local, Regional and Express railways and the Operators are named after these, due to its Planned Release of Version 0.5 and Construction work ongoing between Salterforth (Westerfield) and Redpool certain services have had to be cut/cancelled from the July 2020 Timetable, However players will still get a chance to drive/ride on these routes in Version 0.6. Intercity Transport Group have vowed to make all stations have step free access by Beta Version 0.7 with a hope that this will boost passenger numbers.

2019
ITG Company was created proposing 3 lines to the local government in Oct 2019 and planning permission was filled for new stations and track extensions.

Nov 2019 Planning permission was denied but the lines were accepted and were set to run in Jan 2020

2020
Jan 2020 with ITG being unable to provide the lines as accepted by the Government in 2019 ITG lost their pre-qualification questionnaire (PQQ) passport and subsequently nothing came of Intercity Local, Regional and Express Lines until April 2020

29th Feb 2020 ITG regained their PQQ Passport but nothing came of this until a month later

28th Mar 2020 ITG Planned to move operations to a new base in Westerfield County and they got planning permission before applying for the 3 lines to be run.

3rd Apr 2020 Planning permission for the 18 new stations were approved as this would boost economy and would allow passengers easy access to the heart of the city, ITG then applied for running 3 new lines and got a response within hours

4th Apr 2020 (Very early in the morning) The lines were accepted and were due to start running in July 2020 but with one government requirement, the Lines were all obligated to run at least 1 service into Westerfield. Timetables were created and building had begun on multiple stations.

30th June 2020 The final station names were decided upon and certain services had to be cut back due to certain stations still being unbuilt due to slow construction times and Coronavirus slowing work down. Despite this ITG was determined to still see a service (albeit reduced) from July 2020 so with 10 Stations built and Timetables planned to run to all 10 of them and Westerfield the wait was on for WCR Players as to when Version 0.5 would release so Drivers and Players could run the July 2020 timetable.

Owned

 * None at this time

Using

 * Westerfield Express (Depot)/Overground (Depot) while Westerfield Station (Depot) is still waiting for planning permission and Westerfield Parkway (Depot) is still under construction

Future

 * Westerfield Parkway (Depot)
 * Horton/Kingston (Depot)

Proposed

 * Westerfield (Depot)

Current (Not In Use)

 * Northbury Marine Sidings
 * Salterforth Sidings

Future

 * Redpool Sidings

Proposed

 * Ashfield Town Sidings
 * Rolina Sidings

Current

 * Northbury Victoria


 * Northbury Marine


 * Ashfield Bridge


 * Market Street


 * Ashfield Central


 * Broughton Interchange


 * TeJay Road


 * Ashfield Town


 * Westerfield Parkway


 * Salterforth (Westerfield)

Former

 * Not at this time.

Future

 * Newton Road


 * Horton


 * Kingston East


 * Kingston South


 * Rolina


 * Rolina-On-Sea


 * Redpool Pier


 * Redpool

Proposed

 * None at the current time.

Trivia

 * This is the Only Franchise holder that owns more than 2 Operators and is technically is the oldest as ITG was created in Oct 2019 and WCR didn't exist till Dec 2019 but it is the first official one in WCR