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Trainline, formerly branded Thetrainline.com, is an online seller of train tickets for British train services. It sells tickets through its website, by telephone, and through its mobile app which is available on iOS, Windows Phone and Android platforms. Trainline's main offices are in London and Edinburgh.〔http://www.thetrainlinejobs.com/departments/〕 Trainline's main competitor (in train booking software) is Atos's WebTIS product, which is used by Chiltern Railways, Southern, Southeastern, London Midland and Atos's own site redspottedhanky.com. First Capital Connect and First Great Western moved from Trainline based booking engine to Atos's WebTIS product in November 2012. ==History== It was created in 1997 and online ticket sales began in 1999. Trainline ltd was formerly part of the Virgin Group and is now owned by private equity investors and management. The business has expanded significantly in the last eight years, acquiring its main online competitor Qjump from National Express Group in February 2004. In addition to the online service provided direct to customers operated under its own brands ''Trainline'' and ''Qjump'', it provides the website services for 8 of the 20 UK train operating companies who sell tickets online under their own brands, as well as providing a rail business travel service direct to a number of large blue chip corporations, travel management companies and travel agents. Trainline also provides a call centre service to a number of the customers referred to above. In July 2006, Exponent Private Equity acquired Trainline, for £168 million. Trainline was bought from a consortium of shareholders that included the Virgin, Stagecoach and National Express transport groups. In July 2007, Trainline acquired Advanced Smartcard Technologies and ECEBS Ltd, signalling a new strategy to enter the smartcard market. Ecebs was subsequently sold to Bell ID in November 2012. In 2008, Trainline started supplying Newbury Data ND4020 rail ticket printers and self-service kiosks to its corporate and travel management clients. Customers are now able to collect a ticket from over 1000 railway stations.〔http://www.thetrainline.com/train-tickets/mobile-app/〕 The company was bought from Exponent by the private equity firm KKR in January 2015. In August 2015, the company announced it had changed its name from thetrainline.com to Trainline. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Trainline」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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