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(Aidan Stanger) wrote:

Jack Taylor wrote:

wrote:
Graeme Wall wrote:

There isn't a TOC which runs the HEX service. HEX is operated by HEX
for the BAA.

So you're saying that HEX is a company that operates trains, but it's
not a train operating company...?

It is a train operating company (a company that runs additional trains on
the national network). It is not a Train Operating Company (a company that
has bought the franchise to operate a specified set of services within a
geographical area, according to DfT minimum service requirements), the
successors to the BR Train Operating Units.

TLAs don't have to be capitalized in their expanded form to be
abbreviated.

They don't even have to be separate words! TNT is trinitrotoluene,

A pedant writes:

Tri-Nitro-Toluene, it is not one word

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Graeme Wall
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