name: First TransPennine Express Limited
notes:  This authority no longer existsThis body was replaced, as operator of Transpennine Express trains, on 28 May 2023, by Transpennine Trains Limited, which is wholly owned by the Secretary of State for Transport, via DfT OLR Holdings Limited (DOHL) [1, 2, 3]
  
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  First Transpennine Express (TPE) was the operator of Transpennine Express services, which were provided under a franchise agreement [4] with the Department for Transport.TPE wasn't subject to Freedom of Information, however we listed it as we believe the company was subject to the Environmental Information Regulations (EIR).
  
   Railway companies have a number of special powers including powers of detention. See also paragraph 52 to 56 of the ruling in Fish Legal v IC & Ors which considers the type of 'special powers;' that mean a body is subject to EIR.