LONDON: Hong Kong subway operator MTR Corporation has been picked to help run South West Trains, one of Britain’s biggest rail franchises, the government said on Monday.

MTR will operate SWT services alongside British train and bus company FirstGroup over the next seven years, the Department for Transport (DfT) announced in a statement.

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