Passenger trains served Surrey, Sussex and parts of Hampshire and Kent. The network was previously part of the Southern Region of British Railways and later Network SouthEast. Before privatisation, the part of Network SouthEast which was to become Connex South Central was known as Network SouthCentral. Services used the London termini of Victoria and London Bridge. In 1997 a new service from Gatwick Airport to Rugby began, via the West Coast Main Line, using class 319 dual-voltage rolling stock. It was later curtailed to Watford Junction in the early 2000s, but extended southwards to Brighton.