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Baby Deltic When exhaust comes out of a loco in big sizes -
1955 Modernisation Plan
However most railway historians now regard it as a costly failure and a missed opportunity; an attempt was made to simply update the railways as they already stood rather than reacting to changes in the -
BR Liveries
BR had many liveries over the years, including the famous BR Blue. Many of these liveries where trile liveries for the BR Corporate livery. -
People
E. H. F. Willoughby A[] L. Abberley - Shrewsbury [1959], WR Football Team [1959], D. Aggett - Signalman, Bovey Box [1959], Signalman, Cullompton Box [1959], H. Andrews - Subganger, Gloucester [1959], G. H. Anthony - Station Master, Plymouth North -
Coaches & Wagons
Coaches and wagons had there own parts to play in British Railways. In the TOPS each coach or wagon had a coad and this was used in programing. -
TOPS
Total Operations Processing System, or TOPS, is a computer system for managing the locomotives and rolling stock owned by and/or operated on a rail system. It was originally developed by the American-based Southern -
Time Line
1940s[] 1st January 1948 - British Railways Formed from GWR, LMS, LNER and SR., 17th April 1948 - Winsford Collision (24 people killed), 17th May 1948 - Battyeford Collision, 17th June 1948 - New Southgate Derailment (1 person killed -
British Railways Workshops
There were a total of 12 workshops around the UK at sites such as: Ashford, Brighton, Crewe, Darlington, Derby, Doncaster, Eastleigh, Gorton, Horwich, Swindon, Wolverton and York. They where all taken over by BR from -
Mark 1 Coach
British Railways Mark 1 was the family designation for the first standardised designs of railway carriages built by British Railways. Following nationalisation in 1948, BR had continued to build carriages to the designs of the -
Headcoads
Headcoads was a manor in which a display was set on the front of a train, this helped station staff and signalmen identifiy the train. Disks or lamps where the manor in which steam locos -
Pullman
Pullman trains in Great Britain were mainline luxury railway services that operated with first-class coaches and a steward service, provided by the British Pullman Car Company. East Coast Main Line[] Harrogate Pullman (London Kings -
British Rail Engineering Limited
British Rail Engineering Limited (BREL), incorporated on 31 October 1969, was the railway systems engineering subsidiary of British Rail until the design and building of trains in the UK was privatised in 1989. The vast -
Railway Technical Centre
The Railway Technical Centre (RTC) in London Road, Derby, England, was built by the British Railways Board in the early 1960s to be its technical headquarters. British Rail was able to announce that "The Railway -
Network SouthEast
Network SouthEast (NSE) was one of the three passenger sectors of British Rail formed in 1982 from the Southern Region. NSE principally operated commuter trains in the London area and inter-urban services in densely -
Mark 3 Coach
The British Rail Mark 3 is a type of passenger carriage developed in response to growing competition from airlines and the car in the 1960s. A variant of the Mark 3 became the rolling stock -
Advanced Passenger Train
The Advanced Passenger Train (APT) was a tilting high speed train developed by British Rail during the 1970s and early 1980s, for use on the West Coast Main Line (WCML). The WCML contained many curves -
Multiple Unit Famlies
This is a list of DMUs, EMUs and DEMUs famlies. -
BR Logos
British Rail has had many diffrent logos over its years oparating. -
InterCity
InterCity (or, in the earliest days, the hyphenated Inter-City) was introduced by British Rail in 1966 as a brand-name for its long-haul express passenger services. In 1986 the British Railways Board divided -
BR Regions
The North Eastern Region was merged with the Eastern Region in 1967. In the 1980s, the regions were abolished and replaced by "business sectors", a process known as sectorisation. The Anglia Region was created in -
Signaling
BR inherited many different types of signals from the Big Four. A Home signal is a signal that indicates two aspects, go and stop. There were two main types, an Upper Quadrant Signal (Ex LMS -
Flying Saucer
The British Rail flying saucer, officially known simply as space vehicle, was a proposed spacecraft designed by Charles Osmond Frederick. The flying saucer originally started as a proposal for a lifting platform. However, the project -
Rail Express Systems
Rail Express Systems was a sector of British Rail. Upon the sectorisation of British Rail during the 1980s, the Parcels Sector was created. In 1991, this was re-branded as Rail Express Systems. This sector -
Sectorisation
Sectorisation is the Act of spliting up the BR Regions into sub-brands. These include: Island Line - services on the Isle of Wight. (Part of Network SouthEast)., Mersyrail - services in Mersyside., Network NorthWest - services in -
Privatisation
Privatisation occurred in 1994 although the last train was run by BR in 1997.
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