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	British rail timetable - Network Rail - Home
		National Rail Enquiries - Official source for rail information, UK Guide to UK national rail services, provided on behalf of the Association of Train Operating Companies.
		The National Rail telephone enquiry number is 08457 48 49 50.
		British Rail timetables are copyright of National Rail.
	xn--30rzb623y.com /jhyw/british-rail-timetable.html (434 words)

	European Rail Pass, Euro Rail Pass, Europe Rail Pass, British Rail Pass
		Holland Rail Pass - Unlimited travel on Netherlands rail network - Choice of two pass durations: any 3 days or any 5 days in 1 month; Travel days may be used consecutively or non-consecutively, First or Second class train travel.
		Spain Rail Pass - All trains reach out to the great cities from Madrid, which is the geographical and cultural center.
		Rail 'n Drive: a combination of rail and car rental - Combining rail and car travel in Europe combines the best of both worlds.
	www.european-railpass.com (1210 words)

	British Rail Pass, Britrail Passes, Britrail Flexi Pass & Youth Pass - Britain on Rail
		British rail passes provide you with significant discounts when you travel by the British railways.
		Since the rail services are very convenient in Britain, you can easily commute between different places.
		Britainonrail.com presents rail passes which are convenient for all.
	www.britainonrail.com /britishrail-pass.htm (1522 words)

	British Rail Fares and Schedules, BritRail pass, England trains timetable- BritishRail.com
		As the official outlet for British Rail in the U.S., we can help you explore the big cities like London and Edinburgh as well as quaint countryside villages (Cotswolds, anyone?) Say cheers to the United Kingdom with British Rail.com's wide selection of train products.
		British Rail.com is quite easy to use, so you won’t get your knickers in a twist trying to navigate it.
		British Rail.com offers rail passes in single, youth and saver versions.
	www.britishrail.com (233 words)

	DalesRail - About
		The trains called at stations which were specially re-opened for the service, they had been closed by British Rail in 1970.
		The service was provided initially by the Yorkshire Dales National Park Committee in co-operation with British Rail, the National Bus Company and other organisations including the Countryside Commission and West Yorkshire Passenger Transport Authority.
		As a result the County Council and other organisations gave grants to British Rail to bring the station up to the standard required for use on occasional basis.
	www.dalesrail.com /about.htm (566 words)

	British Rail
		Supporting rail operations are 13 engineering factories, the largest railway research centre in the world, 40 ships in European waters, the world's largest hovercraft, hotels and train catering services.
		British Rail Engineering Limited (BREL) has 13 factories throughout Britain which are responsible for the manufacture, maintenance, repair and refurbishing of all locomotives and rolling stock for British Rail.
		British Rail's subsidiaries Sealink UK Ltd. and British Rail Hovercraft Ltd. (Seaspeed), in partnership with European shipping organisations and railways, operate shipping and hovercraft services linking continental Europe with Britain, Ireland and the Channel Islands.
	www.apt-p.com /LeafletBritishRailTriLanguage.htm (678 words)

	British Rail - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		British Railways (BR), later rebranded as British Rail, ran the British railway system from the nationalisation of the 'Big Four' British railway companies in 1948 until its privatisation in stages between 1994 and 1997.
		British Railways came into existence on 1 January 1948 with the merger of the Big Four, under the control of the Railway Executive of the British Transport Commission (BTC).
		The failure of the Modernisation Plan led to a distrust of British Rail's financial planning abilities by the Treasury which was to dog BR for the rest of its existence.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/British_Rail (2390 words)

	British Rail Class 47 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The British Rail Class 47 diesel locomotive also known as a Brush Type Four is a class of British locomotive.
		It was specially repainted in its original British Railway two-tone green livery, and given its original number of D1748, to commemorate the retirement of the First Great Western Class 47 fleet.
		Since privatisation of British Rail, numerous spot-hire companies have arisen to take advantage of the requirement for locomotives at short-notice, rescue locomotives, and locomotives for charter trains.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/British_Rail_Class_47 (1456 words)

	ipedia.com: British Rail Article (Site not responding. Last check: )
		British Railways (BR), later rebranded as British Rail, ran the British railway system, between the nationalisation of the 'Big Four' British railway companies in 1948 until it was privatised in stages between 1994 and 1997.
		The British Railways Board was created in the early 1960s, taking over from the former British Transport Commission which, in addition to the railway, was also responsible for the waterways (canals) and road freight transport.
		Between the mid-1960s and mid-1970s the size of the British rail network was reduced from around 20,000 miles to 12,000 miles as a result of the "Beeching Axe", the cost-cutting review conducted by BR Chairman Dr Richard Beeching.
	www.ipedia.com /british_rail.html (516 words)

	Railroad
		Though the rail system was extremely slow at first and prohibitively expensive to build and run, the British were not to be dissuaded in their pursuit of non-animal driven transportation.
		Some rails were still made of wood, others iron and the first trains traveled at the pace of 3.5 miles per hour, significantly slower than the horse drawn coach which traveled at a speed of 9-10 miles per hour.
		For some of the population the British Rail System offered employment opportunities such as: men moving large amounts of dirt for tracks and tunnels; railway stations had to employ people to serve food and maintain the station; manual signalers were required; and people to actually work on the trains.
	www.gober.net /victorian/reports/railroad.html (1783 words)

	InterCity (British Rail) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		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 (see British Rail brand names for a full history).
		The InterCity livery originally consisted of standard British Rail corporate blue with just the brand "InterCity" added in white lettering on each coach (although Inter-City 125 trains treated differently the locomotives at each end of each train, with extensive additional yellow panels - these gave the trains their nicknames of "flying bananas").
		After the privatisation of British Rail, InterCity trains were operated by Anglia Railways (later 'One'), Great Western Trains (later First Great Western), Virgin Trains (West Coast and Cross Country franchises), Midland Mainline, Gatwick Express and GNER.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/InterCity_(British_Rail) (466 words)

	National Rail at AllExperts
		The brand and ATOC are jointly owned by the privatised passenger rail companies of Great Britain, which were formed out of British Rail, the now-defunct state-owned rail operator.
		The term is usually used to distinguish these services from rail passenger services in the Great Britain that do not have a British Rail background.
		British Rail's operations never stretched to Northern Ireland, which has its own rail operator in Northern Ireland Railways (NIR).
	en.allexperts.com /e/n/na/national_rail.htm (714 words)

	British Rail (Site not responding. Last check: )
		British Rail has written off £500m on its Channel tunnel freight service investment as it does not believe it will be profitable in the near future.
		Freightliner, the British Rail container operation, has been acquired by management and plans to expand volumes by 50% over the next five years by increasing its number of locomotives from 60 to 100.
		British Rail is selling the Central Infrastructure Maintenance Company to GT Railway Maintenance and also it is selling Western Infrastructure Maintenance to Amey Railways.
	www.ukbusinesspark.co.uk /brl23479.htm (431 words)

	British Railways (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The British Rail Corporate Identity Manual states that the top arrow of the logo on the British Rail flag should always point towards the staff.
		(The majority of British Rail flags were presumably made from one piece of fabric rather than right- reading both sides.) Since the convention in flag books is to have the staff on the left, this accounts for the flag being "back to front" but it is not wrong, as Roy Stilling suggests.
		As far as I am aware, the British Rail flag was the only instance where it was acceptable to mirror the BR symbol although, from time to time, on roadsigns etc., one sees instances of the BR symbol crudely being reversed where it should not be!
	www.crwflags.com /fotw/flags/gb_brail.html (772 words)

	British Rail, 1974-97 Journal of Transport History, The - Find Articles
		Terry Gourvish's history of British Rail largely is a history of such debates in England between the Treasury, the Department of Transport, and the British Railways Board from 1974 until privatisation.
		Part II examines the evolution of the railways under Margaret Thatcher from 1979 to 1989, a time when British Rail's management structure was radically transformed and its ancillary businesses were sold to the private sector, but the core railway business was still not threatened with privatisation.
		Part III examines the period from 1990 to 1994, when the government dithered on the question of privatising British Rail, and the British Rail Board further reorganised itself into a structure that it felt would be suitable for privatisation.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3884/is_200403/ai_n9394482 (751 words)

	Travel By British Rail
		There are some short stretches of jointed rail, but these appear to be in places due for replacement as lengths of continuous rail were laid in storage between the running rails.
		Rail travel is so effective in Britain that this pass and some careful selection of cheap (relatively anyway) hotels eliminated the need to rent a car for the whole trip.
		Since the rail office was closed, we could not convert our BritRail vouchers into rail passes so that we could ride the shuttle, so we took the Underground to a stop near our hotel.
	www.trainweb.org /girr/england/uk_trip.html (4111 words)

	The Privatization of Public Utilities Can Be a Disaster
		The disasters that have overtaken electricity privatization in California and rail privatization in Britain have failed to provoke much comment on a basic issue, which is how often people in power are prepared to let themselves become prisoners of ideology.
		In the British rail case, the irresponsibility and haste (politically motivated) that went into the program for deregulating a state-controlled railroad industry already in desperate straits is now all but universally acknowledged.
		The new British rail companies all chose management teams heavy in financial specialists rather than composed of the people really needed: managers experienced in heavy engineering enterprises, able to grasp and remedy the rail companies' fundamental deficiencies.
	www.commondreams.org /views01/0222-04.htm (966 words)

	British Rail Cartoons
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		There are more than 10 "british rail" cartoons click here to view the full selection.
	www.cartoonstock.com /directory/b/british_rail.asp (855 words)

	Britrail fares and schedules, Brit Rail pass US site: Rail Europe
		Ride the British rails to the land of royals and roof razing pubs.
		Rail Europe is the official outlet for British Rail in the U.S. We can help you explore the big cities like London and Edinburgh as well as quaint countryside villages.
		Offers unlimited travel on the rail networks of England with a 50% discount for the 3rd to 9th passenger traveling together at all times.
	www.raileurope.com /us/rail/passes/uk_index.htm (390 words)

	British Rail Fares and Timetables
		The rail network consists of one company who maintains and owns the track and other operating companies who operate the train services upon the track.
		British rail fares and timetables are thus very complex.
		To cut through all this confusion, a one stop source of British rail fares and British timetables is available and called "The Trainline".
	www.londontoolkit.com /briefing/rail_services.htm (435 words)

	London Travel Center - british rail pass,train ticket uk,british rail tickets,britrail pass,eurostar
		Sightseeing by rail can be the most fun and relaxing part of your entire vacation.
		"British Rail" is the name of the national railway system that services Britain.
		In any case, there is always the right rail pass for you depending on your travel plans.
	www.londontravelcenter.com /rail.html (131 words)

	British Rail - Transport International Shopping at dooyoo.co.uk
		As an employee of the rail industury, one question seems to reign supreme: "Were we better off before privatisation?" My overall view is no BUT I do have major reservations about the way the system is being run.
		The main benefit of the old BR system is that when we had a problem on the line i.e Manchester to London I would be able to find new route and send you on it, (via sheffield to St Pancreas usually).
		This is the major disadvantage at present is the fragmentation of the rail companies and the fact we have 26 TOCs (Train Operating Companies) who seem unable to work together to support the infrastructure.
	www.dooyoo.co.uk /transport-international/british-rail (254 words)

	Agence France Presse English: British rail buffs injured as Bone-Breaker Tour goes wrong@ HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Twelve amateur rail enthusiasts were slightly injured when a special train they were travelling in hurtled into buffers at a station in southeast England, transport police said.
		The injured, part of a group of some 400 mostly rail enthusiasts, were taking part on the last run of the Class 58 diesel series on a ride called the "Bone Breaker Tour" the nickname given to the class.
		According to British rail company Railtrack, the train hit buffers at Walton on the Naze station at...
	www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1P1:55675809&refid=holomed_1 (218 words)

	The Privatization of British Rail (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The former British government succeeded in privatizing all of British Rail before the Labour party won the election on May 1st.
		British franchise periods are usually seven years, but those involving a requirement to buy new trains usually run to 15 years.
		NP and Direct Rail Services are two companies that have started rail freight services with their own vehicles and staff.
	www.eriksrailnews.com /archive/thatcher.htm (2181 words)

	Railpass.com: Eurail, Britrail, Eurostar and more! Your source for worldwide rail passes and train tickets (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Railpass.com helps you choose the perfect rail pass or train tickets for your trip and helps you learn about the best ways to get the most out of your rail journeys.
		Railpass.com is the largest single rail pass outlet in the U.S., hundreds of thousands of satisfied rail travelers have purchased train tickets, rail passes or other travel products from Railpass.com.
		Railpass.com is a division of Wandrian, Inc. and are official agents for various leading Railways and Rail providers and distributors such as Eurail, BritRail, Trenitalia (Italian State Railways), SNCB (Belgian Railways), Amtrak and Rail Australia.
	www.railpass.com /new (194 words)

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