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	Cinerail and Marsden Rail DVDs and Videos
		The West Highland line from Glasgow to Fort William and Mallaig is famed for its rugged scenery.Steam Class 5’s, B1’s, K1’s and K2’s plus a C15 powering the push/pull service to Arrochar, are featured plus NB Type 2’s, Class 20, 25 and 26 diesel locos in the early 1960s.
		Glasgow held a fascination for rail enthusiasts and Buchanan Street, Central and St. Enoch stations are featured with a wide variety of ex-LMS, LNER and BR locos and early diesels.
		The Tay Rail Bridge, Britain’s longest rail bridge at over two miles in length, is highlighted - together with it’s infamous predecessor, which collapsed in 1879 carrying seventy-five people to their deaths.
	www.cinerail.com /ros.html (1675 words)

	Privatisation of British Rail - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In 1988 British Rail Engineering Limited was split between the major engineering works, which became BREL (1988) Ltd, and the (mostly smaller) works that were used for day-to-day maintenance of rolling stock, which became British Rail Maintenance Limited (BRML).
		Foster Yeoman's class 59s proved extremely reliable, and it was not long before quarry company ARC and privatised power generator National Power also bought small numbers of Class 59s to haul their own trains.
		British Rail was to be broken up into over 100 separate companies, with all relationships between the successor companies controlled by legal contracts and supervised by the Office of the Rail Regulator and, in the case of the passenger railway, the Office of Passenger Rail Franchising (OPRAF).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Privatisation_of_British_Rail (4159 words)

	Mendip Rail - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It is composed of the rail-operation divisions of Foster Yeoman and Hanson Aggregates (previously ARC).
		Foster Yeoman is widely known for its rail logistics.
		Despite British Rail ensuring that only Class 56 diesel locomotives operate Foster Yeoman journeys, the reliability did not improve to Foster Yeoman's target of 95%.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mendip_Rail (577 words)

	Great Britain. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		The enclosures displaced many tenant farmers from their lands and produced a class of wandering, unemployed “sturdy beggars.” The Elizabethan poor laws were an attempt to deal with this problem.
		Britain’s overseas possessions (see British Empire) were augmented by the victorious outcome of the War of the Spanish Succession, ratified in the Peace of Utrecht (1713).
		Domestically the long ministry of Sir Robert Walpole (1721–42), during the reigns of George I and George II, was a period of relative stability that saw the beginnings of the development of the cabinet as the chief executive organ of government.
	www.bartleby.com /65/gr/GreatBri.html (7942 words)

	Privatisation of British Rail - UK Railways (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		In 1986 what may in retrospect be viewed as the harbinger of private rail operation occurred when the quarry company Foster Yeoman bought a small number of extremely powerful 3600 hp locomotives from General Motors' Electromotive Division (GM-EMD), designated British Rail Class 59, to operate mineral trains from their quarry in Wiltshire.
		Initially, British Rail was broken up into various units frequently based on its own organisational sectors (Train Operating Units, Infrastructure Maintenance Units, etc.) still controlled by the British Railways Board, but which were sold off over the next few years.
		In the original privatisation plan, Railtrack would have been the last part of British Rail to be sold, but with the approach of a General Election in 1997 Railtrack was hastily privatised in May 1996 in a successful attempt to make Labour's planned renationalisation of the railways impossible.
	ukrailways.wikia.com /wiki/Privatisation_of_British_Rail (2496 words)

	Green Car Congress: Rail (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		The Rail Runner is one of the first commuter rail systems in the country to use biodiesel.
		Rail Runner locomotives produce about 3,600 horsepower and are capable of running speeds in excess of 100 mph.
		The California High Speed Rail Authority (CHSRA) voted unanimously to approve their environmental impact report (EIR) on one of the nation’s largest proposed transportation projects, thereby moving one step closer toward actually building the 700-mile system that has been under discussion since 1996.
	www.greencarcongress.com /rail/index.html (4982 words)

	British Rail Class 03 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The British Rail Class 03 locomotive is, together with Class 04, one of BR's most successful smaller 0-6-0 diesel-mechanical shunters.
		The class, numbering 230 examples, was built by British Railways' Swindon and Doncaster works in 1957-1962 and numbered D2000-D2399 (later 03004 to 03399).
		Class 03, no. D2069, at Doncaster Works open day on 27th July 2003.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/British_Rail_Class_03 (820 words)

	YourArt.com >> Encyclopedia >> EWS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		The British Rail Class 66 is a development of the British Rail Class 59.
		Some of these locomotives were inherited from British Rail, and others have been purchased by EWS as part of a fleet renewal program.
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	www.yourart.com /research/encyclopedia.cgi?subject=/EWS (417 words)

	Rail Terms and Conditions
		Rail Europe Group (REG) reserves the right to change prices without notice whether such changes are related or not to alterations in rates of exchange.
		Under the Rail Protection Plan, if your pass is lost or stolen while traveling in Europe, upon your return to North America you will be reimbursed for the unused portion of their original Rail Pass/ticket or the value of the replacement rail pass/ticket(s), whichever is lower.
		The loss date shall be the date on which the pass holder first became aware of the loss of the Rail Pass /ticket or the date 24 hours prior to the reporting of the loss to the police, whichever is later.
	www.raileurope.com /us/common/rail_terms_and_conditions.htm (2263 words)

	The Privatization of British Rail
		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)

	BBC News \| UK \| Were trains any better 100 years ago?
		In 1900, the rail industry was split into rival companies which competed against each other, often between the same destinations.
		In their turn, the proles of third class - 95% of passengers - were allowed to upgrade.
		In 1900 as in 2000, the rail system was subject to an enormous amount of criticism, particularly about nationalisation, which eventually happened in 1947.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/uk/992144.stm (685 words)

	Rail (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		The purpose of the East-West Passenger Rail Feasibility Study is to provide policymakers and the public with objective information regarding the potential for daylight passenger rail service between eastern and western Washington communities.
		If new passenger rail service were to be implemented over the Stampede Pass route, WSDOT would work with their partners to identify areas for cost sharing and negotiations.
		Rail Operations A station has to provide a safe environment for passengers with respect to train operations along the adjacent trackage and be compatible with other passenger and freight operations on the line.
	www.wsdot.wa.gov /rail/plans/eastwest/default.cfm (19426 words)

	Class 59
		The seed of such a significant change was due to the discontent of Foster Yeoman, a major customer of British Rail for block trains for their stone and aggregate products, with the dismal reliability of locomotives provided for their services.
		Foster Yeoman were impressed with the reliability of their privately owned and dedicated fleet of wagons so ventured to suggest to British Rail that their services be operated with a similarly privately owned and dedicated fleet of locomotives.
		To meet British standards and fit within the restrictive loading gauge a considerable amount of re-design work and compromises were required to scale down the SD40-2 design.
	www.semg.org.uk /diesel/class59_1.html (622 words)

	BRITISH RAIL CONSIDERED FLYING SAUCER TRAVEL (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		British Rail, which has trouble running the 5.48 from Fenchurch Street, once had ambitions to fly you to the stars.
		But according to inventor Charles Frederick himself, when he patented British Rail's first spaceship in 1970, it was with more than half a hope of seeing it fly.
		Now 59, grey-haired and retired from BR's technical department for three years, he sat in the garden of his country home and contemplated what might have been, and still could be...
	www.anomalies.net /archive/cni-news/CNI.0069.html (685 words)

	United Kingdom travel guide - Wikitravel
		British rain is legendary, but in practice it rarely rains more than two or three hours at a time and sometimes parts of the country stay dry for weeks, especially in the East.
		This applies to all levels of the British society - it may be worth remembering that the Prime Minister, Tony Blair, had to collect his son Euan from a police station after he had been found drunk celebrating the completion of his GCSE exams (taken at the age of 16).
		Other topics that the British are often divided on and may have strong feelings about – such as "the troubles" in Northern Ireland, the role of the monarchy, and politics in general – are usually best left unmentioned; simply bringing them up may be considered inappropriate.
	wikitravel.org /en/United_Kingdom (11126 words)

	CG 59 Princeton
		The USS Princeton (CG 59) is the sixth ship to bear this name and was commissioned in 1989 in Pascagoula, MS.
		USS Princeton (CG 59) is equipped to operate in a high-density multi-threat environment as an integral member of a battle group or surface action group (SAG), to include striking targets along hostile shore lines or well inland.
		CG 59 is the sixth in a series of U.S. Navy ships to honor the name Princeton.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/agency/navy/cg-59.htm (2338 words)

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