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  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).
British Locomotive and Multiple Unit Numbering and Classification
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 India Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
London Underground and the Glasgow Subway were independent concerns and there was a small number of independent light railways and industrial railways, but did not contribute significant mileage to the system.
The British Railways Board (BRB) was created in 1962, taking over from the former British Transport Commission (BTC) which, in addition to the railway, was also responsible for the waterways (canals) and road freight transport.
During the 1960s the TOPS system for classifying locomotives and multiple units was introduced, and is the basis of the classification system.
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 American and British English differences - Iridis Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
British English is assumed to be the form of English spoken in southeast England and the BBC and understood in other parts of the United Kingdom.
British English is also the dialect taught in most countries where English is not a native language, though there are a few exceptions where American English is taught, such as in the Philippines and in Japan.
British aeroplane and American airplane is a special case in that it is not a straight ae → e substitution; in fact it is a different word rather than a different spelling.
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 British Railways - UK Railways
British Railways (BR), later rebranded as British Rail, ran the railway system from the nationalisation of the 'Big Four' companies in 1948 until its privatisation in stages between 1994 and 1997.
British Railways came into existence from 1 January 1948, under the control of the Railway Executive of the British Transport Commission (BTC).
In particular it meant that the various regions were given much more autonomy as the government of the day did not believe in central direction, and this in turn led to mass orders for new diesel types which were then in development, many of which proved unsatisfactory later.
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 The Probert Encyclopaedia - Abbreviations (N-Z)
UFC is an abbreviation for United Free Church.
UKST is an abbreviation for United Kingdom Schmidt Telescope
ZPRSN is an abbreviation for Zurich Provisional Relative Sunspot Number
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 Vedanti - Back issues   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Mr Hoda who is presently serving as Regional Director of NE region of AMD at Shillong suggested for detailed explorations of this huge untapped mineral resources accounting roughly to 300 million tonnes of iron and 15 million tonnes of phosphate mineral issued by Jishnu Dutta Goswami, Geologist, Directorate of Geology and Mining, Government of Assam.
Guwahati : Regional Science Centre, Guwahati, in association with Petroleum Conservation Research Organization is going to celebrate its 9th Anniversary with a week-long programme from March 10 to March 15 at its Khanapara premises with a variety of educational programmes mainly for school going students.
Regional discourses and devotional cultural function will also be held everyday in the afternoon and evening.
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 British Rail - Iridis Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The works were split off into a new company, BREL (British Rail Engineering Limited).
Some analysts have pointed out that a similar rise in passenger numbers occurred in the late 1980s when the economy was buoyant, only to fall again in the recession of the early 1990s.
Railtrack's management proved to be incompetent and the government refused to continue to subsidise the losses of shareholders.
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 NucNews - July 25, 2004
British officials have said they hold the Sudanese government responsible for ending the conflict, in which an estimated 30,000 people have been killed.
The United States military also reported that 13 insurgents were killed by American and Iraqi forces in a major battle north of Baghdad that involved small arms fire, rocket-propelled grenades and artillery fire.
The United States had been cooperating with operations to shoot down drug-running planes in Latin America, but it began to back away from its support in April 2001 when a Peruvian jet shot down a small plane, mistakenly identified as a drug carrier, and killed an American missionary and her child.
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 LNER [Definition]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
It formed the new British RailwaysBritish 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....
The LNER was formed out of a number of constituent railway companiesThe London and North Eastern Railway (LNER) was formed out of a number of constituent railway companies at the grouping in 1923.
It is semi-autonomous, and has had a regional assembly since 1999, but the boundaries of East Anglia are undefined.
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 Military Intelligence   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The fleet numbering system was established in 1943 with each fleet commanded by a Vice Admiral who is expected to become a Joint Task Force (JTF) commander when a JTF has been established.
Airborne units are sometimes supported by links to all the major intelligence agencies, like the CIA and NSA, as well as operating their own intelligence (G-2) service.
Each unit usually consists of a dozen men, each with a different variety of specialties, some of whom are cross-trained in each other's specialty.
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 NucNews - August 17, 2004
A united Korea is the ultimate goal of the nation and efforts to increase exchanges across the world's most heavily fortified border cannot pause for a moment, Roh said.
The United States Army has been skirmishing with insurgents in the huge cemetery that has been the scene of the heaviest fighting, just north of Najaf's Old City, and has attacked buildings around the outer edge of the Old City, where insurgents were believed to be hiding.
As for the timing of the arrests, British officials hinted that they were concerned that the investigation might be compromised by the flurry of news reports about the heightened alert in the United States and the details about the life and activities of Mr.
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 "Whereas Edom (the Jews) saith, We are impoverished, but we will return and build the desolate places; thus saith ...
It is not impossible that Messrs Weizmann and Sokolow intended to double-cross British diplomacy, while the British intended to double-cross their Zionist friends, and it was difficult to forecast who, in the long run, would prove to be the user and who the used.
The British public itself was at the cross roads; whether to consider Palestine as the Promised Land for the Jews, or for the English, and so, everybody on the Thames was waiting for Mr.
The British Foreign Office issued a statement in which the attack was described as constituting the gravest violation of the Palestine Armistice Agreement and a serious threat to peace in the area.
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 SBF Glossary: E
With a single input, the complementary outputs of the differential amplifier function as an inverter and as a sharpened version of the input signal.
Normal numbering for discussing guitar and probably all lute-family strings is in the opposite direction: upwards in position.
This usage is consistent with publishers' way of numbering reference works (see, for example, 11th entry), but it is not the usage familiar from the copyright pages of most books.
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 Leo Petro
DETR Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions: former UK government department covering transport, part of which was itself previously known as the Department of Transport.
MU Merchandisable Unit: usually a dolly or wheeled carrier that is loaded with pre-merchandised product straight off the production line, but which travels right through the supply chain to the store sales area.
RDC Regional Distribution Centre: one of a network of large warehouses operated for a single retailer where merchandise is consolidated prior to delivery to its local stores.
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 Southern Business and Development
BAE Systems North America, the British defense and aerospace contractor, will open a new systems-integration unit in Reston in fall 2002 and add 1,000 new jobs at the facility over three years.
The rankings were based on industry figures from the U.S. Department of Labor that tracked the increase in the number of automotive employees and in the number of automotive establishments from 1995 to 1999.
Kentucky led all U.S. states in the increase in the number of automotive employees and in the number of automotive establishments from 1995 to 1999, followed by Georgia, South Carolina, Michigan, Texas, Virginia, Indiana, Alabama, North Carolina and New Hampshire.
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 NEWS-2221   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Thailand suspects Muslim rebels in a bomb attack on an armored train full of rail officials inspecting tracks, wounding 19 in a southern province.
Florida health officials said the number of suspected petting-zoo infections resulting in a potentially fatal kidney disorder has climbed to 15.
A bipartisan coalition -- including an increasing number of defense hawks -- is backing policies to curb petroleum use, a cause generally associated with environmental activists.
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unit at between EUR1 billion and EUR1.3 billion, the amount is
It is noted that the original assessment of the unit by analysts
Analysts are expecting British Airways to report a 3% increase in
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