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	british rail (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		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.yourencyclopedia.net /British_Rail.html (512 words)

	British Rail - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		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).
		In 1973 the TOPS system for classifying locomotives and multiple units was introduced, and is the basis of the classification system.
	www.eastcleveland.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/British_Rail (1606 words)

	Encyclopedia: History of the British canal system
		The transport system which existed before the canals were built consisted of either coastal shipping, or horses and carts struggling along mostly un-surfaced mud roads, (although there were some surfaced Turnpike roads), there was also a small amount of traffic carried along navigable rivers.
		The bulk of the canal system was built in the Midlands and the north of England, with relatively few canals being built in southern England or London (the Grand Union Canal being an exception).
		By the 1850s the railway system had become well established and the amount of cargo carried on the canals had fallen by nearly two thirds, lost mostly to railway competition.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/History-of-the-British-canal-system (3852 words)

	Beeching Axe - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Beeching Axe was an informal name for the British government's attempt in the 1960s to control the spiralling cost of running the British railway system by closing what it considered to be "little-used" and unprofitable railway lines.
		Dr Beeching believed the railway system should be run like a business not a public service, and that if parts of the railway system that didn't pay their way—like some rural branch lines—were closed then the remaining core of the system could be restored to profitability.
		He made a study of traffic on all the railway lines in the country and concluded that 80% of the traffic was carried on just 20% of the network, with much of the rest of the system carrying little traffic and operating at a loss.
	www.newlenox.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Beeching_Axe (1901 words)

	Rail transport in Great Britain - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A proportion of the rolling stock of British Rail was sold off to companies that lease or hire stock to passenger and freight operators, as well as to National Rail and railway maintenance companies.
		UK railways are run at arm's length from the government, through two government organisations, both of which have statutory powers under various Acts of Parliament (such as the Railways Act 1993, the Competition Act 1998 and the Transport Act 2000), and both of which receive Directions and Guidance from the Secretaries of State for Transport.
		Most UK railway stations date from the Victorian era and are located on the edge of town centres.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/British_railway_system (2609 words)

	Encyclopedia: Rail transport in Great Britain
		Many railway lines were closed as a result of the Beeching Axe The Beeching Axe was an informal name for the British governments attempt in the 1960s to control the spiralling cost of running the British railway system by closing what it considered to be little-used and unprofitable...
		UK railways are run at arms-length from the government, through two government organisations, both of which have statutory powers under various Acts of Parliament (such as the Railways Act 1993, the Competition Act 1998 and the Transport Act 2000), and both of which receive Directions and Guidance from the...
		The Taff Vale Railway (TVR) is a railway in Glamorgan, South Wales, and is one of the oldest in Wales.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Rail-transport-in-Great-Britain (8735 words)

	Beeching Axe - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Beeching believed the railway system should be run like a business, not a public service, and that if parts of the railway system that did not pay their way—like some rural branch lines— they should be eliminated.
		Beeching made a study of traffic on all the railway lines in the country and concluded that 80% of the traffic was carried on just 20% of the network, with much of the rest of the system carrying little traffic and operating at a loss.
		Castle decided that at least 11,000 route miles of "basic railway" would be needed for the foreseeable future and that the railway system should be stabilised at around this size.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Beeching_axe (1963 words)

	List of British railway museums (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Kidderminster Railway Museum The museum houses a vast range of railway artefacts from all over the British Isles.
		West Coast Railway Heritage Park Non-profit organization dedicated to collect, preserve and restore railway cars and artifacts, and operate a licensed railway.
		Thomas Brassey Builder of the Paris and Le Havre Railway in France, the Lancaster and Carlisle Railway, the Caledonian Railway, the Great Northern Railway, Tilbury and Southend Railway, Shrewsbury and Hereford Railway, and Grand Trunk Railway in Canada.
	www.serebella.com /encyclopedia/article-List_of_British_railway_museums.html (419 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.
		Dickens was using the railway and the death of a particular lifestyle as a metaphor for the death of young Paul Dombey.
		However, the introduction of the system signaled the coming of the industrial age and many people were intimidated by the thought that the course of their lives was changing forever.
	www.gober.net /victorian/reports/railroad.html (1783 words)

	Definition of History of the British canal system
		The transport system which existed before the canals were built consisted of either coastal shipping, or horses and carts struggling along mostly un-surfaced mud roads, (although there were some surfaced Tollpike roads), there was also a small amount of traffic carried along navigable rivers.
		The canal system saw brief surges in use during the first and Second World Wars and still carried a substantial amount of freight until the early 1950s.
		By the 1960s the canal system had shrunk to just 2000 miles (3000 kilometres), half the size it was at its peak in the early 19th century.
	www.wordiq.com /definition/History_of_the_British_canal_system (1722 words)

	A Tribute to Hinduism - Caste_System (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		And as the system of caste is purely a social adjustment, there is nothing that can stand in the way of its revision and readjustment except a sense of pride and obstinacy and a demand to preserve the status quo on the part of some of its members.
		The caste system, in turn, is painted in the ugliest colors: as a racist Apartheid system designed to oppress the native population.
		And in the same decade, others were taken to British Guiana in South America, and Mauritius off the coast of Africa; in the 1860's to the British colony of Natal in South Africa; in the 1870's to the Dutch colony of Surinam; in the 1880's to Fiji.
	www.atributetohinduism.com /Caste_System.htm (10922 words)

	British Rail Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Much money was also wasted by the rapid introduction of new classes of diesel locomotives into fleet service without an adequate period of prototype testing, which resulted in several classes being scrapped within a very few years of their being built.
		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.
		Also during this time, yellow warning panels, characteristic of British railways, were added to the front of diesel and electric locomotives and multiple units in order to increase the safety of track workers.
	www.variedtastes.com /encyclopedia/British_Rail (1829 words)

	British Rail Schedules -- Recommendations and Resources (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		British United Traction produced eleven lightweight Diesel multiple unit vehicles for British Rail during the 1950s, numbered 79740-79750.
		thumbright300pxLogo of British Rail 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.
		I'm thinking of the one which appeared on loco tenders with BRITISH RAILWAYS with the words separated by a large wheel, with a lion standing over the wheel with its feet on the lettering.
	www.becomingapediatrician.com /health/23/british-rail-schedules.html (604 words)

	(DV) Fiyouzat: Japan Deeper Into Neo-Liberalism
		British citizens can, perhaps better than most, eulogize to the Japanese about the loss of public goods when it comes to losing public goods.
		By contrast, I have been back in the past few years, and the conditions of the railway system in the UK are atrocious.
		The railways system, in short, is so screwed up by design so as make it impossible to put it all back together.
	www.dissidentvoice.org /Sept05/Fiyouzat0918.htm (782 words)

	British Railways (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Prewar, the railway, including track and signals, was run by private operators of whom the main players were the LMS (London, Midland and Scottish), The LNER (London North Eastern Railway), The GWR (Great Western Railway and the Southern railway.
		After the war the railways were badly run down and could no longer be supported (at that time) by private enterprise; they were nationalised by the Labour Government who kept basically to the same arrangement by appointing Regional Boards in place of the private companies and called the whole operation British Rail.
		The reason that British Rail functioned at all was through the hard work of a core of people, still underpaid, who were enthusiastic about railway work.
	www.grandadsez.co.uk /railway.html (1774 words)

	The Future of the British Railway System.
		Below is a short sample of the essay "The Future of the British Railway System.".
		Transport economists have differing views on the future of the railways but many 'specialists want a cut in the number of train operators, a more realistic 10 year transport plan, with cuts in the projected growth of passenger numbers' (Walker, The Guardian, 18th January 2002).
		In a survey carried out along the Wirral railway line in the North West of England 30 rail workers were asked if they saw the future of railtrack either in re-nationalization, privatization or don't know.
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	alberta government telephones v. (canada) canadian radio-television and telecommunications commission (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Railway Act cannot bind AGT except to the extent the provincial Crown is "mentioned or referred to" in the enactment.
		Canadian National Railway Co., [1932] S.C.R. In this case one mile of the appellant's railway track connected to two other lines both of which were under federal control, one because of a declaration, and the other because it extended beyond the limits of the province.
		In Kootenay and Elk Railway Co., supra, a majority of this Court held that the province of British Columbia had the power to incorporate a company whose proposed railway lines were to stop at one-quarter of an inch from the United States border.
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	View Column (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Indeed, the action plan itself states that "ultimately, Amtrak, as the train operating company, could be privatized." As for the proposed infrastructure-holding corporation the action plan suggests, after the transition period, that body could "franchise its functions through competitive bidding." Another form of privatization in other words.
		In the same way, a contraction of the rail service could be matched by a similar shrinkage in communities formerly served by that rail system.
		As the British disaster has shown, there is only so long that a railway system can operate, in private or public hands, with chronic underinvestment.
	www.aspendailynews.com /Search_Columns/view_column.cfm?OrderNumber=653 (973 words)

	WinDrivers Computer Tech Support Forums - British Railway System
		There is no pride or passion regarding the railway system anymore and it shows.
		The train system here is not run as a service anymore but a money-making operation by the government.
		I hate the railway system in London the last time I went there.
	forums.windrivers.com /showthread.php?t=54445 (904 words)

	Railway Signal System on Almondnet
		Railways and Railway Signaling Systems Tutorial and Railway Safety System and Railway Designs...
		R R Co's Signal System page is a centralised reference to all kinds of railway software on the...
		A railway signalling system which is based on the principle of dividing a railway line into a sequence...
	www.custom-built-stands.co.uk /stands/railway_signal_system.html (479 words)

	London, York, Leeds Pictures: Page 4 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Part of the model railway at the National Railway Museum in York, an impressive museum where Rose and I spent several hours after our arrival in the city.
		To the left of the picture are various red and yellow flags suspended from poles.
		They’re semaphore signals, which are used in place of stoplight signals at various points along the British railway system.
	www.nd.edu /~pradkows/ireland/lyl4.html (159 words)

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		Other than advice concerning british railway, you can find the most detailed web sites concerning gifts, great britain and travel.
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		British Railways, 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
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	JFS The Titfield Thunderbolt
		From the days before Thomas Beeching wielded a merciless axe on the branch lines of the British railway system comes a tale to fill all train enthusiasts with sheer joy.
		When the villagers are granted a provisional licence to operate the line their gleaming new bus proves to be no competition.
		Business flourishes for the amateur railway workers and as the visit of the official from the Ministry of Transport approaches they are confident of being granted a permit to take over the railway route.
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	Waddon railway station - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Waddon railway station is in the London Borough of Croydon in south London.
		Train times (http://www.livedepartureboards.co.uk/ldb/summary.aspx?T=WDO) for Waddon railway station from National Rail
		Street map (http://www.multimap.com/map/places.cgi?client=publicandlang=andadvanced=andquicksearch=CR04UP) and aerial photo (http://www.multimap.com/map/photo.cgi?client=publicandlang=andpc=CR04UP) of Waddon railway station from Multimap.com
	www.hartselle.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Waddon_railway_station (178 words)

	timeline
		Samuel F.B. Morse devised a system of dots and dashes to represent letters and numbers.(Morse code alphabet)
		Sir William Cooke and Sir William Wheatstone, British inventors, obtained a patent for the first electric telegraph to be used on the British railway system.
		Donald Murray, a British inventor, patented a time-division multiplex system.
	web.bryant.edu /~ehu/h364proj/sprg_99/baggett/timeline.htm (321 words)

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