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Alastair Morton
Sir Robert Alastair Newton Morton (11 January 1938 – 1 September 2004) was Chief Executive of Eurotunnel and Chairman of the Strategic Rail Authority and an industrialist of considerable achievements and renown.
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Beeching cuts
The Beeching cuts (also Beeching Axe) were a reduction of route network and restructuring of the railways in Great Britain, according to a plan outlined in two reports, The Reshaping of British Railways (1963) and The Development of the Major Railway Trunk Routes (1965), written by Dr Richard Beeching and published by the British Railways Board.
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Bob Reid (executive)
Sir Robert Paul Reid (born 1 May 1934) was Chairman of the British Railways Board from 1990 until 1995.
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BRB (Residuary) Limited
BRB (Residuary) Limited BRB (Residuary) Limited (BRBR) was the successor to the British Railways Board.
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Brian Robertson, 1st Baron Robertson of Oakridge
General Brian Hubert Robertson, 1st Baron Robertson of Oakridge, (22 July 1896 – 29 April 1974) was a senior British Army officer during the Second World War, who played an important role in the East African, North African and Italian Campaigns.
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British Film Institute
The British Film Institute (BFI) is a film and charitable organisation which promotes and preserves filmmaking and television in the United Kingdom.
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British Rail
British Railways (BR), which from 1965 traded as British Rail, was the state-owned company that operated most of the rail transport in Great Britain between 1948 and 1997.
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British Transport Commission
The British Transport Commission (BTC) was created by Clement Attlee's post-war Labour government as a part of its nationalisation programme, to oversee railways, canals and road freight transport in Great Britain (Northern Ireland had the separate Ulster Transport Authority).
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British Transport Films
British Transport Films was an organisation set up in 1949 to make documentary films on the general subject of British transport.
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British Transport Hotels
British Transport Hotels (BTH) was the hotels and catering business of the nationalised railway system in Great Britain.
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British Transport Police
The British Transport Police (BTP) is a national special police force that polices railways and light-rail systems in England, Scotland and Wales, for which it has entered into an agreement to provide such services.
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Chairman
The chairman (also chairperson, chairwoman or chair) is the highest officer of an organized group such as a board, a committee, or a deliberative assembly.
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Channel Tunnel
The Channel Tunnel (Le tunnel sous la Manche; also nicknamed the Chunnel) is a rail tunnel linking Folkestone, Kent, in the United Kingdom, with Coquelles, Pas-de-Calais, near Calais in northern France, beneath the English Channel at the Strait of Dover.
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Conservative Party (UK)
The Conservative Party, officially the Conservative and Unionist Party, is a centre-right political party in the United Kingdom.
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Cyril Hurcomb, 1st Baron Hurcomb
Cyril William Hurcomb, 1st Baron Hurcomb (18 February 1883 – 7 August 1975) was a British civil servant.
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Director of Passenger Rail Franchising
The Director of Passenger Rail Franchising was a statutory office in the United Kingdom created in 1993 by the Railways Act 1993 and usually called the Franchising Director.
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Eastern Region of British Railways
The Eastern Region was a region of British Railways from 1948, whose operating area could be identified from the dark blue signs and colour schemes that adorned its station and other railway buildings.
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Eustace Missenden
Sir Eustace Missenden –) was a British railwayman, successively the last General Manager of the Southern Railway and the first Chairman of the Railway Executive.
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Ferry
A ferry is a merchant vessel used to carry passengers, and sometimes vehicles and cargo as well, across a body of water.
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France
France, officially the French Republic (République française), is a sovereign state whose territory consists of metropolitan France in Western Europe, as well as several overseas regions and territories.
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Government of Northern Ireland (1921–1972)
The Executive Committee or the Executive Committee of the Privy Council of Northern Ireland was the government of Northern Ireland created under the Government of Ireland Act 1920.
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Great Britain
Great Britain, also known as Britain, is a large island in the north Atlantic Ocean off the northwest coast of continental Europe.
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Harold Macmillan
Maurice Harold Macmillan, 1st Earl of Stockton, (10 February 1894 – 29 December 1986) was a British statesman of the Conservative Party who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1957 to 1963.
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Ian McDonald Campbell
Ian McDonald Campbell, CVO; BSc; CEng; FICE; FCIT; (13 July 1922 – 1 April 1994) was a British civil engineer and chairman of the Scottish Board of British Railways.
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InterCity (British Rail)
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).
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John Elliot (railway manager)
Sir John Elliot (6 May 1898 – 18 September 1988) was a British transport and railway manager.
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John Nunneley
John Hewlett Nunneley MBE (22 November 1922 – 27 July 2013) was a British Army officer and businessman.
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John Welsby
John Kay Welsby, CBE was Chief Executive of the British Railways Board from 1990 until 1998; and its Chairman from 1995 to 1999.
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London
London is the capital and most populous city of England and the United Kingdom.
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London Midland Region of British Railways
The London Midland Region (LMR) was one of the six regions created on the formation of the nationalised British Railways (BR) and initially consisted of ex-London, Midland and Scottish Railway (LMS) lines in England and Wales.
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Michael Posner (economist)
Michael Vivian Posner (August 25, 1931 - February 14, 2006) was a University of Cambridge economics lecturer turned government adviser who later worked to safeguard social science research in the United Kingdom.
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National Railway Museum
The National Railway Museum (NRM) is a museum in York forming part of the British Science Museum Group of National Museums and telling the story of rail transport in Britain and its impact on society.
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Network SouthEast
Network SouthEast (NSE) was one of the three passenger sectors of British Rail formed in 1982.
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North Eastern Region of British Railways
The North Eastern Region was a region of British Railways from 1948, whose operating area could be identified by the orange signs and colour schemes that adorned its stations and other railway buildings.
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Northern Ireland
Northern Ireland (Tuaisceart Éireann; Ulster-Scots: Norlin Airlann) is a part of the United Kingdom in the north-east of the island of Ireland, variously described as a country, province or region.
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Office of Rail and Road
The Office of Rail and Road (ORR) is a non-ministerial government department responsible for the economic and safety regulation of Britain's railways, and the economic monitoring of Highways England.
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Peter Parker (British businessman)
Sir Peter Parker KBE LVO (30 August 1924 – 28 April 2002) was a British businessman and chairman of the British Railways Board from 1976 to 1983.
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Privatisation of British Rail
The Privatisation of British Rail was the process by which ownership and operation of the railways of Great Britain passed from government control into private hands.
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Privatization
Privatization (also spelled privatisation) is the purchase of all outstanding shares of a publicly traded company by private investors, or the sale of a state-owned enterprise to private investors.
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Prue Leith
Prudence Margaret "Prue" Leith, CBE, DL (born 18 February 1940) has been a restaurateur, chef, caterer, television presenter/broadcaster, businesswoman, journalist, cookery writer and novelist.
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Public limited company
A public limited company (legally abbreviated to plc) is a type of public company under the United Kingdom company law, some Commonwealth jurisdictions, and the Republic of Ireland.
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Public Record Office
The Public Record Office (abbreviated as PRO, pronounced as three letters and referred to as the PRO), Chancery Lane in the City of London, was the guardian of the national archives of the United Kingdom from 1838 until 2003, when it was merged with the Historical Manuscripts Commission to form The National Archives, based at Kew.
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Rail transport
Rail transport is a means of transferring of passengers and goods on wheeled vehicles running on rails, also known as tracks.
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Railfreight
Railfreight was a sector of British Rail responsible for all freight operations on the British network.
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Railtrack
Railtrack was a group of companies that owned the track, signalling, tunnels, bridges, level crossings and all but a handful of the stations of the British railway system from 1994 until 2002.
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Railways Act 2005
The Railways Act 2005 (c 14) is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom concerning the regulatory structure for railways in the United Kingdom.
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Regional Railways
Regional Railways was one of the three passenger sectors of British Rail created in 1982 that existed until 1997, two years after privatisation.
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Richard Beeching
Richard Beeching, Baron Beeching (21 April 1913 – 23 March 1985), commonly known as Dr Beeching, was a physicist and engineer who for a short but very notable time was chairman of British Railways and an affiliate of the Conservative Party in Britain.
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Richard Marsh, Baron Marsh
Richard William Marsh, Baron Marsh, PC (14 March 1928 – 29 July 2011) was an English politician and business executive.
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Robert Reid (railwayman)
Sir Robert Basil Reid, Kt CBE (7 February 1921 – 17 December 1993) Chairman of the British Railways Board from 1983 until 1990.
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Robin Inskip, 2nd Viscount Caldecote
Robert Andrew "Robin" Inskip, 2nd Viscount Caldecote KBE DSC (8 October 1917 – 20 September 1999) was a British peer and engineer.
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ScotRail (British Rail)
The ScotRail trading name was adopted on 22 September 1983, under manager Chris Green, British Railways Scottish Region to provide a distinctive brand for the British Rail network in Scotland.
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Scottish Region of British Railways
The Scottish Region (ScR) was one of the six regions created on British Railways (BR) and consisted of ex-London, Midland and Scottish Railway (LMS) and ex-London and North Eastern Railway (LNER) lines in Scotland.
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Sealink
Sealink was a ferry company based in the United Kingdom from 1970 to 1984, operating services to France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Channel Islands, Isle of Wight and Ireland.
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Secretary of State for Transport
Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Transport is the member of the cabinet responsible for the British Department for Transport.
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Simon Jenkins
Sir Simon David Jenkins (born 10 June 1943) is a British author and newspaper columnist and editor.
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Southern Region of British Railways
The Southern Region was a region of British Railways from 1948 until 1992 when railways were re-privatised.
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State ownership
State ownership (also called public ownership and government ownership) is the ownership of an industry, asset, or enterprise by the state or a public body representing a community as opposed to an individual or private party.
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Statutory corporation
A statutory corporation is a corporation created by the state.
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Strategic Rail Authority
The Strategic Rail Authority (SRA) was a non-departmental public body in the United Kingdom set up under the Transport Act 2000 to provide strategic direction for the railway industry.
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Thomas Taylor, Baron Taylor of Gryfe
Thomas Johnston Taylor, Baron Taylor of Gryfe (27 April 1912 – 13 July 2001) was a British politician.
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Transport Act 1962
The Transport Act 1962 is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
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Transport Act 2000
The Transport Act 2000 is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
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United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain,Usage is mixed with some organisations, including the and preferring to use Britain as shorthand for Great Britain is a sovereign country in western Europe.
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Western Region of British Railways
The Western Region was a region of British Railways from 1948.
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York
York is a historic walled city at the confluence of the rivers Ouse and Foss in North Yorkshire, England.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Railways_Board
