34 relations: British Rail, British Rail Class 20, Cab Secure Radio, Cable & Wireless Communications, Camden Town, Channel Tunnel, Charles Wheatstone, Clapham Junction rail crash, Copper, Cowden rail crash, Direct Rail Services, European Rail Traffic Management System, Euston railway station, Global Crossing, Great Western Railway, GSM-R, Hatfield rail crash, Ladbroke Grove rail crash, London and Birmingham Railway, Marconi Communications, Mercury Communications, Network Rail, Optical fiber, Paddington, Racal, Radio Electronic Token Block, Rail accidents in Winsford, Rail Safety and Standards Board, Telent, Thales Group, Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations 2006, West Coast Main Line, William Fothergill Cooke, 1995 Ais Gill rail accident.
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 Rail Class 20
The British Rail (BR) Class 20, otherwise known as an English Electric Type 1, is a class of diesel-electric locomotive.
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Cab Secure Radio
Cab Secure Radio (CSR) is an in-cab analogue radiotelephone system used on parts of the British railway network.
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Cable & Wireless Communications
Cable & Wireless Communications Ltd was a British multinational telecommunications company headquartered in London, United Kingdom with operations in Pan-America (the Caribbean and Central America).
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Camden Town
Camden Town, often shortened to Camden (a term also used for the entire borough), is a district of north west London, England, located north of Charing Cross (walking distance).
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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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Charles Wheatstone
Sir Charles Wheatstone FRS (6 February 1802 – 19 October 1875), was an English scientist and inventor of many scientific breakthroughs of the Victorian era, including the English concertina, the stereoscope (a device for displaying three-dimensional images), and the Playfair cipher (an encryption technique).
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Clapham Junction rail crash
On the morning of 12 December 1988, a crowded passenger train crashed into the rear of another train that had stopped at a signal, just south of Clapham Junction railway station in London, and subsequently sideswiped an empty train travelling in the opposite direction.
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Copper
Copper is a chemical element with symbol Cu (from cuprum) and atomic number 29.
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Cowden rail crash
The Cowden rail crash occurred on 15 October 1994, around 400 yards southeast of Cowden Station in the English county of Kent.
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Direct Rail Services
Direct Rail Services (DRS) is a rail freight company in Great Britain.
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European Rail Traffic Management System
The European Rail Traffic Management System (ERTMS) is the system of standards for management and interoperation of signalling for railways by the European Union (EU).
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Euston railway station
Euston railway station (also known as London Euston) is a central London railway terminus on Euston Road in the London Borough of Camden, managed by Network Rail.
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Global Crossing
Global Crossing was a telecommunications company that provided computer networking services and operated a tier 1 carrier.
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Great Western Railway
The Great Western Railway (GWR) was a British railway company that linked London with the south-west and west of England, the Midlands, and most of Wales.
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GSM-R
GSM-R, Global System for Mobile Communications – Railway or GSM-Railway is an international wireless communications standard for railway communication and applications.
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Hatfield rail crash
The Hatfield rail crash was a railway accident on 17 October 2000, at Hatfield, Hertfordshire, UK.
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Ladbroke Grove rail crash
The Ladbroke Grove rail crash (also known as the Paddington train crash) was a rail accident which occurred on 5 October 1999 at Ladbroke Grove in London, United Kingdom.
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London and Birmingham Railway
The London and Birmingham Railway (L&BR) was an early railway company in the United Kingdom, existing from 1833 to 1846, when it became part of the London and North Western Railway (L&NWR).
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Marconi Communications
Marconi Communications, the former telecommunications arm of the General Electric Company plc (GEC), was founded in August 1998 through the amalgamation of GEC Plessey Telecommunications (GPT) with other GEC subsidiaries: Marconi SpA, GEC Hong Kong, and ATC South Africa.
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Mercury Communications
Mercury Communications was a national telephone company in the United Kingdom, formed in 1981 as a subsidiary of Cable & Wireless, to challenge the then-monopoly of British Telecom (BT).
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Network Rail
Network Rail is the owner (via its subsidiary Network Rail Infrastructure Ltd, which was known as Railtrack plc before 2002) and infrastructure manager of most of the rail network in England, Scotland and Wales.
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Optical fiber
An optical fiber or optical fibre is a flexible, transparent fiber made by drawing glass (silica) or plastic to a diameter slightly thicker than that of a human hair.
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Paddington
Paddington is an area within the City of Westminster, in central London.
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Racal
Racal Electronics plc was once the third largest British electronics firm.
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Radio Electronic Token Block
Radio Electronic Token Block is a system of railway signalling used in the United Kingdom.
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Rail accidents in Winsford
There have been three major rail accidents and one notable incident near in Cheshire.
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Rail Safety and Standards Board
The Rail Safety and Standards Board (RSSB) is an independent not-for-profit company limited by guarantee, which was established in 2003, upon the recommendation of the public inquiry into the Ladbroke Grove rail crash.
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Telent
telent is a British radio, telecommunication, and Internet systems installation and services provision company.
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Thales Group
Thales Group is a French multinational company that designs and builds electrical systems and provides services for the aerospace, defence, transportation and security markets.
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Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations 2006
The Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations 2006 known colloquially as TUPE and pronounced tu-pee, are the United Kingdom's implementation of the European Union Transfer of Undertakings Directive.
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West Coast Main Line
The West Coast Main Line (WCML) is one of the most important railway corridors in the United Kingdom, connecting the major cities of London, Birmingham, Liverpool, Manchester, and Glasgow.
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William Fothergill Cooke
Sir William Fothergill Cooke (4 May 1806 – 25 June 1879) was an English inventor.
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1995 Ais Gill rail accident
The 1995 Ais Gill rail accident occurred near Aisgill, Cumbria, UK, at about 18:55 hrs on 31 January 1995 when a class 156 Super-Sprinter was derailed by a landslide on the Settle-Carlisle Railway line and was subsequently run into by a similar train travelling in the opposite direction.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Rail_Telecommunications