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Advanced Passenger Train
The Advanced Passenger Train (APT) was a tilting high speed train developed by British Rail during the 1970s and early 1980s, for use on the West Coast Main Line (WCML).
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Angel Trains
Angel Trains is a British rolling stock operating company (ROSCO) created in 1994 as part of the privatisation of British Rail.
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Associated Society of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen
The Associated Society of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen (ASLEF) is a British trade union representing train drivers.
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Bakewell railway station
Bakewell railway station was a railway station built to serve the town of Bakewell in Derbyshire, England by the Midland Railway on its extension of the Manchester, Buxton, Matlock and Midland Junction Railway line from Rowsley to Buxton.
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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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Belfast
Belfast (is the capital city of Northern Ireland, located on the banks of the River Lagan on the east coast of Ireland.
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Belgium
Belgium, officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a country in Western Europe bordered by France, the Netherlands, Germany and Luxembourg.
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Beverley railway station
Beverley railway station serves the town of Beverley in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England.
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Birmingham
Birmingham is a city and metropolitan borough in the West Midlands, England, with an estimated population of 1,101,360, making it the second most populous city of England and the United Kingdom.
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Birmingham and Derby Junction Railway
The Birmingham and Derby Junction Railway was a British railway company.
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Blackpool Tramway
The Blackpool Tramway runs from Blackpool to Fleetwood on the Fylde Coast in Lancashire, England.
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BNP Paribas
BNP Paribas is a French international banking group.
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Bombardier Voyager family
The Voyager series is a group of high-speed diesel-electric multiple-unit trains built in Belgium by Bombardier Transportation for service on the UK railway network.
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Bourne End railway station
Bourne End railway station serves Bourne End in Buckinghamshire, England.
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Bristol
Bristol is a city and county in South West England with a population of 456,000.
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Bristol Temple Meads railway station
Bristol Temple Meads is the oldest and largest railway station in Bristol, England.
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British Isles fixed sea link connections
Proposals for fixed sea links to improve transportation between areas of the British Isles include undersea tunnel, bridge, causeway, or combination of these elements.
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British narrow-gauge railways
There were more than a thousand British narrow-gauge railways ranging from large, historically significant common carriers to small, short-lived industrial railways.
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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 Rail Class 08
The British Rail (BR) Class 08 is a class of diesel-electric shunting locomotive.
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British Rail Class 180
The Class 180 is a British diesel multiple-unit train built by Alstom at Washwood Heath in Birmingham between 2000 and 2001 for then-new express services operated by First Great Western (FGW).
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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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British Rail Class 220
The Class 220 Voyager is a class of diesel-electric high-speed multiple-unit trains built in Belgium by Bombardier Transportation in 2000 and 2001.
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British Rail Class 221
The Class 221 Super Voyager is a class of diesel-electric multiple-unit express trains built in Bruges, Belgium, by Bombardier Transportation in 2001/02.
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British Rail Class 222
The British Rail Class 222 is a diesel multiple unit high-speed train capable of.
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British Rail Class 252
Class 252 was the classification allocated to the prototype High Speed Train unit, numbered 252001.
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British Rail Class 325
The British Rail Class 325 is a 4-car dual-voltage 25 kV alternating current (AC) or 750 V direct current (DC) electric multiple unit (EMU) train used for postal train services.
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British Rail Class 37
The British Rail Class 37 is a diesel-electric locomotive.
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British Rail Class 373
The British Rail Class 373 or TGV TMST train is a French designed and built electric multiple unit that operate Eurostar high speed rail services from London to France and Belgium via the Channel Tunnel, part of the TGV family, it has a smaller cross-section to fit the smaller loading gauge in Britain, was originally able to operate on the UK third rail network and it has extensive fireproofing in case of fire in the tunnel.
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British Rail Class 374
The Class 374 electric multiple unit high speed train, branded as Eurostar e320, provide Eurostar services through the Channel Tunnel to serve destinations beyond the core routes to Paris and Brussels.
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British Rail Class 390
The Class 390 Pendolino is a type of electric high-speed train operated by Virgin Trains in the United Kingdom, leased from Angel Trains.
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British Rail Class 395
The Class 395 Javelin is a dual-voltage electric multiple unit (EMU) built for high-speed commuter services on High Speed 1 and elsewhere on the Integrated Kent Franchise. The six-car trains were built in Japan by Hitachi and operate at a maximum speed of under 25 kV AC overhead electrification on High Speed 1, and on 750 V DC third rail supply on conventional lines. The use of the high-speed trains as part of the transport infrastructure for the Olympic Park formed part of the original bid for the 2012 Summer Olympics. The service was named the Olympic Javelin Shuttle, and was the origin for the Javelin nickname. The Olympic services began 28 July 2012.
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British Rail Class 43 (HST)
The British Rail Class 43 (HST) is the TOPS classification used for the InterCity 125 High Speed Train (formerly classes 253 and 254) power cars, built by British Rail Engineering Limited from 1975 to 1982.
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British Rail Class 47
The British Rail Class 47 is a class of British railway diesel-electric locomotive that was developed in the 1960s by Brush Traction.
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British Rail Class 56
The British Rail Class 56 is a type of diesel locomotive designed for heavy freight work.
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British Rail Class 57
The Class 57 diesel locomotives were re-manufactured by Brush Traction, Loughborough between 1998 and 2004 from Class 47s.
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British Rail Class 67
The Class 67 locomotives are a class of Bo-Bo diesel-electric locomotives which were built for the English Welsh & Scottish Railway (EWS) between 1999 and 2000 by Alstom at Meinfesa in Valencia, Spain with drive components (engine, generator and traction motors) from General Motors' Electro-Motive Division.
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British Rail Class 68
The Class 68 is a type of mainline mixed traffic diesel-electric locomotive manufactured by Stadler Rail (and previously by Vossloh España) for Direct Rail Services in the United Kingdom.
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British Rail Class 800
The Class 800 Intercity Express Train is a type of electro-diesel train used in the United Kingdom, based on the Hitachi A-train design.
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British Rail Class 801
The Class 801 Super Express is the electric multiple unit (EMU) variant of the Hitachi Super Express, based on the Hitachi A-train, high-speed trains to be used in the United Kingdom.
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British Rail Class 802
The British Rail Class 802 is a type of bi-mode multiple unit train being built by Hitachi Rail Europe for Great Western Railway (GWR), TransPennine Express and Hull Trains, based on the Hitachi A-train design.
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British Rail Class 88
The Class 88 is a type of mixed traffic electro-diesel locomotive manufactured by Stadler Rail for Direct Rail Services in the United Kingdom.
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British Rail Class 91
The British Rail Class 91 is a class of, electric locomotives ordered as a component of the East Coast Main Line modernisation and electrification programme of the late 1980s.
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British Rail Classes 253, 254 and 255
Class 253, Class 254 and Class 255 are classifications that have in the past been applied to InterCity 125 high speed trains in Great Britain.
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British Rail Mark 3
The British Rail Mark 3 is a type of passenger carriage developed in response to growing competition from airlines and the car in the 1960s.
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British railway technical manuals
The railway network of Great Britain is operated with the aid of a number of documents, which have been sometimes termed "technical manuals", because they are more detailed than the pocket-timetables which the public encounters every day.
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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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Cab signalling
Cab signalling is a railway safety system that communicates track status and condition information to the cab, crew compartment or driver's compartment of a locomotive, railcar or multiple unit.
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Cambridge railway station
Cambridge railway station is the principal station serving the city of Cambridge in the east of England.
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Canterbury and Whitstable Railway
The Canterbury and Whitstable Railway, sometimes referred to colloquially as the "Crab and Winkle Line", was an early British railway that opened in 1830 between Canterbury and Whitstable in the county of Kent, England.
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Cardiff
Cardiff (Caerdydd) is the capital of, and largest city in, Wales, and the eleventh-largest city in the United Kingdom.
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Cargo
In economics, cargo or freight are goods or produce being conveyed – generally for commercial gain – by water, air or land.
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Central London
Central London is the innermost part of London, in the United Kingdom, spanning several boroughs.
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Chancellor of the Exchequer
The Chancellor and Under-Treasurer of Her Majesty's Exchequer, commonly known as the Chancellor of the Exchequer, or simply the Chancellor, is a senior official within the Government of the United Kingdom and head of Her Majesty's Treasury.
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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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Cheshire Lines Committee
The Cheshire Lines Committee (CLC) was the second-largest joint railway in Great Britain, with 143 route miles.
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Chiltern Railways
Chiltern Railways is a British train operating company owned by Arriva UK Trains that has operated the Chiltern Railways franchise since July 1996.
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Christian Wolmar
Christian Tage Forter Wolmar (born 3 August 1949) is a British journalist, author, railway historian and Labour Party politician.
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City centre
A city centre is the commercial, cultural and often the historical, political and geographic heart of a city, especially those in the Western world.
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Colas Rail
Colas Rail is a British rail freight company, formerly known as Seco Rail.
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Colne railway station
Colne railway station serves the Lancashire mill town of Colne, England, which is situated close to Pendle Hill.
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Competition Act 1998
The Competition Act 1998 is the current major source of competition law in the United Kingdom, along with the Enterprise Act 2002.
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Competition Commission
The Competition Commission was a non-departmental public body responsible for investigating mergers, markets and other enquiries related to regulated industries under competition law in the United Kingdom.
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Concessionary fares on the British railway network
There is no single 'discount railcard' available on the UK railway network.
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Connecting Communities: Expanding Access to the Rail Network
Connecting Communities: Expanding Access to the Rail Network is a 2009 report by the Association of Train Operating Companies (ATOC) identifying potential expansion of the National Rail passenger railway network in England, primarily through the construction or re-opening of railway lines for passenger services, and the construction or re-opening of up to 40 new passenger railway stations.
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Continental Europe
Continental or mainland Europe is the continuous continent of Europe excluding its surrounding islands.
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Crewe railway station
Crewe railway station is a railway station in Crewe, Cheshire, England.
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Crossrail
Crossrail is a railway line under development in London and the home counties of Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Essex, England.
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DB Cargo UK
DB Cargo UK, formerly DB Schenker Rail UK and English, Welsh & Scottish Railway (EWS), is a British rail freight company headquartered in Doncaster, England.
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Department for Transport
The Department for Transport (DfT) is the government department responsible for the English transport network and a limited number of transport matters in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland that have not been devolved.
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Deputy prime minister
A deputy prime minister or vice prime minister is, in some countries, a government minister who can take the position of acting prime minister when the prime minister is temporarily absent.
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Deutsche Bahn
Deutsche Bahn AG (abbreviated as DB, DB AG or DBAG) is a German railway company.
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Deutsche Bank
Deutsche Bank AG is a German investment bank and financial services company headquartered in Frankfurt, Hesse, Germany.
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Devon and Cornwall Railways
Devon and Cornwall Railways (DCR) was a British freight operating company, active from 2011.
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Diesel Trains Ltd
Diesel Trains Ltd was a company set up by the Department for Transport (DfT) in 2009 with the intention of funding and managing the procurement of up to 200 diesel multiple unit vehicles as part of the British Government's planned purchase of as many as 1300 new rail vehicles.
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Direct Rail Services
Direct Rail Services (DRS) is a rail freight company in Great Britain.
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Docklands Light Railway
The Docklands Light Railway (DLR) is an automated light metro system opened in 1987 to serve the redeveloped Docklands area of East London, England.
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Dutchflyer
Dutchflyer is an integrated passenger service between the United Kingdom and the Netherlands.
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East Coast (train operating company)
East Coast, the trading name of the East Coast Main Line Company, was a British train operating company running the InterCity East Coast franchise on the East Coast Main Line between London, Yorkshire, North East England, and Scotland.
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East Coast Main Line
The East Coast Main Line (ECML) is a major railway link between London and Edinburgh via Peterborough, Doncaster, York, Darlington, Durham and Newcastle; it is presently electrified along the whole route.
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East London line
The East London line is part of the London Overground, running north to south through the East, Docklands and South areas of London.
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East West Rail
East West Rail is a major project to establish a strategic railway connecting East Anglia with Central, Southern and Western England".
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Edinburgh
Edinburgh (Dùn Èideann; Edinburgh) is the capital city of Scotland and one of its 32 council areas.
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Edinburgh Trams
Edinburgh Trams is a tramway in Edinburgh, Scotland, operated by Transport for Edinburgh.
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Ely railway station
Ely railway station is on the Fen line in the east of England, serving the city of Ely, Cambridgeshire.
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Ernest Marples
Alfred Ernest Marples, Baron Marples, PC (9 December 1907 – 6 July 1978), was a British Conservative politician who served as Postmaster General (1957–1959) and Minister of Transport (1959–1964).
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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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European Rail Traffic Management System in Great Britain
The European Rail Traffic Management System (ERTMS) is an initiative backed by the European Union to enhance cross-border interoperability and the procurement of signalling equipment by creating a single Europe-wide standard for train control and command systems.
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European Union Agency for Railways
The European Union Agency for Railways (ERA) is the agency of the European Union (EU) that sets mandatory requirements for European railways and manufacturers in the form of Technical Specifications for Interoperability, which apply to the Trans-European Rail system.
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Eurostar
Eurostar is a high-speed railway service connecting London with Amsterdam, Avignon, Brussels, Lille, Lyon, Marseille, Paris and Rotterdam.
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Eversholt Rail Group
Eversholt Rail Group (formerly HSBC Rail (UK) Limited) is one of the three major ROSCOs (rolling stock operating company) in the United Kingdom.
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Fawkham Junction
Fawkham Junction is a railway junction that currently connects High Speed 1 with the Kent Rail Network.
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Financing of the rail industry in Great Britain
The financing of the rail industry in Great Britain is how rail transport in Great Britain is paid for.
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First TransPennine Express
First TransPennine Express was a British train operating company jointly owned by FirstGroup and Keolis which operated the TransPennine Express franchise.
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FirstGroup
FirstGroup plc FirstGroup plc is a Scottish multi-national transport group, registered and operating in the United Kingdom.
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Forth Bridge
The Forth Bridge is a cantilever railway bridge across the Firth of Forth in the east of Scotland, west of Edinburgh City Centre.
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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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Freightliner Group
Freightliner Group is a rail freight and logistics company, formed in the United Kingdom in 1995, and now having expanded into Australia, The Netherlands and Poland.
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GATX
GATX Corporation is an equipment finance company based in Chicago, Illinois.
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GB Railfreight
GB Railfreight is a rail freight company in the United Kingdom.
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George Osborne
George Gideon Oliver Osborne (born 23 May 1971) is a British Conservative Party politician, who was Member of Parliament (MP) for Tatton from June 2001 until he stood down on 3 May 2017.
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Glasgow
Glasgow (Glesga; Glaschu) is the largest city in Scotland, and third most populous in the United Kingdom.
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Glasgow Subway
The Glasgow Subway is an underground metro line in Glasgow, Scotland.
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Gosport
Gosport is a town in Hampshire on the south coast of England.
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Grand Central (train operating company)
Grand Central is an open-access operator of train services in the United Kingdom, owned by Arriva UK Trains.
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Grand Junction Railway
The Grand Junction Railway (GJR) was an early railway company in the United Kingdom, which existed between 1833 and 1846 when it was amalgamated with other railways to form the London and North Western Railway.
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Great Central Main Line
The Great Central Main Line (GCML), also known as the London Extension of the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway (MS&LR), is a former railway line in the United Kingdom.
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Great Western main line
The Great Western main line is a main line railway in England, that runs westwards from London Paddington to.
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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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Great Western Railway (train operating company)
First Greater Western Limited, trading as Great Western Railway (GWR), is a British train operating company owned by FirstGroup that operates the Greater Western railway franchise.
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Gwyneth Dunwoody
Gwyneth Patricia Dunwoody (née Phillips; 12 December 1930 – 17 April 2008) was a British moderate Labour Party politician, who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Exeter from 1966 to 1970, and then for Crewe (later Crewe and Nantwich) from 1974 to her death in 2008.
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Hadfield railway station
Hadfield railway station serves the town of Hadfield in Derbyshire, England.
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Harry Needle Railroad Company
The Harry Needle Railroad Company (HNRC) is a railway spot-hire company, based at Barrow Hill Engine Shed in Derbyshire.
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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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Heathrow Airport
Heathrow Airport (also known as London Heathrow) is a major international airport in London, United Kingdom.
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Heathrow Express
Heathrow Express is an airport rail link between London Heathrow Airport and Paddington.
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Heritage railway
A heritage railway is a railway operated as living history to re-create or preserve railway scenes of the past.
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High Speed 1
High Speed 1 (HS1), legally the Channel Tunnel Rail Link (CTRL), is a high-speed railway between London and the United Kingdom end of the Channel Tunnel.
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High Speed 2
High Speed 2 (HS2) is a planned high-speed railway in the United Kingdom, directly linking London, Birmingham, the East Midlands, Leeds and Manchester.
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High Wycombe railway station
High Wycombe railway station is a railway station in the town of High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, England.
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History of rail transport in Great Britain
The railway system of Great Britain, the principal territory of the United Kingdom, is the oldest in the world.
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House of Commons of the United Kingdom
The House of Commons is the lower house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
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Hull Trains
Hull Trains is an open access operator in England owned by FirstGroup.
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Impact of the privatisation of British Rail
The impact of the privatisation of British Rail in the 1990s has been the subject of much debate, which has continued to the present day.
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Imperial Chemical Industries
Imperial Chemical Industries (ICI) was a British chemical company and was, for much of its history, the largest manufacturer in Britain.
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Inflation
In economics, inflation is a sustained increase in price level of goods and services in an economy over a period of time.
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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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InterCity 125
InterCity 125 was the brand name of British Rail's diesel-powered High Speed Train (HST) fleet, which was built from 1975 to 1982 and was introduced in 1976.
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InterCity 225
The InterCity 225 is an electric high speed train in the United Kingdom, comprising a Class 91 electric locomotive, nine Mark 4 coaches and a Driving Van Trailer (DVT).
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InterCity 250
InterCity 250 was the name of a proposed rolling stock, track and signalling upgrade project on the West Coast Main Line by British Rail in the early 1990s.
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Intercity Express Programme
The Intercity Express Programme is an initiative of the Department for Transport (DfT) in the United Kingdom to procure new trains to replace the InterCity 125 and InterCity 225 fleets on the East Coast Main Line and Great Western Main Line.
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Intermodal freight transport
Intermodal freight transport involves the transportation of freight in an intermodal container or vehicle, using multiple modes of transportation (e.g., rail, ship, and truck), without any handling of the freight itself when changing modes.
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International Union of Railways
The UIC (Union Internationale des Chemins de fer) or International Union of Railways is an international rail transport industry body.
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John Prescott
John Leslie Prescott, Baron Prescott (born 31 May 1938) is a British politician who was the Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1997 to 2007.
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John Swift (barrister)
John Swift QC is an English barrister and a leading authority on competition law.
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Joint railway
A joint railway is a railway operating under the control of more than one railway company: those companies very often supplying the traction over the railway.
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Leeds
Leeds is a city in the metropolitan borough of Leeds, in the county of West Yorkshire, England.
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Leuchars railway station
Leuchars railway station serves the towns of Leuchars and St Andrews in Fife, Scotland.
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Lewes railway station
Lewes railway station serves the town of Lewes in East Sussex, England.
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List of British heritage and private railways
This is a list of heritage, private and preserved railways throughout the United Kingdom and the Crown dependencies whether operational or former, for charitable purposes or shareholder profit.
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List of companies operating trains in the United Kingdom
This article only covers companies operating trains on Network Rail lines.
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List of countries by rail transport network size
This list of countries by rail transport network size based on International Union of Railways data ranks countries by length of rail lines worked at end of year updated with other reliable sources.
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List of countries by rail usage
This is a list of countries by rail usage.
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List of early British railway companies
The following list sets out to show all the railway companies set up by Acts of Parliament in the 19th century until the late 1850s.
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List of UIC country codes
The UIC Country Code is a two digit-number identifying countries in which members of the International Union of Railways (UIC) are active.
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Liverpool
Liverpool is a city in North West England, with an estimated population of 491,500 in 2017.
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Liverpool and Manchester Railway
The Liverpool and Manchester Railway (L&MR) was a railway opened on 15 September 1830 between the Lancashire towns of Liverpool and Manchester in England.
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Lloyds Bank
Lloyds Bank plc is a British retail and commercial bank with branches across England and Wales.
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Loading gauge
A loading gauge defines the maximum height and width for railway vehicles and their loads to ensure safe passage through bridges, tunnels and other structures.
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Local government in England
The pattern of local government in England is complex, with the distribution of functions varying according to the local arrangements.
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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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London and Greenwich Railway
The London and Greenwich Railway (L&GR) was opened in London between 1836 and 1838.
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London and North Eastern Railway
The London and North Eastern Railway (LNER) was the second largest (after LMS) of the "Big Four" railway companies created by the Railways Act 1921 in Britain.
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London Overground
London Overground (also known simply as the Overground) is a suburban rail network serving London and its environs.
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London Underground
The London Underground (also known simply as the Underground, or by its nickname the Tube) is a public rapid transit system serving London and some parts of the adjacent counties of Buckinghamshire, Essex and Hertfordshire in the United Kingdom.
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London, Midland and Scottish Railway
The London, Midland and Scottish Railway (LMS)It has been argued that the initials LMSR should be used to be consistent with LNER, GWR and SR.
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Macquarie European Rail
Macquarie European Rail (formerly Lloyds TSB General Leasing) is a Rolling Stock Company (ROSCO) formed in 2009 as part of the Lloyds Banking Group.
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Maglev
Maglev (derived from magnetic levitation) is a system of train transportation that uses two sets of magnets, one set to repel and push the train up off the track as in levitation (hence Maglev, Magnetic-levitation), then another set to move the 'floating train' ahead at great speed taking advantage of the lack of friction.
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Mainline steam trains in Great Britain
Although steam locomotives were withdrawn from normal railway service in Great Britain in 1968, due to sustained public interest including a locomotive preservation movement, steam hauled passenger trains can still be seen on the mainline railway (i.e. Network Rail owned tracks as opposed to heritage railways) in the present day.
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Manchester
Manchester is a city and metropolitan borough in Greater Manchester, England, with a population of 530,300.
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Manchester Metrolink
Metrolink (also known as Manchester Metrolink) is a tram/light rail system in Greater Manchester, England.
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Marlow branch line
The Marlow branch line is a single track railway line between Maidenhead in Berkshire and Bourne End and Marlow in Buckinghamshire.
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Matlock railway station
Matlock Railway Station is a railway station owned by Network Rail and managed by East Midlands Trains in the town of Matlock, Derbyshire, England.
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Mendip Rail
Mendip Rail Ltd is an independent freight operating railway company in Great Britain.
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Merseyrail
Merseyrail is both a train operating company (TOC) and a commuter rail network in and around Liverpool City Region, England.
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Merseytravel
Merseytravel is the passenger transport executive responsible for the coordination of public transport in the Liverpool City Region, North West England.
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Metrication of British transport
A metrication programme for the United Kingdom was announced by the government in 1965 at the behest of the engineering industry and received government approval on condition that its implementation was voluntary, that it was implemented on an industry-by-industry basis and that costs were absorbed where they fell.
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Midland and Great Northern Joint Railway
The Midland and Great Northern Joint Railway, (M&GNJR) was a railway network in England, in the area connecting southern Lincolnshire and north Norfolk.
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Midland Counties Railway
The Midland Counties' Railway (MCR) was a railway company in the United Kingdom which existed between 1839 and 1844, connecting Nottingham, Leicester and Derby with Rugby and thence, via the London and Birmingham Railway, to London.
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Midland Main Line
The Midland Main Line is a major railway line in England from London to Sheffield in the north of England.
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Morgan Stanley
Morgan Stanley is an American multinational investment bank and financial services company headquartered at 1585 Broadway in the Morgan Stanley Building, Midtown Manhattan, New York City.
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National Audit Office (United Kingdom)
The National Audit Office (NAO) is an independent Parliamentary body in the United Kingdom which is responsible for auditing central government departments, government agencies and non-departmental public bodies.
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National Australia Bank
National Australia Bank (abbreviated NAB, branded nab) is one of the four largest financial institutions in Australia in terms of market capitalisation, earnings and customers.
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National Express East Anglia
National Express East Anglia (NXEA) was a train operating company in England owned by National Express, that operated the Greater Anglia franchise from April 2004 until February 2012.
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National Rail
National Rail (NR) in the United Kingdom is the trading name licensed for use by the Rail Delivery Group, an unincorporated association whose membership consists of the passenger train operating companies (TOCs) of England, Scotland, and Wales.
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National Rail Conditions of Travel
The National Rail Conditions of Travel (NRCoT) are a contractual document setting out the consumer's rights and responsibilities when travelling on the National Rail railway network in Great Britain.
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National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers
The National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers (commonly known as the RMT) is a British trade union covering the transport sector.
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Nationalization
Nationalization (or nationalisation) is the process of transforming private assets into public assets by bringing them under the public ownership of a national government or state.
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Nederlandse Spoorwegen
Nederlandse Spoorwegen (NS;; "Dutch Railways") a Dutch state-owned company, the principal passenger railway operator in the Netherlands.
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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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Network SouthEast
Network SouthEast (NSE) was one of the three passenger sectors of British Rail formed in 1982.
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Newcastle railway station
Newcastle railway station (also known as Newcastle Central Station) is on the East Coast Main Line in the United Kingdom, serving the city of Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear.
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Newcastle upon Tyne
Newcastle upon Tyne, commonly known as Newcastle, is a city in Tyne and Wear, North East England, 103 miles (166 km) south of Edinburgh and 277 miles (446 km) north of London on the northern bank of the River Tyne, from the North Sea.
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Night Mail
Night Mail is a 1936 English documentary film directed and produced by Harry Watt and Basil Wright, and produced by the General Post Office (GPO) film unit.
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North Midland Railway
The North Midland Railway was a British railway company, which opened its line from Derby to Rotherham (Masbrough) and Leeds in 1840.
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Northern Hub
The Northern Hub is a rail programme in Northern England to improve and increase train services and reduce journey times between its major cities and towns by electrifying lines and removing a major rail bottleneck in Manchester.
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Northern Powerhouse Rail
Northern Powerhouse Rail (NPR) also known as High Speed 3 (HS3) or Crossrail for the North is a proposed railway network that aims to improve connectivity in the north of England, connecting Liverpool, Manchester, Manchester Airport, Leeds, Huddersfield, Sheffield, Newcastle, and Hull, as well as other significant economic centres.
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Northern Rail (Serco-Abellio)
Northern Rail was an English train operating company owned by Serco-Abellio that operated the Northern franchise from 2004 until 2016.
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Nottingham Express Transit
Nottingham Express Transit (NET) is a tram system in Nottingham, England.
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NS Class 600
The Nederlandse Spoorwegen (NS) Class 600 diesel locomotives were built for shunting duties.
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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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Oligopoly
An oligopoly (from Ancient Greek ὀλίγος (olígos) "few" + πωλεῖν (polein) "to sell") is a market form wherein a market or industry is dominated by a small number of large sellers (oligopolists).
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Open-access operator
An open-access operator is a train operating company that is not subject to franchising, instead purchasing individual slots on the mainline from a railway infrastructure company.
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Oxford railway station
Oxford railway station is a mainline railway station serving the city of Oxford, England.
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Passenger transport executive
In the United Kingdom, passenger transport executives (PTEs) are local government bodies which are responsible for public transport within large urban areas.
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Peak Rail
Peak Rail is a preserved railway in Derbyshire, Central England, which operates a steam and heritage diesel service for tourists and visitors to both the Peak District and the Derbyshire Dales.
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Penistone railway station
Penistone railway station is a railway station which serves the town of Penistone, in the Metropolitan Borough of Barnsley, South Yorkshire, England.
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Port of Felixstowe
The Port of Felixstowe, in Felixstowe, Suffolk is the United Kingdom's busiest container port, dealing with 42% of Britain's containerised trade.
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Porterbrook
Porterbrook is one of the three major rolling stock operating companies (ROSCO) in the United Kingdom (the other two being Angel Trains and Eversholt Rail Group).
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Portishead Railway
The Portishead Railway is a branch line railway running from Portishead in Somerset to the main line immediately west of Bristol, England.
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Portishead, Somerset
Portishead is a coastal town on the Severn Estuary, close to Bristol, but within the unitary authority of North Somerset, which falls within the ceremonial county of Somerset, England.
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Portsmouth
Portsmouth is a port city in Hampshire, England, mainly on Portsea Island, south-west of London and south-east of Southampton.
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Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
The Prime Minister of the United Kingdom is the head of the United Kingdom government.
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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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Public Performance Measure
The Public Performance Measure (PPM) is a measure of the punctuality and reliability of passenger trains in Britain.
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Public sector
The public sector (also called the state sector) is the part of the economy composed of both public services and public enterprises.
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Quadruple track
A quadruple-track railway (also known as a four-track railway) is a railway line consisting of four parallel tracks, with two tracks used in each direction.
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QW Rail Leasing
QW Rail Leasing is a rolling stock operating company (ROSCO) formed in 2008 to fund the purchase of rolling stock in the United Kingdom, which would then be leased to train operating companies (TOCs).
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Rail Delivery Group
The Rail Delivery Group (RDG) is a membership body in the British railway system, bringing together the companies that run Britain’s railway into a single team with one goal - to deliver a better railway for Britain, its businesses and communities.
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Rail freight transport
Rail freight transport is the use of railroads and trains to transport cargo as opposed to human passengers.
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Rail Regulator
The Rail Regulator was a statutory office, created with effect from 1 December 1993 by section 1 of the Railways Act 1993, for the independent economic regulation of the British railway industry.
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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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Rail subsidies
Many countries offer subsidies to their railways because of the social and economic benefits that it brings.
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Rail transport by country
This page provides an index of articles on rail transport by country.
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Rail transport in Belgium
Belgium has an extensive rail network.
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Rail transport in France
Rail transport in France is operated mostly by SNCF, the French national railway company.
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Rail transport in Ireland
Heavy Rail services in Ireland (InterCity, commuter and freight) are provided by Iarnród Éireann in the Republic of Ireland and by Northern Ireland Railways in Northern Ireland.
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Rail transport in the Netherlands
Rail transport in the Netherlands uses a dense railway network, that connects virtually all major towns and cities, counting as many train stations as there are municipalities in the Netherlands.
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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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Railway electrification in Great Britain
Railway electrification in Great Britain began during the late 19th century.
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Railway Mania
Railway Mania was an instance of speculative frenzy in Britain in the 1840s.
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Railways Act 1921
The Railways Act 1921 (c. 55), also known as the Grouping Act, was an Act of Parliament enacted by the British government and intended to stem the losses being made by many of the country's 120 railway companies, move the railways away from internal competition and retain some of the benefits which the country had derived from a government-controlled railway during and after the Great War of 1914–1918.
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Railways Act 1993
The Railways Act 1993 was introduced by John Major's Conservative government and passed on 5 November 1993.
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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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Railways and Transport Safety Act 2003
The Railways and Transport Safety Act 2003 (c 10) is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
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Rapid transit
Rapid transit or mass rapid transit, also known as heavy rail, metro, MRT, subway, tube, U-Bahn or underground, is a type of high-capacity public transport generally found in urban areas.
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Reading, Berkshire
Reading is a large, historically important minster town in Berkshire, England, of which it is the county town.
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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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Regions of England
The regions of England, formerly known as the government office regions, are the highest tier of sub-national division in England.
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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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Riviera Trains
Riviera Trains Limited is a railway spot-hire company, based at Crewe in Cheshire.
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Rolling stock operating company
A rolling stock operating company (ROSCO) owns and maintains railway engines and carriages which are leased to train operating companies who operate the trains.
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Romney, Hythe and Dymchurch Railway
The Romney, Hythe & Dymchurch Railway (RH&DR) is a gauge light railway in Kent, England, operating steam and internal combustion locomotives.
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Royal Mail
Royal Mail plc (Post Brenhinol; a' Phuist Rìoghail) is a postal service and courier company in the United Kingdom, originally established in 1516.
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Royal train
A royal train is a set of railway carriages dedicated for the use of the monarch or other members of a royal family.
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Ryde Pier
Ryde Pier is an early 19th century pier serving the town of Ryde, on the Isle of Wight, off the south coast of England.
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ScotRail (brand)
ScotRail (Rèile na h-Alba) has been the brand name used for all Scottish regional and commuter rail services, including some cross-border services, since September 1983.
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Scottish Government
The Scottish Government (Riaghaltas na h-Alba; Scots Govrenment) is the executive of the devolved Scottish Parliament.
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Sheffield Supertram
The Sheffield Supertram (officially the Stagecoach Supertram) is a light rail tram system in the city of Sheffield, England.
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Single-track railway
A single-track railway is a railway where trains traveling in both directions share the same track.
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Skipton railway station
Skipton railway station is a Grade II listed station which serves the town of Skipton in North Yorkshire, England on the Airedale Line, which gives Skipton access to destinations such as Leeds, Bradford, Carlisle, Lancaster and Morecambe.
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Skipton–East Lancashire Rail Action Partnership
The Skipton East Lancashire Rail Action Partnership (SELRAP) is the campaign to reopen the Skipton to Colne railway line, as part of the rail network of the United Kingdom.
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South Staffordshire line
The South Staffordshire line is a railway line that once connected Lichfield in Staffordshire, England with Dudley, formerly in Worcestershire.
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South Yorkshire Passenger Transport Executive
The South Yorkshire Passenger Transport Executive is the passenger transport executive for South Yorkshire in England.
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Southeastern (train operating company)
London & South Eastern Railway Limited, trading as Southeastern, is a British train operating company owned by the Anglo-French joint venture Govia that provides rail services in South East England.
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Southern Railway (UK)
The Southern Railway (SR), sometimes shortened to 'Southern', was a British railway company established in the 1923 Grouping.
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Sovereign Trains
Sovereign Trains was a rolling stock operating company (ROSCO) formed in 2007 as part of the same group as Grand Central. The company was initially formed to fund the purchase of rolling stock for Grand Central for its operations between London King's Cross and Sunderland, which Grand Central leased from Sovereign.
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St Andrews
St Andrews (S.; Saunt Aundraes; Cill Rìmhinn) is a town on the east coast of Fife in Scotland, 10 miles (16 km) southeast of Dundee and 30 miles (50 km) northeast of Edinburgh.
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St Andrews Rail Link
The St Andrews Rail Link (StARLink) Campaign was established in 1989 with the aim of reconnecting St Andrews to the railway.
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St Pancras railway station
St Pancras railway station, also known as London St Pancras and officially since 2007 as St Pancras International, is a central London railway terminus located on Euston Road in the London Borough of Camden.
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Stagecoach Group
Stagecoach Group plc is an international transport group operating buses, trains, trams and express coaches.
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Standard-gauge railway
A standard-gauge railway is a railway with a track gauge of.
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Stockton and Darlington Railway
The Stockton and Darlington Railway (S&DR) was a railway company that operated in north-east England from 1825 to 1863.
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Stourbridge Junction railway station
Stourbridge Junction is one of two railway stations serving the town of Stourbridge, in the Metropolitan Borough of Dudley in the West Midlands, England.
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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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Strathclyde Partnership for Transport
The Strathclyde Partnership for Transport (SPT) is a passenger transport executive responsible for planning and coordinating regional transport, especially the public transport system, in the Strathclyde area of western Scotland.
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Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation
is a Japanese multinational banking and financial services company headquartered in Yurakucho, Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan.
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Swindon
Swindon is a large town in Wiltshire, South West England, between Bristol, to the west, and Reading, the same distance east.
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Taff Vale Railway
The Taff Vale Railway (TVR) was a standard gauge railway in South Wales, built to serve the iron and coal industries around Merthyr, and to connect them with docks in Cardiff.
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Thameslink Programme
The Thameslink Programme, originally Thameslink 2000, is a £6 billion project in south-east England to upgrade and expand the Thameslink rail network to provide new and longer trains between a wider range of stations to the north and to the south of London.
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Tilting train
A tilting train is a train that has a mechanism enabling increased speed on regular rail tracks.
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Tom Winsor
Sir Thomas Philip Winsor (born 7 December 1957) is a British lawyer and economic regulatory professional.
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Town centre
A town centre is the commercial or geographical centre or core area of a town.
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Train ferry
A train ferry is a ship (ferry) designed to carry railway vehicles.
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Train operating company
A train operating company (TOC) is a business operating passenger trains on the railway system of Great Britain under the collective National Rail brand.
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Train station
A train station, railway station, railroad station, or depot (see below) is a railway facility or area where trains regularly stop to load or unload passengers or freight.
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Tramlink
Tramlink is a light rail tram system serving Croydon and surrounding areas in South London, England.
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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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Transport for Greater Manchester
Transport for Greater Manchester (TfGM) is the public body responsible for co-ordinating transport services throughout Greater Manchester, in North West England.
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Transport for London
Transport for London (TfL) is a local government body responsible for the transport system in Greater London, England.
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Transport for West Midlands
Transport for West Midlands (TfWM) is the public body responsible for co-ordinating transport services in the West Midlands metropolitan county in England.
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Transport Salaried Staffs' Association
The Transport Salaried Staffs' Association (TSSA) is a trade union for workers in the transport and travel industries in the United Kingdom and Ireland.
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Transport Select Committee
The Transport Select Committee is a select committee of the House of Commons in the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
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Travelling Post Office
A Travelling Post Office (TPO) was a type of mail train used in Great Britain and Ireland where the post was sorted en route.
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Tyne and Wear Metro
The Tyne and Wear Metro, referred to locally as simply The Metro, is a rapid transit and light rail system in North East England, serving Newcastle upon Tyne, Gateshead, South Tyneside, North Tyneside and Sunderland in the Tyne and Wear region.
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Tyne and Wear Passenger Transport Executive
Nexus is the passenger transport executive responsible for the coordination of public transport in Tyne and Wear, England.
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Uckfield railway station
Uckfield railway station is the southern terminus of a branch of the Oxted Line in England, serving the town of Uckfield, East Sussex.
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UK Notified Bodies
UK Notified Bodies (UK NoBos) are UK bodies authorised to assess the compatibility of works or equipment with Technical Specifications for Interoperability (TSI) as part of the system to effectively and safely allow the interoperability of railway services within the European Union.
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UK Rail Leasing
UK Rail Leasing (UKRL) is an organisation based at Leicester Traction Maintenance Depot (TMD) offering locomotive leasing and rail vehicle engineering services.
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UK railway signalling
The railway signalling systems used across the majority of the United Kingdom rail network use line-side signals to advise the driver of the status of the section of track ahead.
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Unintended consequences
In the social sciences, unintended consequences (sometimes unanticipated consequences or unforeseen consequences) are outcomes that are not the ones foreseen and intended by a purposeful action.
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Urban rail in the United Kingdom
Urban rail, commuter rail, regional rail, or suburban rail plays a key role in public transport in many of the United Kingdom's major cities.
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Venice-Simplon Orient Express
The Venice Simplon-Orient-Express, or VSOE, is a private luxury train service from London to Venice and other European cities.
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Victorian era
In the history of the United Kingdom, the Victorian era was the period of Queen Victoria's reign, from 20 June 1837 until her death on 22 January 1901.
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W. H. Auden
Wystan Hugh Auden (21 February 1907 – 29 September 1973) was an English-American poet.
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Walsall railway station
Walsall railway station is the principal railway station of Walsall, West Midlands, England and situated in the heart of the town.
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Wealden Line
The Wealden LineBroadbent, S., p. 48.
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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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West Coast Railways
West Coast Railways (WCR), is a railway spot-hire company and charter train operator based at Carnforth MPD in Lancashire.
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West Midlands (region)
The West Midlands is one of nine official regions of England at the first level of NUTS for statistical purposes.
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West Midlands Metro
West Midlands Metro is a light-rail/tram line in the county of West Midlands, England, operating between the cities of Birmingham and Wolverhampton via the towns of West Bromwich and Wednesbury.
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West Yorkshire Metro
Metro is the passenger information brand used by the West Yorkshire Combined Authority in England.
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William Ewart Gladstone
William Ewart Gladstone, (29 December 1809 – 19 May 1898) was a British statesman of the Liberal Party.
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Woodhead line
The Woodhead line was a railway line linking Sheffield, Penistone and Manchester in the north of England.
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World War I
World War I (often abbreviated as WWI or WW1), also known as the First World War, the Great War, or the War to End All Wars, was a global war originating in Europe that lasted from 28 July 1914 to 11 November 1918.
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World War II
World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier.
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York railway station
York railway station is on the East Coast Main Line in the United Kingdom, serving the city of York, North Yorkshire.
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York–Beverley line
The York–Beverley line was a railway line between York, Market Weighton and Beverley in Yorkshire, England.
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2012 Summer Olympics
The 2012 Summer Olympics, formally the Games of the XXX Olympiad and commonly known as London 2012, was an international multi-sport event that was held from 27 July to 12 August 2012 in London, United Kingdom.
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3i Infrastructure
3i Infrastructure plc is an investment business headquartered in Jersey.
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References
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