81 relations: Aberdeen railway station, Arriva UK Trains, Banbury railway station, Belgium, Birmingham, Birmingham New Street railway station, Blackpool North railway station, Bombardier Transportation, Bournemouth railway station, Brighton railway station, Bristol Temple Meads railway station, British Rail, British Rail Class 158, British Rail Class 220, British Rail Class 221, British Rail Class 43 (HST), British Rail Class 47, British Rail Class 57, British Rail Class 67, British Rail Class 86, British Rail Class 90, British Rail Classes 253, 254 and 255, British Rail Mark 3, British Railways Mark 2, Cardiff Central railway station, Cheltenham Spa railway station, Clock-face scheduling, Cross Country Route, CrossCountry, DB Cargo UK, Department for Transport, Diesel locomotive, Diesel multiple unit, East Coast (train operating company), East Midlands Trains, Edinburgh Waverley railway station, Electric locomotive, Euston railway station, FM Rail, Glasgow Central station, Grand Central (train operating company), Great North Eastern Railway, Great Western Railway (train operating company), Holyhead railway station, InterCity (British Rail), InterCity 125, InterCity West Coast, Liverpool Lime Street railway station, London Paddington station, Manchester Piccadilly station, ..., Midland Mainline, Network Rail, Newcastle railway station, Newquay railway station, North East England, North West England, Northern England, Oxford railway station, Paignton railway station, Passenger, Penzance railway station, Plymouth railway station, Poole railway station, Portsmouth Harbour railway station, Railtrack, Ramsgate railway station, Riviera Trains, Rolling stock, South Wales, South West England, Stagecoach Group, Strategic Rail Authority, Swansea railway station, Swindon railway station, Tilting train, Train operating company, Virgin Group, Virgin Rail Group, Virgin Trains, West Coast Main Line, Weymouth railway station. Expand index (31 more) »
Aberdeen railway station
Aberdeen railway station is the only railway station in Aberdeen, Scotland.
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Arriva UK Trains
Arriva UK Trains Limited is the company that oversees Arriva's train operating companies in the United Kingdom.
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Banbury railway station
Banbury railway station serves the town of Banbury in Oxfordshire, England.
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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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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 New Street railway station
Birmingham New Street is the largest and busiest of the three main railway stations in the Birmingham City Centre, England.
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Blackpool North railway station
Blackpool North railway station is the main station serving the seaside resort of Blackpool in Lancashire, England.
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Bombardier Transportation
Bombardier Transportation is the rail equipment division of the Canadian firm Bombardier Inc. Bombardier Transportation is one of the world's largest companies in the rail vehicle and equipment manufacturing and servicing industry.
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Bournemouth railway station
Bournemouth railway station is the main railway station serving the beach-side town of Bournemouth, Dorset, England.
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Brighton railway station
Brighton railway station is the southern terminus of the Brighton Main Line in England, and the principal station serving the city of Brighton, East Sussex.
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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 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 158
The British Rail Class 158 Express Sprinter is a diesel multiple-unit (or DMU), built specifically for British Rail between 1989 and 1992 by British Rail Engineering Limited (BREL) at its Derby Litchurch Lane Works.
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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 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 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 86
The British Rail Class 86 is the standard electric locomotive built during the 1960s.
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British Rail Class 90
The British Rail Class 90 electric locomotives were built by British Rail Engineering Limited at Crewe Works in 1987-1990, weighing 84.5 tonnes and with a top speed of.
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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 Railways Mark 2
The Mark 2 family of railway carriages were British Rail's second design of carriages.
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Cardiff Central railway station
Cardiff Central railway station (Caerdydd Canolog) is a major railway station on the South Wales Main Line in Cardiff, United Kingdom and one of two hubs of the city's urban rail network.
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Cheltenham Spa railway station
Cheltenham Spa railway station is a railway station serving Cheltenham in Gloucestershire, England.
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Clock-face scheduling
A clock-face schedule or cyclic schedule is a timetable system under which public transport services run at consistent intervals, as opposed to a timetable that is purely driven by demand and has irregular headways.
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Cross Country Route
The Cross Country Route is a long-distance UK rail route that has in its central part superseded the Midland Railway.
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CrossCountry
CrossCountry (legal name XC Trains Limited) is a train operating company in the United Kingdom owned by Arriva UK Trains, operating the New Cross Country franchise.
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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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Diesel locomotive
A diesel locomotive is a type of railway locomotive in which the prime mover is a diesel engine.
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Diesel multiple unit
A diesel multiple unit or DMU is a multiple-unit train powered by on-board diesel engines.
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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 Midlands Trains
East Midlands Trains (EMT) is a British train operating company owned by Stagecoach Group.
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Edinburgh Waverley railway station
Edinburgh Waverley railway station (also known simply as Waverley) is the principal station serving Edinburgh, the capital city of Scotland.
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Electric locomotive
An electric locomotive is a locomotive powered by electricity from overhead lines, a third rail or on-board energy storage such as a battery or a supercapacitor.
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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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FM Rail
FM Rail was a railway charter company based in Derby, England.
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Glasgow Central station
Glasgow Central (Glaschu Mheadhain, Glesga Central) (also known simply as Central) is the major mainline rail terminus in Glasgow, Scotland.
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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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Great North Eastern Railway
Great North Eastern Railway, often referred to as GNER, was a train operating company in the United Kingdom owned by Sea Containers that operated the InterCity East Coast franchise from April 1996 until December 2007, when Sea Containers was stripped of the franchise due to poor financial management.
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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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Holyhead railway station
Holyhead railway station (Gorsaf reilffordd Caergybi) serves the Welsh town of Holyhead (Caergybi) on Holy Island, Anglesey.
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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 West Coast
InterCity West Coast is a railway franchise in the United Kingdom for passenger trains on the West Coast Main Line (and branches thereof), between London Euston, the West Midlands, North Wales, Manchester, Liverpool, Edinburgh, Glasgow, and other major destinations between.
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Liverpool Lime Street railway station
Liverpool Lime Street is a terminus railway station, and the main station serving the city centre of Liverpool.
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London Paddington station
Paddington, also known as London Paddington, is a Central London railway terminus and London Underground station complex, located on Praed Street in the Paddington area.
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Manchester Piccadilly station
Manchester Piccadilly is the principal railway station in Manchester, England.
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Midland Mainline
Midland Mainline was a train operating company in the United Kingdom owned by National Express that operated the Midland Main Line franchise from April 1996 until November 2007.
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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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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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Newquay railway station
Newquay railway station serves the town and seaside resort of Newquay in Cornwall, England.
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North East England
North East England is one of nine official regions of England at the first level of NUTS for statistical purposes.
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North West England
North West England, one of nine official regions of England, consists of the five counties of Cheshire, Cumbria, Greater Manchester, Lancashire and Merseyside.
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Northern England
Northern England, also known simply as the North, is the northern part of England, considered as a single cultural area.
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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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Paignton railway station
Paignton railway station serves the town and seaside resort of Paignton in Devon, England.
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Passenger
A passenger (also abbreviated as pax) is a person who travels in a vehicle but bears little or no responsibility for the tasks required for that vehicle to arrive at its destination or otherwise operate the vehicle.
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Penzance railway station
Penzance railway station serves the town of Penzance in west Cornwall, England.
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Plymouth railway station
Plymouth railway station serves the city of Plymouth, Devon, England.
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Poole railway station
Down stopping train in 1958 Poole railway station is on the South Western Main Line serving the town of Poole in Dorset, England.
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Portsmouth Harbour railway station
Portsmouth Harbour railway station is a railway station in Portsmouth, England.
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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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Ramsgate railway station
Ramsgate railway station serves the town of Ramsgate in Thanet in Kent, England, and is at least 10 minutes' walk from the town centre.
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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
The term rolling stock in rail transport industry originally referred to any vehicles that move on a railway.
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South Wales
South Wales (De Cymru) is the region of Wales bordered by England and the Bristol Channel to the east and south, and Mid Wales and West Wales to the north and west.
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South West England
South West England is one of nine official regions of England.
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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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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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Swansea railway station
Swansea railway station is a railway station serving Swansea, Wales, and is the fourth busiest in Wales after Cardiff Central, Cardiff Queen Street and Newport.
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Swindon railway station
Swindon railway station is on the Great Western Main Line in South West England, serving the town of Swindon, Wiltshire.
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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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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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Virgin Group
Virgin Group Ltd. is a British multinational corporation venture capital conglomerate founded by entrepreneurs Sir Richard Branson and Nik Powell.
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Virgin Rail Group
Virgin Rail Group was formed by the Virgin Group to bid for rail franchises in the United Kingdom during the privatisation of British Rail.
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Virgin Trains
Virgin Trains (legal name West Coast Trains Limited) is a train operating company in the United Kingdom owned by Virgin Rail Group that has operated the InterCity West Coast franchise since 9 March 1997.
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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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Weymouth railway station
Weymouth railway station is the main railway station serving the town of Weymouth in Dorset, England (the other being Upwey station which is located north of the town centre).
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virgin_CrossCountry