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A1 road (Great Britain)
The A1 is the longest numbered road in the UK, at.
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Abbots Ripton
Abbots Ripton is a village and civil parish in Cambridgeshire, England.
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Abbots Ripton rail accident
The Abbots Ripton rail disaster occurred on 21 January 1876 at Abbots Ripton, then in the county of Huntingdonshire, England, now in Cambridgeshire, on the Great Northern Railway main line, part of the East Coast Main Line, and previously thought to be exemplary for railway safety.
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Abellio ScotRail
Abellio ScotRail, (Rèile na h-Alba), operating services under the name ScotRail, is the national train operating company of Scotland.
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Aberdeen
Aberdeen (Aiberdeen,; Obar Dheathain; Aberdonia) is Scotland's third most populous city, one of Scotland's 32 local government council areas and the United Kingdom's 37th most populous built-up area, with an official population estimate of 196,670 for the city of Aberdeen and for the local authority area.
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Aberdeen railway station
Aberdeen railway station is the only railway station in Aberdeen, Scotland.
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Acklington railway station
Acklington railway station is on the East Coast Main Line in the United Kingdom, serving the village of Acklington, Northumberland.
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Aire and Calder Navigation
The Aire and Calder Navigation is the canalised section of the Rivers Aire and Calder in West Yorkshire, England.
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Alexandra Palace railway station
Alexandra Palace railway station is on the Great Northern Route that forms part of the East Coast Main Line, and takes its name from the nearby Alexandra Palace in the London Borough of Haringey, north London.
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Alnmouth railway station
Alnmouth railway station is on the East Coast Main Line in the United Kingdom, serving the village of Alnmouth and neighbouring settlements including Alnwick, in Northumberland.
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Anglo-Scottish border
The Anglo-Scottish border between England and Scotland runs for 96 miles (154 km) between Marshall Meadows Bay on the east coast and the Solway Firth in the west.
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Aqueduct (bridge)
Bridges for conveying water, called aqueducts or water bridges, are constructed to convey watercourses across gaps such as valleys or ravines.
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Arup Group
Arup (officially Arup Group Limited) is a multinational professional services firm headquartered in London which provides engineering, design, planning, project management and consulting services for all aspects of the built environment.
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Barnet Tunnel
The Barnet Tunnel is a railway tunnel in north London on the East Coast Main Line.
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Berwick-upon-Tweed railway station
Berwick-upon-Tweed railway station is on the East Coast Main Line in the United Kingdom, serving the town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, Northumberland.
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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 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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Borders Railway
The Borders Railway connects the city of Edinburgh with Galashiels and Tweedbank in the Scottish Borders.
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Bounds Green TMD
Bounds Green TMD is a traction maintenance depot situated in North London.
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Bradford Interchange
Bradford Interchange is a transport interchange in Bradford, West Yorkshire, England, which consists of a railway station and combined bus and coach station adjacent.
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Braking distance
Braking distance refers to the distance a vehicle will travel from the point when its brakes are fully applied to when it comes to a complete stop.
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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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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 142
The British Rail Class 142 is a class of Pacer diesel multiple-unit passenger trains used in the United Kingdom.
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British Rail Class 144
The British Rail Class 144 ''Pacer'' diesel multiple units (DMUs) were built by British Rail Engineering Limited's, Derby Litchurch Lane Works from 1986 to 1987.
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British Rail Class 153
The British Rail Class 153 ''Super Sprinter'' are single-coach diesel multiple units converted from two-coach Class 155s.
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British Rail Class 156
The British Rail Class 156 is a diesel multiple-unit train.
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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 170
The Class 170 Turbostar is a British diesel multiple-unit (DMU) train built by Bombardier Transportation (and previously Adtranz) at its Derby Litchurch Lane Works.
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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 185
The Class 185 Pennine units are a diesel multiple-unit (DMU) passenger train of the Desiro UK family built by Siemens in Germany for the train operating company First TransPennine Express.
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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 318
The British Rail Class 318 is an electric multiple unit (EMU) train, which operates exclusively in the Strathclyde Partnership for Transport network in West Central Scotland.
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British Rail Class 320
The British Rail Class 320 is an alternating current (AC) electric multiple-unit (EMU) train found on the Strathclyde rail network in Central Scotland, and used on the North Clyde Line between Balloch and Airdrie via Glasgow Queen Street and also the Argyle Line between Dalmuir and Milngavie to Motherwell and Larkhall stations via Glasgow Central they can also be seen on Glasgow Central to Lanark as well as Glasgow Central to Newton and Cathcart Circle duties along with Class 318 and Class 380s.
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British Rail Class 350
The British Rail Class 350 Desiro is a class of electric multiple-unit passenger train built by Siemens in 2004–05, 2008–09 and 2013–14.
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British Rail Class 365
The British Rail Class 365 Networker Express are dual-voltage (25 kV AC and 750 V DC) electric multiple-unit trains built by ABB York from 1994 to 1995.
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British Rail Class 380
The Class 380 Desiro is a type of electric multiple-unit train that operates on the national railway network in Scotland.
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British Rail Class 387
The Class 387 Electrostar is an electric multiple unit (EMU) built by Bombardier Transportation for Thameslink (now transferred to Great Northern), Gatwick Express, c2c and Great Western Railway (GWR), with the first delivered in December 2014.
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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 41 (HST)
The British Rail Class 41 was the original classification for the power cars of the prototype High Speed Train (HST) of 1972.
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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 700
The British Rail Class 700 is an electric multiple-unit passenger train built between 2014 and 2018 for Thameslink as part of the Thameslink Programme in the United Kingdom.
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British Rail Class 717
The Class 717 is an electric multiple unit being constructed for Great Northern by German rolling stock manufacturer Siemens for services from Moorgate, London.
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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 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 DP2
DP2, meaning Diesel Prototype number 2, was a prototype Type 4 mainline diesel locomotive.
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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 Rail Mark 4
British Rail's fourth design of passenger carriages was designated Mark 4, built for use in InterCity 225 sets on the East Coast Main Line between King's Cross, Leeds, Newcastle and Edinburgh.
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British Rail Mark 5 (CAF)
The British Rail Mark 5 and Mark 5A is the designation given to new locomotive hauled rail carriages being built for operation by two train operating companies in Great Britain, Caledonian Sleeper and TransPennine Express.
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British Railways DP1
English Electric DP1, commonly known as Deltic, was a prototype demonstrator locomotive employing two Napier Deltic engines, built by English Electric in 1955.
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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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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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Caledonian Sleeper
Caledonian Sleeper is the collective name for overnight sleeper train services between London and Scotland, in the United Kingdom.
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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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Cambridgeshire
Cambridgeshire (abbreviated Cambs.), is an East Anglian county in England, bordering Lincolnshire to the north, Norfolk to the north-east, Suffolk to the east, Essex and Hertfordshire to the south, and Bedfordshire and Northamptonshire to the west.
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Central Belt
The Central Belt of Scotland is the area of highest population density within Scotland.
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Chain (unit)
A chain is a unit of length that measures 66 feet, 22 yards, 100 links,or 4 rods (20.1168 m).
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Chathill railway station
Chathill railway station is on the East Coast Main Line in the United Kingdom, serving Chathill and surrounding villages including Seahouses, Embleton, Bamburgh and Belford, in Northumberland.
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Chester-le-Street railway station
Chester-le-Street railway station is on the East Coast Main Line in the United Kingdom, serving the town of Chester-le-Street, County Durham.
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Clement Attlee
Clement Richard Attlee, 1st Earl Attlee, (3 January 1883 – 8 October 1967) was a British statesman of the Labour Party who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1945 to 1951 and Leader of the Labour Party from 1935 to 1955.
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Commuter rail
Commuter rail, also called suburban rail, is a passenger rail transport service that primarily operates between a city centre and middle to outer suburbs beyond 15 km (10 miles) and commuter towns or other locations that draw large numbers of commuters—people who travel on a daily basis.
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Connington South rail crash
The Connington South rail crash occurred on 5 March 1967 on the East Coast Main Line near the village of Conington, Huntingdonshire, England.
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Copenhagen Tunnel
The Copenhagen Tunnel is a set of three parallel railway tunnels carrying the main line tracks out of London's King's Cross terminus under the rising ground at Barnsbury, about a mile north of the station.
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Craigentinny TMD
Craigentinny Traction Maintenance Depot (TMD) is a railway depot in the Craigentinny area of Edinburgh, Scotland.
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Cramlington railway station
Cramlington railway station is on the East Coast Main Line in the United Kingdom, serving the town of Cramlington, Northumberland.
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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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Cumbernauld Line
The Cumbernauld Line is a suburban railway line linking Glasgow to Falkirk via Cumbernauld in Scotland.
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Cumbria
Cumbria is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan county in North West England.
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Darlington
Darlington is a large market town in County Durham, in North East England.
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Darlington railway station
Darlington railway station is on the East Coast Main Line in the United Kingdom, serving the town of Darlington, County Durham.
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David Mitchell (politician)
Sir David Bower Mitchell (20 June 1928 – 30 August 2014) was a British Conservative politician who was a member of Parliament for over 30 years, and who served as a junior minister in Margaret Thatcher's government.
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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 engine
The diesel engine (also known as a compression-ignition or CI engine), named after Rudolf Diesel, is an internal combustion engine in which ignition of the fuel which is injected into the combustion chamber is caused by the elevated temperature of the air in the cylinder due to mechanical compression (adiabatic compression).
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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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Digswell Viaduct
The Digswell Viaduct, also called Welwyn Viaduct, is a railway viaduct that carries the East Coast Main Line over the River Mimram and is a locally important landmark.
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Direct Rail Services
Direct Rail Services (DRS) is a rail freight company in Great Britain.
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Doncaster
Doncaster is a large market town in South Yorkshire, England.
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Doncaster rail crash
The Doncaster rail crash was a railway accident that took place near to Doncaster, England.
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Doncaster rail crash (1947)
The Doncaster rail crash (1947) was a railway accident that occurred just south of Doncaster station at Bridge Junction.
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Doncaster railway station
Doncaster railway station is on the East Coast Main Line in the United Kingdom, serving the town of Doncaster, South Yorkshire.
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Double-track railway
A double-track railway usually involves running one track in each direction, compared to a single-track railway where trains in both directions share the same track.
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Drax power station
Drax power station is a large coal-fired power station in North Yorkshire, England, capable of co-firing biomass and petcoke, and its name comes from the nearby village of Drax.
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Driving Van Trailer
A Driving Van Trailer (DVT) is a purpose-built control car railway vehicle that allows the driver to operate a locomotive at the opposite end of a train.
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Dunbar railway station
Dunbar railway station serves the town of Dunbar in East Lothian, Scotland.
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Dundee railway station
Dundee railway station serves the city of Dundee on the east coast of Scotland.
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Durham railway station
Durham railway station is on the East Coast Main Line in the United Kingdom, serving the city of Durham in the North East of England.
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Durham, England
Durham (locally) is a historic city and the county town of County Durham in North East England.
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Ealing comedies
The Ealing comedies is an informal name for a series of comedy films produced by the London-based Ealing Studios during the period 1947 to 1957.
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East Anglia
East Anglia is a geographical area in the East of England.
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East Midlands
The East Midlands is one of nine official regions of England at the first level of NUTS for statistical purposes.
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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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East of England
The East of England is one of nine official regions of England at the first level of NUTS for statistical purposes.
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Eastern Region of British Railways
The Eastern Region was a region of British Railways from 1948, whose operating area could be identified from the dark blue signs and colour schemes that adorned its station and other railway buildings.
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Edinburgh
Edinburgh (Dùn Èideann; Edinburgh) is the capital city of Scotland and one of its 32 council areas.
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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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Edinburgh–Aberdeen line
The Edinburgh–Aberdeen line is a railway line linking Edinburgh with Aberdeen via the Forth Bridge, the Tay Bridge and Dundee.
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Edinburgh–Dunblane line
The Edinburgh–Dunblane line is a railway line in East Central Scotland.
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Eggborough power station
Eggborough Power Station is a large coal-fired power station in North Yorkshire, England, capable of co-firing biomass.
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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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Electric multiple unit
An electric multiple unit or EMU is a multiple-unit train consisting of self-propelled carriages, using electricity as the motive power.
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Electro-diesel multiple unit
An electro-diesel multiple unit is a form of passenger rail car powered either from an electricity supply (like an electric multiple unit) or by using the onboard diesel engine (like a diesel-electric multiple unit).
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Elizabethan Express
Elizabethan Express is a 1954 British Transport Film that follows The Elizabethan, a non-stop British Railways service from London to Edinburgh along the East Coast Main Line.
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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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Engineer's Line Reference
An Engineer's Line Reference (or ELR for short) is a three or four-character code used in the British rail network to refer to a section of a track or route.
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English Electric
The English Electric Company Limited was a British industrial manufacturer formed after the armistice of World War I at the end of 1918.
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Ernst & Young
Ernst & Young (doing business as EY) is a multinational professional services firm headquartered in London, England.
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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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Eurostar
Eurostar is a high-speed railway service connecting London with Amsterdam, Avignon, Brussels, Lille, Lyon, Marseille, Paris and Rotterdam.
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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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Fife Circle Line
The Fife Circle is the local rail service north from Edinburgh.
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Flying junction
A flying junction or flyover is a railway junction at which one or more diverging or converging tracks in a multiple-track route cross other tracks on the route by bridge to avoid conflict with other train movements.
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Flying Scotsman (train)
The Flying Scotsman is an express passenger train service that has operated between Edinburgh and London, the capitals of Scotland and England, via the East Coast Main Line.
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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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GB Railfreight
GB Railfreight is a rail freight company in the United Kingdom.
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General Electric Company
The General Electric Company, or GEC, was a major UK-based industrial conglomerate involved in consumer and defence electronics, communications, and engineering.
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Get Carter
Get Carter is a 1971 British crime film directed by Mike Hodges and starring Michael Caine, Ian Hendry, Britt Ekland, John Osborne and Bryan Mosley.
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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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Glasgow–Edinburgh via Carstairs line
The Glasgow–Edinburgh via Carstairs line is a main railway route which connects the Scottish cities of Glasgow and Edinburgh, by means of their respective branches of the West Coast Main Line (WCML).
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Glasgow–Edinburgh via Falkirk line
The Glasgow–Edinburgh via Falkirk line is a mainline railway line linking Glasgow and Edinburgh via Falkirk in Scotland.
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Goswick
Goswick is a hamlet in Northumberland, England, situated approximately south-east of Berwick-upon-Tweed, England, between the A1 and the North Sea coast.
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Goswick rail crash
The Goswick rail crash occurred on 26 October 1947 near the village of Goswick, Northumberland, England.
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Govia Thameslink Railway
Govia Thameslink Railway (GTR) is a train operating company that operates the Thameslink, Southern and Great Northern (TSGN) rail franchise in 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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Grantham
Grantham is a town in the South Kesteven district of Lincolnshire, England.
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Grantham rail accident
The Grantham rail accident occurred on 19 September 1906.
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Grantham railway station
Grantham railway station is on the East Coast Main Line in the United Kingdom, serving the town of Grantham, Lincolnshire.
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Great Britain
Great Britain, also known as Britain, is a large island in the north Atlantic Ocean off the northwest coast of continental Europe.
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Great Heck rail crash
The Great Heck rail crash, widely known as the Selby rail crash, was a high-speed train accident that occurred at Great Heck near Selby, North Yorkshire, England on the morning of 28 February 2001.
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Great Northern and Great Eastern Joint Railway
The Great Northern and Great Eastern Joint Railway, colloquially referred to as "the Joint Line"Joint Line Joy, in the Railway Magazine, June 2015 was a railway line connecting Doncaster and Lincoln with March and Huntingdon in the eastern counties of England.
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Great Northern Railway (Great Britain)
The Great Northern Railway (GNR) was a British railway company established by the Great Northern Railway Act of 1846.
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Great Northern Route
The Great Northern Route (formerly known as Great Northern Electrics) is the name given to suburban rail services run on the southern end of Britain's East Coast Main Line and its associated branches.
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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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Greater London
Greater London is a region of England which forms the administrative boundaries of London, as well as a county for the purposes of the lieutenancies.
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Hadley Wood railway station
Hadley Wood railway station is in the London Borough of Enfield in north London, England.
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Hambleton Junction
Hambleton Junction is a grade-separated railway junction near Selby, North Yorkshire, England, which connects the East Coast Main Line with the Leeds to Selby Line.
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Harrogate railway station
Harrogate railway station serves the town of Harrogate in North Yorkshire, England.
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Harry Potter
Harry Potter is a series of fantasy novels written by British author J. K. Rowling.
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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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Hatfield rail crash (1870)
On a frosty Boxing day in 1870 the driver of the 16:25 from London King's Cross to Peterborough noticed an 'uneasy oscillation' as he passed over Marshmoor level crossing, 2 miles south of Hatfield station.
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Haymarket TMD
Haymarket TMD is a railway Traction Maintenance Depot situated inside Edinburgh, Scotland, next to Haymarket station and Murrayfield Stadium.
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Heaton TMD
Heaton TMD is a railway Traction Maintenance Depot situated in the Heaton area of Newcastle upon Tyne, England, it is located next to the East Coast Main Line, around east of Newcastle station.
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Hertford Loop Line
The Hertford Line (also known colloquially as the Hertford Loop) is a branch of the East Coast Main Line, part of the Northern City Line commuter route to London for Hertford and other Hertfordshire towns and an occasional diversion route for the main line.
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Hertford North railway station
Hertford North railway station is one of two stations serving the town of Hertford in Hertfordshire, England with the other being Hertford East railway station.
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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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Highland Main Line
The Highland Main Line is a railway line in Scotland.
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Hitchin Flyover
The Hitchin Flyover is a grade-separated single-track railway flyover on the Great Northern Route near Hitchin, Hertfordshire, England, which carries the Down Cambridge Flyover line over the East Coast Main Line.
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Hogwarts
Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, shortened to Hogwarts, is a fictional British school of magic for students aged eleven to eighteen, and is the primary setting for the first six books in J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series.
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Hornsey EMU depot and former steam locomotive shed
The area around Hornsey railway station in Hornsey (London Borough of Haringey) has been the site of several railway maintenance facilities from the mid 19th century onwards.
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Horsham railway station
Horsham railway station serves the town of Horsham in West Sussex, England.
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Hull Paragon Interchange
Hull Paragon Interchange is an integrated rail and bus station in the city centre of Kingston upon Hull, England.
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Hull Trains
Hull Trains is an open access operator in England owned by FirstGroup.
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Huntingdon railway station
Huntingdon Railway Station serves the town of Huntingdon in Cambridgeshire, England.
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Immingham
Immingham is a town, civil parish and ward in the North East Lincolnshire unitary authority of England.
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Inter-city rail
Inter-city rail services are express passenger train services that cover longer distances than commuter or regional trains.
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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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Inverness
Inverness (from the Inbhir Nis, meaning "Mouth of the River Ness", Inerness) is a city in the Scottish Highlands.
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Inverness railway station
Inverness railway station is the railway station serving the Scottish city of Inverness.
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Jaguar XK120
The Jaguar XK120 is a sports car manufactured by Jaguar between 1948 and 1954.
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King Edward VII Bridge
The King Edward VII Bridge is a railway bridge spanning the River Tyne between Newcastle upon Tyne and Gateshead, in North East England.
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King's Cross railway accident
The King's Cross railway accident occurred on 4 February 1945, at London King's Cross railway station on the East Coast Main Line of the London & North Eastern Railway.
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King's Lynn railway station
King's Lynn railway station is the northern terminus of the Fen line in the east of England, serving the town of King's Lynn, Norfolk.
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Kingston upon Hull
Kingston upon Hull, usually abbreviated to Hull, is a city and unitary authority in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England.
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Knebworth railway station
Knebworth railway station serves the village of Knebworth in Hertfordshire, England.
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Knottingley
Knottingley is a town within the metropolitan borough of the City of Wakefield in West Yorkshire, England on the River Aire and the old A1 road before it was bypassed as the A1(M).
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Labour Party (UK)
The Labour Party is a centre-left political party in the United Kingdom.
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Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway
The Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway (L&YR) was a major British railway company before the 1923 Grouping.
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Land Rover Defender
The Land Rover Defender (initially called the Land Rover Ninety and Land Rover One Ten) is a British four-wheel drive off-road vehicle developed in the 1980s from the original Land Rover Series which was launched at the Amsterdam Motor Show in April 1948.
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Leamside line
The Leamside line (originally part of the Durham Junction Railway) is a railway line in the North East of England, branching off from the main East Coast Main Line (ECML) at Tursdale in County Durham, and continuing north through Washington and Wardley, finally joining the Newcastle upon Tyne to Sunderland line at Pelaw.
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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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Leeds railway station
Leeds railway station (also known as Leeds City railway station) is the mainline railway station serving the city centre of Leeds in West Yorkshire, England.
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Leicester railway station
Leicester railway station (formerly Leicester London Road) serves the city of Leicester in Leicestershire, England.
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Letchworth Garden City railway station
Letchworth Garden City station serves the town of Letchworth in Hertfordshire, England.
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Level junction
A level junction (or in the United Kingdom a flat crossing) is a railway junction that has a track configuration in which merging or crossing railroad lines provide track connections with each other that require trains to cross over in front of opposing traffic at grade (i.e. on the level).
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Lincoln Central railway station
Lincoln Central railway station serves the city of Lincoln in Lincolnshire, England.
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Lincolnshire
Lincolnshire (abbreviated Lincs) is a county in east central England.
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Listed building
A listed building, or listed structure, is one that has been placed on one of the four statutory lists maintained by Historic England in England, Historic Environment Scotland in Scotland, Cadw in Wales, and the Northern Ireland Environment Agency in Northern Ireland.
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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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LNER Class A3 4472 Flying Scotsman
LNER Class A3 4472 Flying Scotsman is a Pacific steam locomotive built in 1923 for the London and North Eastern Railway (LNER) at Doncaster Works to a design of Nigel Gresley.
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LNER Class A4 4468 Mallard
London and North Eastern Railway locomotive numbered 4468 Mallard is a Class A4 4-6-2 Pacific steam locomotive built at Doncaster, England in 1938.
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LNER Peppercorn Class A1 60163 Tornado
60163 Tornado is a main line coal-fired steam locomotive built in Darlington, County Durham, England.
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London
London is the capital and most populous city of England and the United Kingdom.
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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 Bridge station
London Bridge is a central London railway terminus and connected London Underground station in Southwark, south-east London.
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London King's Cross railway station
King's Cross railway station, also known as London King's Cross, is a Central London railway terminus on the northern edge of the city.
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London North Eastern Railway
London North Eastern Railway (LNER) is a British train operating company that operates the InterCity East Coast franchise.
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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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M62 motorway
The M62 is a west–east trans-Pennine motorway in Northern England, connecting Liverpool and Hull via Manchester and Leeds; of the route is shared with the M60 orbital motorway around Manchester.
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Manchester Airport station
Manchester Airport station is a railway and tram station at Manchester Airport, England which opened at the same time as the second air terminal in 1993.
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Marshall Meadows Bay
Marshall Meadows Bay is the northernmost point of England.
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Middlesbrough railway station
Middlesbrough railway station serves the large town of Middlesbrough in North Yorkshire, England and is managed by TransPennine Express.
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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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Mile
The mile is an English unit of length of linear measure equal to 5,280 feet, or 1,760 yards, and standardised as exactly 1,609.344 metres by international agreement in 1959.
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Moorgate station
Moorgate is a central London railway terminus and connected London Underground station on Moorgate in the City of London.
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Morpeth railway station
Morpeth railway station is on the East Coast Main Line in the United Kingdom, serving the town of Morpeth, Northumberland.
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MTU Friedrichshafen
MTU Friedrichshafen GmbH is a manufacturer of commercial internal combustion engines founded by Wilhelm Maybach and his son Karl Maybach in 1909.
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Napier Deltic
The Napier Deltic engine is a British opposed-piston valveless, supercharged uniflow scavenged, two-stroke Diesel engine used in marine and locomotive applications, designed and produced by D. Napier & Son.
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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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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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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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Neville Hill TMD
Neville Hill is a railway Train Maintenance Depot in Osmondthorpe, Leeds, England on the Leeds to Selby Line.
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New Barnet railway station
New Barnet railway station is in the London Borough of Barnet in north London, England.
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New Southgate railway station
New Southgate railway station is on the boundary of the London Borough of Barnet and the London Borough of Enfield in north London, and is in Travelcard Zone 4.
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Newark North Gate railway station
| Newark North Gate railway station is on the East Coast Main Line in the United Kingdom, serving the town of Newark-on-Trent, Nottinghamshire.
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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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Nicholas Ridley, Baron Ridley of Liddesdale
Nicholas Ridley, Baron Ridley of Liddesdale, PC (17 February 1929 – 4 March 1993) was a British Conservative politician and government minister.
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Nigel Gresley
Sir Herbert Nigel Gresley (19 June 1876 – 5 April 1941) was one of Britain's most famous steam locomotive engineers, who rose to become Chief Mechanical Engineer (CME) of the London and North Eastern Railway (LNER).
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North Berwick Line
The North Berwick Line is a railway line linking Edinburgh with North Berwick in Scotland.
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North British Railway
The North British Railway was a British railway company, based in Edinburgh, Scotland.
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North Clyde Line
The North Clyde Line (defined by Network Rail as the Glasgow North Electric Suburban line) is a suburban railway in West Central Scotland.
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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 Eastern Railway (United Kingdom)
The North Eastern Railway (NER) was an English railway company.
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Northallerton
Northallerton is a market town and civil parish in the Hambleton district of North Yorkshire, England.
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Northallerton railway station
Northallerton railway station is on the East Coast Main Line in the United Kingdom, serving the town of Northallerton, North Yorkshire.
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Northern (train operating company)
Northern, the trading name of Arriva Rail North, is a train operating company in Northern England.
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Northern City Line
The Northern City Line is a commuter line in England, which runs from London Moorgate to Finsbury Park in London with services running beyond.
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Norwich railway station
Norwich railway station (formerly Norwich Thorpe) is the eastern terminus of the Great Eastern Main Line in the East of England, serving the city of Norwich, Norfolk.
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Nottingham
Nottingham is a city and unitary authority area in Nottinghamshire, England, north of London, in the East Midlands.
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Nottingham–Lincoln line
The Nottingham–Lincoln line is a railway line in central England, running north-east from Nottingham to Lincoln.
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Oakleigh Park railway station
Oakleigh Park railway station is in Oakleigh Park in the London Borough of Barnet in north London, England.
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Opening credits
In a motion picture, television program or video game, the opening credits or opening titles are shown at the very beginning and list the most important members of the production.
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Ouseburn Viaduct
Ouseburn Viaduct carries the East Coast Main Line over the Ouseburn Valley through the East End of Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
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Overhead line
An overhead line or overhead wire is used to transmit electrical energy to trams, trolleybuses or trains.
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Passenger car (rail)
A passenger car (known as a coach or carriage in the UK, and also known as a bogie in India) is a piece of railway rolling stock that is designed to carry passengers.
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Passenger rail terminology
Various terms are used for passenger rail lines and equipment-the usage of these terms differs substantially between areas.
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Pegswood railway station
Pegswood railway station is on the East Coast Main Line in the United Kingdom, serving the village of Pegswood, Northumberland.
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Penmanshiel Tunnel
Penmanshiel Tunnel is a now-disused railway tunnel near Grantshouse, Berwickshire, in the Scottish Borders region of Scotland.
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Peterborough
Peterborough is a cathedral city in Cambridgeshire, England, with a population of 183,631 in 2011.
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Peterborough railway station
Peterborough railway station serves the city of Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, England.
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Potters Bar rail accidents
There have been four railway accidents in Potters Bar, Hertfordshire, England, one in 1898, one in 1899, one in 1946 and the latest in 2002.
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Preston railway station
Preston railway station in Preston, Lancashire, England, is a major station on the West Coast Main Line, roughly half-way between London Euston and Glasgow Central (206 miles from London Euston, 194 miles from Glasgow Central).
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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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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 operating centre
A rail operating centre (ROC) is a building that houses all signallers, signalling equipment, ancillaries and operators for a specific region or route on the United Kingdom's main rail network.
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Rail transport
Rail transport is a means of transferring of passengers and goods on wheeled vehicles running on rails, also known as tracks.
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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 electrification system
A railway electrification system supplies electric power to railway trains and trams without an on-board prime mover or local fuel supply.
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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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Regional Eurostar
Regional Eurostar was the name given to plans to operate Eurostar train services from Paris and Brussels to locations in the United Kingdom beyond London.
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Retford railway station
Retford railway station is on the East Coast Main Line in the United Kingdom, serving the town of Retford, Nottinghamshire.
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River Aire
The River Aire is a major river in Yorkshire, England, in length.
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River Aln
The River Aln runs through the county of Northumberland in England.
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River Blyth, Northumberland
The River Blyth flows eastwards through southern Northumberland into the North Sea at the town of Blyth.
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River Coquet
The River Coquet runs through the county of Northumberland, England, discharging into the North Sea on the east coast of England at Amble.
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River Great Ouse
The River Great Ouse is a river in the United Kingdom, the longest of several British rivers called "Ouse".
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River Idle
The River Idle is a river in Nottinghamshire, England.
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River Nene
The River Nene (or: see below) is a river in the east of England that rises from three sources in Northamptonshire.
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River Skerne
The River Skerne is a tributary of the River Tees.
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River Tees
The River Tees is in northern England.
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River Wansbeck
The River Wansbeck runs through the county of Northumberland, England.
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River Wear
The River Wear in North East England rises in the Pennines and flows eastwards, mostly through County Durham to the North Sea in the City of Sunderland.
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River Wharfe
The River Wharfe is a river in Yorkshire, England.
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Royal Border Bridge
Royal Border Bridge spans the River Tweed between Berwick-upon-Tweed and Tweedmouth in Northumberland, England.
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Saltburn railway station
Saltburn railway station serves the town of Saltburn-by-the-Sea in the borough of Redcar and Cleveland and the ceremonial county of North Yorkshire, England.
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Scarborough railway station
Scarborough railway station, formerly Scarborough Central, is a Grade II listed station serving the seaside town of Scarborough, North Yorkshire.
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Scotland
Scotland (Alba) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom and covers the northern third of the island of Great Britain.
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Scottish Borders
The Scottish Borders (The Mairches, "The Marches"; Scottish Gaelic: Crìochan na h-Alba) is one of 32 council areas of Scotland.
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Secretary of State for Transport
Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Transport is the member of the cabinet responsible for the British Department for Transport.
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Selby
Selby is a town and civil parish in North Yorkshire, England.
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Selby Canal
The Selby Canal is a canal with 2 locks which bypasses the lower reaches of the River Aire in Yorkshire, England, from the village of West Haddlesey to the town of Selby where it joins the River Ouse.
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Selby Diversion
The Selby Diversion is a mainline railway in the United Kingdom, built as a new part of the East Coast Main Line (ECML) to avoid an area of potential subsidence over the newly discovered Selby Coalfield. The line opened in 1983, running roughly northwest from a junction on the ECML near Temple Hirst, south of Selby, to a junction near Church Fenton, south of York. As of 2015, the line is used primarily by long-distance north-south services, as well as some freight trains. Most freight trains have been diverted from the line by the opening of the North Doncaster Chord Project which was completed in June 2014.
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Serco
Serco Group plc is a provider of public services with headquarters based in Hook, Hampshire.
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Shaftholme
Shaftholme is a small hamlet in South Yorkshire, England, in the parish of Arksey that is located half a mile north of Bentley and two miles north of Doncaster.
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Sheffield station
Sheffield station, formerly Pond Street and later Sheffield Midland, is a combined railway station and tram stop in Sheffield, England, and the busiest station in South Yorkshire.
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Shotts Line
The Shotts Line is a suburban railway line linking and via in Scotland.
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Signal passed at danger
A signal passed at danger (SPAD) in railway terminology of many countries, including Australia and the UK (where it is also known as either a SPAD or SPAR), occurs when a train passes a stop signal without authority to do so.
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Skegness
Skegness is a seaside town and civil parish in the East Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England, on the Lincolnshire coast of the North Sea, east of Lincoln.
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SNC-Lavalin Rail & Transit
SNC-Lavalin Rail & Transit (Interfleet Technology until 2015) is an international rail consultancy company headquartered in Derby, England.
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South East England
South East England is the most populous of the nine official regions of England at the first level of NUTS for statistical purposes.
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South Yorkshire
South Yorkshire is a metropolitan county in England.
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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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Stevenage railway station
Stevenage railway station serves the town of Stevenage in Hertfordshire, England.
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Sunderland station
Sunderland station is a National Rail and Tyne & Wear Metro station in the city centre of Sunderland, North East England.
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Thameslink
Thameslink is a 24 hour, 115-station main-line route in the British railway system running from,, and via central London to Sutton,, and.
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Thameslink and Great Northern
Thameslink and Great Northern are the brand names used by the Govia Thameslink Railway train operating company on the Thameslink and Great Northern routes of the Thameslink, Southern and Great Northern franchise, previously operated by First Capital Connect.
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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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The Ladykillers
The Ladykillers is a 1955 British black comedy crime film directed by Alexander Mackendrick for Ealing Studios.
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The Railway Magazine
The Railway Magazine is a monthly British railway magazine, aimed at the railway enthusiast market, that has been published in London since July 1897.
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Thirsk rail crash (1892)
The Thirsk rail crash happened at Manor House signal box on 2 November 1892, on the North Eastern Railway about north of Thirsk railway station in the North Riding of Yorkshire, England.
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Thirsk rail crash (1967)
The Thirsk rail crash occurred on 31 July 1967 at Thirsk, Yorkshire, England on the British Rail East Coast Main Line.
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Thirsk railway station
Thirsk railway station is on the East Coast Main Line in the United Kingdom, serving the town of Thirsk, North Yorkshire.
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Top Gear (2002 TV series)
Top Gear is a British motoring magazine, factual television series, conceived by Jeremy Clarkson and Andy Wilman, launched on 20 October 2002, and broadcast in the United Kingdom on BBC Two.
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Top Gear Race to the North
The Top Gear Race to the North was a three-way race between a Jaguar XK120 car, a Vincent Black Shadow motorbike, and railway locomotive 60163 ''Tornado'' – a brand new mainline steam engine completed in Britain in 2008.
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Traffic bottleneck
A traffic bottleneck is a localized disruption of vehicular traffic on a street, road, or highway.
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TransPennine Express
TransPennine Express (legally known as First TransPennine Express Limited) First TransPennine Express Limited is a British train operating company owned by FirstGroup operating the TransPennine Express franchise.
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Transport Act 1947
The Transport Act 1947 (c. 49) is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
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Trent Valley line
The Trent Valley line is a railway line between Rugby and Stafford in England, forming part of the West Coast Main Line.
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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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University of California, Berkeley
The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public research university in Berkeley, California.
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Vincent Black Shadow
The Vincent Black Shadow is a standard motorcycle produced by Vincent H·R·D at their factory in Stevenage, Hertfordshire, England.
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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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Virgin Trains East Coast
Virgin Trains East Coast (legal name East Coast Main Line Company Limited) was a train operating company in the United Kingdom that operated the InterCity East Coast franchise on the East Coast Main Line between London, Yorkshire, the North East and Scotland.
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Wakefield line
The Wakefield line is a railway line and service in the West Yorkshire Metro and South Yorkshire Passenger Transport Executive areas of northern England.
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Welwyn Garden City rail crashes
There have been two rail crashes near Welwyn Garden City railway station in Hertfordshire, England, one in 1935 and another less serious accident in 1957.
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Welwyn Garden City railway station
Welwyn Garden City railway station serves the town of Welwyn Garden City in Hertfordshire, England.
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Welwyn North railway station
Welwyn North railway station serves the villages of Digswell and Welwyn in Hertfordshire, England.
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Welwyn Tunnel rail crash
The Welwyn Tunnel rail crash took place in Welwyn North Tunnel, north of Welwyn (now Welwyn North) station on the Great Northern Railway, on 9 June 1866.
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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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Yarm railway station
Yarm railway station serves the town of Yarm in the borough of Stockton-on-Tees and ceremonial county of North Yorkshire, England.
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York
York is a historic walled city at the confluence of the rivers Ouse and Foss in North Yorkshire, England.
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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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Yorkshire
Yorkshire (abbreviated Yorks), formally known as the County of York, is a historic county of Northern England and the largest in the United Kingdom.
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Yorkshire and the Humber
Yorkshire and the Humber is one of nine official regions of England at the first level of NUTS for statistical purposes.
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25 kV AC railway electrification
25 kV alternating current electrification is commonly used in railway electrification systems worldwide, especially for high-speed rail.
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4-6-2
Under the Whyte notation for the classification of steam locomotives, represents the wheel arrangement of four leading wheels on two axles, six powered and coupled driving wheels on three axles and two trailing wheels on one axle.
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Redirects here:
ECML, East Coast Main Line (ECML), East Coast Mainline, East Coast main line, East Coast route, East coast main line, Grantham–Peterborough line, Network Rail route SC 147, Stoke Tunnel (Lincolnshire), The East Coast Main Line, The East Coast Main Line (ECML).
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Coast_Main_Line
