• British Railways (BR), which from 1965 traded as British Rail, was a state-owned company that operated most rail transport in Great Britain from 1948...
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  • The privatisation of British Rail was the process by which ownership and operation of the railways of Great Britain passed from government control into...
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    The impact of the privatisation of British Rail has been the subject of much debate, with the stated benefits including improved customer service, and...
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    to British and other European railway companies. In Continental Europe it is marketed as the EMD Class 66 (JT42CWR). On the privatisation of British Rail's...
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    Train (HST) is a diesel-powered high-speed passenger train built by British Rail Engineering Limited between 1975 and 1982. A total of 95 sets were produced...
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    multiple units that have operated on Great Britain's railway network, since Nationalisation in 1948. British Rail used several numbering schemes for classifying...
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    British Rail Class 37 is a diesel-electric locomotive. Also known as the English Electric Type 3, the class was ordered as part of the British Rail modernisation...
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    The British Rail Class 800, branded as the Intercity Express Train (IET) by Great Western Railway (GWR) and Azuma by London North Eastern Railway (LNER)...
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  • Great British Railways (GBR) is a planned state-owned company that is to oversee rail transport in Great Britain except for Transport for London, Merseytravel...
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    Motorail was the brand name for British Rail's long-distance services that carried passengers and their cars. During its latter years of operation, it...
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    The British Rail Class 805 Evero is a type of bi-mode multiple unit built by Hitachi Rail for Avanti West Coast. Based on the Hitachi A-train design,...
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    The British Rail Double Arrow is a logo that was created for British Rail (BR), the then state-owned operator of Britain's railway network, in 1965. It...
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    738 billion journeys on the National Rail network, making the British network the fifth most used in the world (Great Britain ranks 23rd in world population)...
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    The British Rail Class 150 Sprinter is a class of diesel multiple-unit passenger trains, developed and built by British Rail Engineering Limited at York...
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    Pacer was the operational name of the British Rail Classes 140, 141, 142, 143 and 144 diesel multiple unit railbuses built between 1980 and 1987. They...
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    The British Rail Class 55, also known as a Deltic, or English Electric Type 5, is a class of diesel locomotive built in 1961 and 1962 by English Electric...
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    In British popular culture, the British Rail sandwiches were the sandwiches sold for consumption on passenger trains of the former British Rail (BR), during...
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  • passenger services previously provided by the British Railways Board, from 1965 using the brand name British Rail. Northern Ireland, which is bordered by the...
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    multiple unit trains in use on the British railway system. They were built in the 1980s and early-1990s by British Rail Engineering Limited (BREL), Metro-Cammell...
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  • Wealdstone Station in the London Midland Region, British Railways (PDF). Ministry of Transport, Rail Accident Investigation Branch. p. 1. Currie 1971...
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    The British Rail Class 373, known in France as the TGV TMST and branded by Eurostar as the Eurostar e300, is a French designed and Anglo-French built electric...
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    The British Rail Class 60 is a class of Co-Co heavy freight diesel-electric locomotives built by Brush Traction. They are nicknamed Tugs by rail enthusiasts...
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    The British Rail Class 170 Turbostar is a British diesel multiple unit (DMU) passenger train designed and built by Adtranz, and later by Bombardier Transportation...
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    British Rail produced a variety of railbuses, both as a means of acquiring new rolling stock cheaply, and to provide economical services on lightly used...
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  • Diesel Locomotives of British Rail. David & Charles. pp. 76–81. ISBN 0715375148. Marsden, Colin J.; Fenn, Graham B. (1988). British Rail Main Line Diesel Locomotives...
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    Traction, Loughborough, as a technology demonstrator for potential future British Rail and export orders. The locomotive number is a combination of the initials...
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    British Rail Class 802 is a type of high-speed bi-mode multiple-unit passenger train designed and produced by the Japanese manufacturer Hitachi Rail....
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    The British Rail Class 319 is an electric multiple unit passenger train built by British Rail Engineering Limited's Holgate Road carriage works for use...
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    The British Rail Class 156 Super Sprinter is a diesel multiple unit passenger train. A total of 114 sets were built between 1987 and 1989 for British Rail...
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    The British Rail Class 158 Express Sprinter is a diesel multiple unit (DMU) passenger train. It is a member of the Sprinter series of regional trains,...
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