The British Rail Mark 4 is a class of passenger carriages built for use in InterCity 225 sets on the East Coast Main Line between King's Cross, Leeds...
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Mark 2 family of railway carriages are British Rail's second design of carriages. They were built by British Rail workshops (from 1969 British Rail Engineering...
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The British Rail Mark 3 is a type of passenger carriage developed in response to growing competition from airlines and the car in the 1970s. A variant...
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British Rail Mark 1 is the family designation for the first standardised designs of railway carriages built by British Railways (BR) from 1951 until 1974...
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service from Dublin to Cork. These carriages have no connection to the British Rail Mark 4. Along with the occasional Cravens stocked train[further explanation...
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The British Rail Mark 5A is a type of railway vehicle in use in the UK. 52 standard carriages and 14 driving trailers were built by Spanish manufacturer...
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The British Rail Mark 5 is the designation given to locomotive-hauled rail carriages built by Spanish manufacturer CAF for operation with Caledonian Sleeper...
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British Rail Engineering Limited (BREL) was the rolling stock manufacturing and maintenance subsidiary of British Rail. It was established on 1 January...
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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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unveil our latest class 66 newly renamed 'British Rail 1948-1997'. The loco marks the 70th anniversary of British Railways and is currently undergoing a...
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During the 2000s, the British train operating company Direct Rail Services (DRS) recognised that its small fleet of British Rail Class 20 diesel locomotives...
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the British Mark I tank, 1917 Bristol Blenheim Mk.IV, light bomber in Royal Air Force service before and during World War II British Rail Mark 4, passenger...
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The British Rail Class 323 is a class of electric multiple unit (EMU) passenger train built by Hunslet Transportation Projects and Holec. All 43 units...
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introduced by British Rail in 1966 for its long-haul express passenger services (see British Rail brand names for a full history). In 1982, the British Railways...
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The British Rail Mark 5 is the designation given to the planned passenger rolling stock for the InterCity 250 project, a plan to improve speeds on the...
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The British Rail Class 411 (4CEP) electric multiple units were built at Eastleigh works from 1956–63 for the newly electrified main lines in Kent. These...
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the prototype High Speed Train (HST) with Mark 3 carriages. Two power cars were built in 1972 by British Rail Engineering Limited's Crewe Works, numbered...
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Great Britain British electric multiple units British railcars and diesel multiple units History by era History of rail transport in Great Britain to 1830...
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The British Rail Class 90 is a type of electric locomotive. They were built for mixed-traffic duties, operating from 25 kV AC overhead lines and producing...
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1985–87. They were the first of several classes of British Rail EMU to be based on the all-steel Mark 3 bodyshell, departing from the PEP-aluminium design...
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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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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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InterCity 125 (redirect from British Rail class 253)
eight Mark 3 coaches. The name is derived from its top operational speed of 125 mph (201 km/h). At times, the sets have been classified as British Rail Classes...
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electrification of the East Coast Main Line was under way, British Rail realised that the new Mark 4 carriages for the Class 89 and Class 91 locomotives were...
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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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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 150 Sprinter is a class of diesel-hydraulic multiple unit passenger trains, developed and built by British Rail Engineering Limited...
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The British Rail Class 897 is a type of tri-mode electro-diesel multiple unit to be manufactured by CAF for London North Eastern Railway. Ten ten-car units...
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versions of British Rail's BT22 Air Suspension bogie, and were air-braked. The Irish Mark 3 coaches were similar, but not identical, to their British counterparts...
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The British Rail Class 390 Pendolino is a type of electric high-speed passenger train operated by Avanti West Coast in the United Kingdom, leased from...
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