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    The Blue Pullmans were luxury trains used from 1960 to 1973 by British Rail. They were the first Pullman diesel multiple units, incorporating several novel...
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  • Blue Pullman was an express passenger service provided by British Rail. Blue Pullman may also refer to: British Rail Classes 251 and 261, a type of diesel-electric...
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  • into Blue Pullmans – Class 47s next". The Railway Magazine. No. 1257. January 2006. p. 78. "FM Rail launches Hertfordshire Railtour's Blue Pullman". Rail...
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    three cars were the first Pullmans to be painted in the now familiar umber and cream livery. Hitherto the Brighton Pullmans had been painted dark mahogany...
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  • Cotswold Rail acquired rights to the Blue Pullman service, setting up The Blue Pullman Train Co, using Blue Pullman-liveried coaches purchased following...
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    the trains revolutionised passenger rail schedules and standards. Blue Pullmans Train categories in Europe List of high-speed trains Inter-city rail...
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  • Today's Railways UK. No. 49. January 2006. p. 61. "FM turns VT Mk2s into Blue Pullmans - Class 47s next". The Railway Magazine. No. 1257. January 2006. p. 78...
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  • Charlie Jones and Michael Lee Blue Line (disambiguation) Blue Pullman (disambiguation), trainsets operated by British Railways Blue Train Races, a series of...
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    Blue Pullman is a 1960 short documentary film directed by James Ritchie, which follows the development, preparation and a journey from Manchester to London...
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    of the Pullmans were routed via the Styal Line thus precluding a Stockport station stop. For a while in the late 1970s, the Manchester Pullman was the...
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    the following companies: InterCity (Diesel/Electric Tours) Blue Pullman (Midland Pullman, HST) Saphos Trains (Steam Tours) Statesman Rail (Diesel Tours)...
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    Derby. In July 1960 the Midland Pullman was relaunched as a luxury all-first-class service using two new Blue Pullman six-car diesel-electric units, aimed...
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    EMU in Rail Blue calls at Harrow and Wealdstone A Class 416 EMU in British Rail blue/grey livery calls at Dalston Kingsland The Blue Pullman at Swansea...
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    Robert E. (November 23, 1968). "Rails Taking Over Sleeping Car Runs; Pullmans Moving Into Rails' Hands". New York Times. pp. 71, 77. Archived from the...
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    British Rail Class 403 (category Pullman Car Company (UK))
    Belle" (PDF). Coupe News (Journal of Pullman Car Services). No. 66. pp. 24–25. "Southern Electric Group: Preserved Pullmans". Archived from the original on...
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    (additions)". Today's Railways UK. No. 242. April 2022. p. 77. "LSL HST set for Pullman Blue Livery as new railtour announced". RailAdvent. 1 August 2020. Archived...
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    Railcars". Retrieved 19 June 2016. Heaps, Chris (1988). "End of the Blue Pullmans". BR Diary: 1968–1977. London: Ian Allan. pp. 66–67. ISBN 978-0-7110-1611-8...
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    century was produced by the company, which also designed and built the Blue Pullman for British Railways. The company was formed in 1863 as the Metropolitan...
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    Archived from the original on 12 December 2008. Retrieved 2 August 2009. "Blue Pullmans at East Ham Depot". 2006–2007. Archived from the original on 21 February...
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    several major railways and the Calumet Sag Channel, West Pullman was and remains a mostly blue collar community. Much of the heavy industry the area relied...
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    Sir Philip Nicholas Outram Pullman CBE FRSL (born 19 October 1946) is an English writer. His books include the fantasy trilogy His Dark Materials and...
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  • America and some other countries) is a young-adult fantasy novel by Philip Pullman, published in 1995 by Scholastic UK. Set in a parallel universe, it follows...
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    The Pullman Strike was two interrelated strikes in 1894 that shaped national labor policy in the United States during a period of deep economic depression...
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    on 12 June 1965. In 1960 the BR Western Region introduced an all-pullman Blue Pullman set running between Paddington and Bristol, and this was considered...
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  • Pullman and Northern Belle services) Vintage Trains West Coast Railways Locomotive Services Limited (Including Steam Dreams, InterCity, Blue Pullman,...
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  • coaches. In January 2007 The Great Briton luxury Pullman train set took over the operation of the Blue Pullman for Hertfordshire Rail Tours after FM Rail ceased...
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    experiments with diesel streamliner services in the United Kingdom were the Blue Pullman trains introduced in 1960 and withdrawn in 1973. These provided 90-mile-per-hour...
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    double-arrow symbol, a standard typeface named Rail Alphabet and the BR blue livery, which was applied to nearly all locomotives and rolling stock. The...
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    units, and diesel electric multiple units were introduced. In 1960 the Blue Pullman service was introduced using high-speed trainset consisting of coaches...
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    Birmingham Central Library Information about diesel multiple units and the Blue Pullman trains, built by Metro Cammell The Metropolitan Cammell Drawings Archive...
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