• British Caledonian (BCal) came into being in November 1970 when the Scottish charter airline Caledonian Airways, at the time Britain's second-largest,...
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  • British Caledonian (BCal) was a private independent airline in the United Kingdom that operated from 1970 until it merged with British Airways in 1988...
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  • (BOAC) in the early 1970s. British Airtours adopted the Caledonian Airways name when the newly British Airways completed the acquisition of the rival British...
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    British airline British Caledonian (BCal) suffered a series of major setbacks in the 1980s as a result of several geopolitical events that occurred during...
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    under the interim name Caledonian//BUA, the merged entity adopted the British Caledonian name as of September 1971. During the 1970s and '80s, British Caledonian...
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    Caledonia (category Terminology of the British Isles)
    Glasgow Caledonian University, ferry operator Caledonian MacBrayne, and the now-defunct British Caledonian airline and Caledonian Railway. The Caledonian Sleeper...
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    by British Railways in 1958, it ran railtours and enthusiast specials until the end of steam in Scotland. No. 123 was designed by the Caledonian Railway's...
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    In December 1987, following substantial losses, the private, British independent airline British Caledonian (BCal) was taken over by newly privatised...
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    Glasgow Caledonian University (Scottish Gaelic: Oilthigh Chailleannach Ghlaschu, IPA: [ˈɔlhɪj ˈxaʎan̪ˠəx ˈɣl̪ˠas̪əxu]), informally GCU, Caledonian or Caley...
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  • Group Great British Railways Great British Energy Northern Ireland Water Translink Caledonian Maritime Assets David MacBrayne Caledonian MacBrayne Ferguson...
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    The British Rail Class 87 is a type of electric locomotive designed and built by British Rail Engineering Limited (BREL) between 1973 and 1975. A total...
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    The Caledonian Railway main line in Scotland connected Glasgow and Edinburgh with Carlisle, via Carstairs and Beattock. It was opened in 1847 by the Caledonian...
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    Kingdom in preference to Britain and British (UK business, UK foreign policy, ambassador and high commissioner). But British embassy, not UK embassy." The Isle...
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  • Bunillidh Thistle F.C. (category North Caledonian Football League teams)
    Bunillidh Thistle joined the North Caledonian League in the early 1970s, where they competed until their withdrawal at the end of the 2008–09 season. They...
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    performed by British Rail (BR) during the 1970s and 1980s. Several events, including the electrification of the East Coast Main Line (ECML) and the cancelled...
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    Glasgow South Western Line (category Use British English from January 2018)
    1923 the line via Dumfries was in competition with the North British Railway and Caledonian Railway as one of the mainlines into Scotland. With the passing...
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    variant of the Virgin livery using Caledonian Railway blue in place of the standard red, to celebrate the company's 150th Anniversary. In 2002, no. 86233...
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    New Caledonian Wharf is a luxury gated community in the Rotherhithe area of London on the River Thames. The site was originally part of the Surrey Docks...
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  • and Australia, some of the British terms listed are used, although another usage is often preferred. Words with specific British English meanings that...
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    ISSN 1753-2469. OCLC 226087101. Wikimedia Commons has media related to British Rail Class 26. Caledonian Railway Diesel Group. 6LDA website with photos, history and...
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  • McEwan's (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the ODNB)
    the draught beers (except Best Scotch) were brewed at the Caledonian Brewery in Edinburgh, whilst the canned and bottled beers were produced at the Eagle...
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    in Britain in the later 4th century, which included the participation of the Gaelic Scoti and the Caledonians, who were then known as Picts by the Romans...
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    Edinburgh Princes Street railway station (category Former Caledonian Railway stations)
    its hotel remains, but it is no longer in railway ownership. In April 1847, the foundation stone for the Caledonian Railway company's Edinburgh station was...
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  • Princes Street (category Streets in Edinburgh)
    hotels at either end: the Caledonian Hotel to the west, and North British Hotel to the east. In between were the Royal British Hotel, Old Waverley Hotel...
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  • Fort William F.C. (category Former North Caledonian Football League teams)
    They play in the North Caledonian Football League having been relegated from the 2021–22 Highland Football League. The club was founded in 1974 by then...
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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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    North Clyde Line (category Use British English from January 2017)
    the Caledonian). At the time of the Grouping in 1923, the North British Railway became part of the London and North Eastern Railway (LNER), while the Caledonian...
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    Buchanan Street railway station (category Former Caledonian Railway stations)
    were given over to the construction of the new Glasgow College of Technology (now Glasgow Caledonian University) in 1971, whilst British Rail itself also...
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    when the BTC was abolished the name of the force was amended to the British Transport Police. In the 1960s and 1970s BTP officers led by Detective Sergeant...
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    service in British Rail's Eastern Region. There was no prototype. British Railways placed an order for forty-two Class 37 locomotives in January 1959. The first...
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