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The first combined railway timetable was produced by George Bradshaw in 1839. [2] His guide assembled timetables from the many private railway companies into one book. Bradshaw's continued to be published until 1961, with demand dwindling after the grouping of the railways in 1923, as each of the new "Big Four" companies published their own ...
The guide was first published in 1853 [2] by William Tweedie of 337 Strand, London, under the title The ABC or Alphabetical Railway Guide.It had the subtitle: How and when you can go from London to the different stations in Great Britain, and return; together with the fares, distances, population, and the cab fares from the different stations.
Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... Railway stations in Northern Ireland opened in the 1950s (1 C)
A copy of the 2002 edition of the National Routeing Guide. The railway network of Great Britain is operated with the aid of a number of documents, which have been sometimes termed "technical manuals", [1] because they are more detailed than the pocket-timetables which the public encounters every day.
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Others have taken a different view. In her book British Rail: The Nation's Railway, Tanya Jackson argues that the Modernisation Plan laid the foundations of the highly successful Inter-City operation as well as planting the seeds of modern industrial design in the railway organisation. This was to lead to British Rail producing its benchmark ...
Although Thomas Cook Group plc ceased publication in 2013, the Thomas Cook European Rail Timetable was revived by a new company in early 2014 as simply the European Rail Timetable. [1] [2] From 1981 to 2010, Cook also produced a similar bi-monthly Overseas volume covering the rest of the world, [3] and some of that content was moved into the ...
The Inter-City was a British named express passenger train operated by the Western Region of British Railways (WR) between London Paddington and Wolverhampton Low Level via Birmingham Snow Hill. [1] It connected England's first and second cities, London and Birmingham.