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The British Rail Passenger Timetable, later the National Rail Timetable and now the Electronic National Rail Timetable (eNRT), is a document containing the times of all passenger rail services in Great Britain. It was first published by British Rail in 1974. [1]
This article contains lists of named passenger trains in the United Kingdom. These are specific regular journeys identified by a special name in the timetable, not to be confused with the names of engines or individual physical train rakes. One-off charter and sporadic special trains are not included.
National Rail should not be confused with Network Rail.National Rail is a brand used to promote passenger railway services, and providing some harmonisation for passengers in ticketing, while Network Rail is the organisation which owns and manages most of the fixed assets of the railway network, including tracks, stations and signals. [1]
A public transport timetable (also timetable and North American English schedule) is a document setting out information on public transport service times. Both public timetables to assist passengers with planning a trip and internal timetables to inform employees exist.
Clock on The Exchange, Bristol, showing two minute hands, one for London time and one for Bristol time (GMT minus 11 minutes).. Railway time was the standardised time arrangement first applied by the Great Western Railway in England in November 1840, the first recorded occasion when different local mean times were synchronised and a single standard time applied.
As a tribute to Bradshaw, Middleton Press named its timetables the Bradshaw-Mitchell's Rail Times. A competing edition reproduced from Network Rail's artwork, is published by TSO, [14] This is a same-size reproduction of the Network Rail artwork, although the size is only about 70% in the Middleton Press versions to reduce the page count. A ...
The APT project was abandoned, but the HST design entered service as the British Rail Classes 253, 254 and 255 trains. The prototype HST, the Class 252 , reached a world speed record for diesel trains of 143.2 mph, while the main fleet entered service limited to a service speed of 125 mph, and were introduced progressively on main lines across ...
Railway lines in England and Wales, as of 2010. This is a list of railway lines in Great Britain that are currently in operation, split by country and region.. There are a limited number of main inter-regional lines, with all but one entering Greater London. [1]