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Several highpoints and innovations did occur during this period. Throughout the 1920s and 1930s, the Southern Railway invested heavily into railway electrification; [41] by the end of 1929, the Southern operated over 277 + 1 ⁄ 2 route miles (446.6 km) of third rail electrified track and in that year ran 17.8 million electric train miles.
The Modernisation Plan called for the large-scale introduction of diesel locomotives: a total of 2,500 locomotives for mainline service to be procured in 10 years at a cost of £125 million (£3 billion in 2020), plus the replacement of much of the existing pre-war passenger rolling stock with over 5,000 diesel or electric multiple units or new ...
Banchory railway station on the Deeside Railway, Scotland, in 1961.The station closed in 1966. After growing rapidly in the 19th century during the Railway Mania, the British railway system reached its height in the years immediately before the First World War, with a network of 23,440 miles (37,720 km). [2]
History of the Great Western Railway Volume Two 1863-1921. Ian Allan. ISBN 0-7110-0412-9. Blakemore, Michael (1984). The Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway. Ian Allan. ISBN 0-7110-1401-9. Coates, Noel (1997). 150 Years of the Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway. Hawkshill Publishing. Gould, David (20 July 1987). The London & Birmingham Railway 150 ...
The Beeching cuts were a reduction in the size of the British railway network, along with a restructuring of British Rail, in the 1960s. Since the mid-1990s there has been significant growth in passenger numbers on the railways and renewed government interest in the role of rail in UK transport.
Million tonnes of rail freight moved in the UK from 1983 to 2021 (annual rolling average). There was a large decrease in coal carried in 1984–5 due to the miners' strike. [43] Billion tonne-kilometres of rail freight moved in the UK from 1983 to 2019 [44]
The first line to be built on the peninsula was the Naples–Portici line, in the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies, which was 7.640 km (4.747 mi) long and was inaugurated on 3 October 1839, nine years after the world's first "modern" inter-city railway, the Liverpool and Manchester Railway.