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The major engineering works of BR were split-off into a separate company, British Rail Engineering Limited, in 1970. This was subsequently split further, becoming British Rail Maintenance Limited, whose ownership was retained by British Rail; and British Rail Engineering (1988) Limited, which was prepared for privatisation.
London King's Cross railway station to Stevenage in Hertfordshire and Peterborough in Cambridgeshire; Fenchurch Street railway station to Basildon (from 1974), Southend and Shoeburyness. London Marylebone to Leicester, Nottingham and Sheffield on the Great Central Main Line (transferred to the London Midland Region in 1950)
North British Railway: 1950 Thornley: North Eastern Railway: 1952 Thornton (Stag and Castle Inn) Leicester and Swannington Railway: 1842 Thornton (West Yorkshire) GNR: 1955 Thornton Curtis: Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway: 1848 Thornton Dale: North Eastern Railway: 1950 Thornton Junction: North British Railway: 1969 Thornton Lane ...
British Rail built a fleet of electric units to operate Bournemouth services from Waterloo in the 1980s, with Mark 3 bodies and plug doors. These Class 442 (5-WES) units later transferred to the Brighton Main Line in 2008 on Gatwick Express services from Victoria, run by the Southern franchise, before returning to South Western Railway in 2019.
Stirling and Dunfermline Railway: North British Railway (LNER) Stirling to Dunfermline via Alloa 5 October 1968 (to passengers) 1993 (to all traffic) The section between Stirling and Alloa re-opened to passenger traffic in 2008. St Boswells–Kelso line: North British Railway (LNER) St Boswells to Kelso 1964 (to passengers) 1968 (to freight)
Maryport and Carlisle Railway: 1950 Brayton Gates NER: 1904 Breadsall: GNR: 1953 Breamore: L&SWR: 1964 Brean Road Halt: GWR: 1955 Brechin: Caledonian Railway: 1952 Breck Road L&NWR: 1948 Brecon Free Street: Neath and Brecon Railway: 1962 Brecon (Mount Street) Mid Wales Railway: 1872 Brecon (Watton) Brecon and Merthyr Tydfil Junction Railway: 1871
High-speed inter-city rail (above 124 mph or 200 km/h) was first introduced in Great Britain in the 1970s by British Rail. BR had pursued two development projects in parallel, the development of a tilting train technology, the Advanced Passenger Train (APT), and development of a conventional high-speed diesel train, the High Speed Train (HST).