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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 Corporate Identity Manual in the sixties.
Michael Cobb (10 September 1916 – 23 June 2010) was a British Army officer, cartographer, and railway historian who in 2003 [1] published the monumental work The Railways of Great Britain: A Historical Atlas, which set out to map and record every railway station and line in existence in Britain between 1807 and 1994.
Great North of Scotland Railway: 1950 Whitehurst Halt: GWR: 1960 Whiteinch Riverside: Caledonian Railway: 1964 Whiteinch Victoria Park: North British Railway: 1951 Whitemill: Llanelly Railway: 1870 Whiterigg: North British Railway: 1930 Whithorn: Portpatrick and Wigtownshire Joint Railway: 1950 Whitland: Pembroke and Tenby Railway: 1869 Whitley ...
Pages in category "Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1950" The following 112 pages are in this category, out of 112 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Here, the vast majority of the railway system standardised on the standard gauge of 4 ft 8 + 1 ⁄ 2 in (1,435 mm). History of rail transport in Ireland discusses the history of rail transport on the island of Ireland, comprising the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland. Here a system using a broad gauge of 5 ft 3 in (1,600 mm) developed.
British Railway History. An outline from the accession of William IV to the Nationalisation of Railways, 1830–1876 (vol 1. G. Allen and Unwin, 1954) Ellis, Cuthbert Hamilton. British Railway History: An Outline from the Accession of William IV to the Nationalization of Railways, 1877–1947. Vol. 2 (G. Allen and Unwin, 1959); see online review.
British Railways (BR), which from 1965 traded as British Rail, was a state-owned company that operated most rail transport in Great Britain from 1948 to 1997. Originally a trading brand of the Railway Executive of the British Transport Commission, it became an independent statutory corporation in January 1963, when it was formally renamed the British Railways Board.
The first implementation of high-speed rail up to 186 mph in regular passenger service in Great Britain was the Channel Tunnel Rail Link (now known as High Speed 1), when its first phase opened in 2003 linking the British end of the Channel Tunnel at Folkestone with Fawkham Junction in Kent.