Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The detail found in Working Timetables includes the timings at every major station, junction, or other significant location along the train's journey (including additional minutes inserted to allow for such factors as engineering work or particular train performance characteristics), [2] which platforms are used at certain stations, and line codes where there is a choice of running line.
This changed in 1974, when British Rail launched their first nationwide timetable, costing 50p (roughly £10 in 2020) and running to 1,350 pages. [1] The British Rail Passenger Timetable continued to be published annually until 1986, at which point it was split into summer and winter issues.
Until 1974 each region of British Rail published its own timetable. The first Great Britain timetable started on 4 May 1974. [13] Prior to that the only joint publication between regions had been a publication of 30 principal passenger services from 1962, following the demise of Bradshaw in 1961. [14]
Caledonian Sleeper (night train) InterCity West Coast / ScotRail (British Rail) / ScotRail (National Express) / First ScotRail / Caledonian Sleeper: London Euston – Edinburgh Waverley London Euston – Aberdeen London Euston – Fort William London Euston – Glasgow Central London Euston – Inverness: 1996 – present Cambrian Coast Express ...
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.
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.
Special Working Arrangement. Special arrangement is a condition where a specific location requires there to be an operational variance to the Rulebook, or an addition to it. This section details a route, locations where the arrangement begins and ends, the type of train this applies to, the line affected, and details of the operation.
The ABC Rail Guide, first published in 1853 as The ABC or Alphabetical Railway Guide, was a monthly railway timetable guide to the United Kingdom that was organised on an alphabetical basis that made it easier to use than its competitor Bradshaw's Guide which had a reputation for difficulty.