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After Bradshaw's ceased printing in 1961 [4] (as it couldn't compete with the cheaper regional timetables), there was a gap of 13 years without a system-wide schedule. 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 ]
It closely resembles Network Rail's former timetable book, which ceased publication in 2007, but PDF timetable files are on its website. [12] It appears twice per year: In May, titled GB Rail Timetable Summer Edition lasting from May to December; In December, titled GB Rail Timetable Winter Edition lasting from December to May
Reading Blue Mountain and Northern 425 is a G-1 class 4-6-2 light "Pacific" type steam locomotive built by the Baldwin Locomotive Works for the Gulf, Mobile & Northern Railroad. After the GM&N was consolidated into the Gulf, Mobile & Ohio in 1940, the locomotive was renumbered No. 580 and served in passenger service before being retired in 1950.
At Wokingham, the line joins the west end of the North Downs Line leading into Reading, to terminate in platforms 4, 5 and 6. The line also sees some freight services and special charters, which use the connecting line at Reading to join the Great Western Main Line or the Chertsey Loop/Branch Line to connect to the South West Main Line.
Commonly called the Reading Railroad and logotyped as Reading Lines, the Reading Company was a railroad holding company for most of its existence, and a single railroad in its later years. It operated service as Reading Railway System and was a successor to the Philadelphia and Reading Railway Company , founded in 1833.
The British Rail Class 701 Arterio is a class of electric multiple unit passenger train built by Bombardier Transportation (now Alstom) at Derby Litchurch Lane Works.Built on the Aventra platform, they are operated by South Western Railway, and operate some services between Waterloo and Windsor.
Bradshaw's was a series of railway timetables and travel guide books published by W.J. Adams and later Henry Blacklock, both of London. They are named after founder George Bradshaw , who produced his first timetable in October 1839.
The Timetable 's page size from 1873–1939 was 123 by 184 millimetres (4.8 in × 7.2 in), [22] but was increased to 152 by 249 millimetres (6.0 in × 9.8 in) with the post-war resumption, and there have been only small changes to this subsequently. The Timetable currently measures 154 by 242 millimetres (6 in × 10 in). The number of pages per ...