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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.
[1] It was one of many similar railway timetable guides [7] published during the Victorian era during the expansion of the railway network in what has been called "the age of timetables", the production of which was seen at the time as symbolic of the more regulated nature of life in the industrial era, and "a necessity in these days of ...
List Train name Company/ies Journey endpoints Dates operated 21st Century Limited [1] [2]: Grand Central: London King's Cross – Sunderland (one way only) : 2008 [2] – 2010 [citation needed]
The Great Railway Conspiracy: The Fall and Rise of Britain's Railways Since the 1950s (2nd ed.). Hawes, North Yorkshire: Leading Edge Press. ISBN 0-948135-30-1. Wolmar, Christian. (1996). The great British railway disaster. Shepperton: Ian Allan. ISBN 0711024693. OCLC 60283836. Gourvish, Terry (2002).
Although Thomas Cook Group plc ceased publication in 2013, the Thomas Cook European Rail Timetable was revived by a new company in early 2014 as simply the European Rail Timetable. [1] [2] From 1981 to 2010, Cook also produced a similar bi-monthly Overseas volume covering the rest of the world, [3] and some of that content was moved into the ...
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.
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In the timetable for winter 1959-60, the train was slowed by 25 minutes to compensate for delays during electrification work on the West Coast Main Line, for a new journey time of 7 hours 15 minutes, identical with the other two daytime named trains of the period between the two cities, the Royal Scot and the Mid-Day Scot.