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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 ]
This is a list of the busiest railway stations in Great Britain on the National Rail network for the 1 April 2022 to 31 March 2023 financial year. The dataset records patterns of mobility for the first full year after travel restrictions during the COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom were completely eliminated, with increased levels of mobility when compared with the 2021–22 data ...
Rail Europe focuses on rail travel in the UK and mainland Europe, as well as some international bus journeys. Raileurope.co.uk continued to have a carbon count facility built into its journey booking process, promoting rail travel's ability to reduce a traveller's carbon footprint by up 90%.
Eurostar is an international high-speed rail service in Western Europe, connecting Belgium, France, Germany, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom.. The service is operated by the Eurostar Group which was formed from the merger of Eurostar, which operated trains through the Channel Tunnel to the United Kingdom, and Thalys which operated in Western Europe.
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Train fares cost 2.7% more than under British Rail in real terms on average. [15] For some years, Britain has been said to have the highest rail fares in Europe, with peak-time and season tickets considerably higher than other countries, partly because rail subsidies in Europe are higher.
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The British Rail Class 373, known in France as the TGV TMST and branded by Eurostar as the Eurostar e300, is a French designed and Anglo-French built electric multiple unit train that was used for Eurostar international high-speed rail services from the United Kingdom to France and Belgium through the Channel Tunnel.