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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.
Rule 55 was an operating rule which applied on British railways in the 19th and 20th centuries. It was superseded by the modular rulebook following re- privatisation of the railways . [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It survives, very differently named: the driver of a train waiting at a signal on a running line must remind the signaller of its presence.
British Railways inherited a variety of brake vans from each of the Big Four: GWR, LNER, Southern Railway and LMS due to the nationalisation of the railways in 1948. A brake van , on a train, is a wagon at the rear of a goods train where a guard would sit with a hand brake .
Over the years, the British Railways Mark 2 design has been manufactured by many of the British model railway manufacturers. Hornby Railways introduced Mk. 2 BFK and TSO models in the late 1960s and these have remained in production intermittently ever since, sometimes being used to represent coaches of later variants (such as the Mk.2 B BFK in ...
[2] [3] According to the Office of Rail and Road (ORR) regulatory body: "The RSSB's principal objective is to lead and facilitate the rail industry's work to achieve continuous improvement in the health and safety performance of the railways in Great Britain." [4] In accordance with this principle, the agency's prime purpose is to lead the ...
Pages for logged out editors learn more. Contributions; Talk; UK railway technical manuals
The first combined railway timetable was produced by George Bradshaw in 1839. [2] His guide assembled timetables from the many private railway companies into one book. Bradshaw's continued to be published until 1961, with demand dwindling after the grouping of the railways in 1923, as each of the new "Big Four" companies published their own ...
Use of the DRA is mandatory [5] for drivers of British passenger trains and they are required by the Drivers' Rule Book to set it: When closing down, entering or leaving the cab; When the train is stopped at a red signal; When the train is stopped after passing a signal displaying a single yellow (caution) aspect.