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Banchory railway station on the Deeside Railway, Scotland, in 1961.The station closed in 1966. After growing rapidly in the 19th century during the Railway Mania, the British railway system reached its height in the years immediately before the First World War, with a network of 23,440 miles (37,720 km). [2]
Media in category "Railway maps of the United Kingdom" The following 10 files are in this category, out of 10 total. Extract of 1889 Railway Map Showing Grosvenor Road station.png 315 × 396; 367 KB
The Beeching cuts were a reduction in the size of the British railway network, along with a restructuring of British Rail, in the 1960s.Since the mid-1990s there has been significant growth in passenger numbers on the railways and renewed government interest in the role of rail in UK transport.
British Railway History. An outline from the accession of William IV to the Nationalisation of Railways, 1830–1876 (vol 1. G. Allen and Unwin, 1954) Ellis, Cuthbert Hamilton. British Railway History: An Outline from the Accession of William IV to the Nationalization of Railways, 1877–1947. Vol. 2 (G. Allen and Unwin, 1959); see online review.
In her book British Rail: The Nation's Railway, Tanya Jackson argues that the Modernisation Plan laid the foundations of the highly successful Inter-City operation as well as planting the seeds of modern industrial design in the railway organisation. This was to lead to British Rail producing its benchmark Corporate Identity Manual in the sixties.
Great Western Railway: 1985 Aberthaw High Level: Barry Railway: 1964 Aberthaw Low Level: Taff Vale Railway: 1930 Aberthin Platform: Taff Vale Railway: 1920 Abertillery (1st) GWR: 1893 Abertillery (2nd) GWR: 1962 Abertridwr: Rhymney Railway: 1964 Abertysswg: Brecon and Merthyr Tydfil Junction Railway: 1930 Aberystwyth (Vale of Rheidol Railway ...
Rail transport in Northamptonshire is an integral part of transport in Northamptonshire and part of the national rail network of Great Britain. Rail in the county of Northamptonshire began in the 1840s with the London and Birmingham Railway who built a section of the West Coast Main Line through the county, along with numerous branch lines.
Train fares cost 2.7% more than under British Rail in real terms on average. [17] However, while the price of anytime and off-peak tickets has increased, the price of Advance tickets has dramatically decreased in real terms: the average Advance ticket in 1995 cost £9.14 (in 2014 prices) compared to £5.17 in 2014.