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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.
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. The job of this wagon was to provide extra braking force for a train and ...
Thus, class 47 was originally divided into sub-classes 47/1 (locomotives fitted with steam-heating equipment), 47/2 (not fitted with train-heating equipment) and 47/3 (fitted with electric train-heating equipment), but in 1973 these sub-classes were redesignated 47/0, 47/3 and 47/4. Usually, the subclass is connected to the first digit of the ...
[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 ...
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 It was superseded by the modular rulebook following re-privatisation of the railways.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. [3]
2 × Leyland 150 bhp (112 kW) 106 sets Class 103: Park Royal: 2 × AEC 150 bhp (112 kW) 1957 20 sets (40 cars) 1972–1983 1985–1990 (departmental use) About 19 (3 in preservation) Class 104: Birmingham RC&W: 2 × Leyland 150 bhp (112 kW) 1957–1959 302 cars 1980–1995 About 63 Class 105: Cravens: 2 × AEC 150 bhp (112 kW) 1956–1959 302 cars
The Official Handbook of Stations was a large book (13 in × 8 in or 33 cm × 20 cm, 494 pages) listing all the passenger and goods stations, as well as private sidings, on the railways of Great Britain and Ireland.
The O4s were added to when the LNER purchased 273 ex-Railway Operating Division ROD 2-8-0s to the same design between 1923 and 1927.Meanwhile, the 19 GCR Class 8M (LNER Class O5) were rebuilt as O4 standard during the 1920s and 1930s.