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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
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).
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See Category:Railway stations in Northern Ireland and Rail transport in Ireland. Pages in category "Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1950" The following 4 pages are in this category, out of 4 total.
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.
The Transport Act 1947 provided for the nationalisation of all heavy rail systems in the UK to allow for this investment and, in theory, to improve the rights of railway workers. The railway companies were amalgamated into British Railways, part of the British Transport Commission , and six geographic and administrative regions were created out ...
Clock on The Exchange, Bristol, showing two minute hands, one for London time and one for Bristol time (GMT minus 11 minutes).. Railway time was the standardised time arrangement first applied by the Great Western Railway in England in November 1840, the first recorded occasion when different local mean times were synchronised and a single standard time applied.
By October 1950, the timetable had three through workings between York and Pickering, but not all services stopped at all of the stations on the East Coast Main Line. [18] All stations on the line between Bishophouse Junction and Mill Lane junction continued to be called at by trains, with the exception of Ampleforth, which closed in 1950.