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British Railways (BR), which from 1965 traded as British Rail, was a state-owned company that operated most rail transport in Great Britain from 1948 to 1997. Originally a trading brand of the Railway Executive of the British Transport Commission, it became an independent statutory corporation in January 1963, when it was formally renamed the British Railways Board.
The history of rail transport in Great Britain 1948–1994 covers the period when the British railway system was nationalised under the name of 'British Railways', latterly known as British Rail until its eventual privatisation in 1994. The railway system in this period underwent modernisation, reorganisation and rebranding, some of which ...
High-speed inter-city rail (above 124 mph or 200 km/h) was first introduced in Great Britain in the 1970s by British Rail. BR had pursued two development projects in parallel, the development of a tilting train technology, the Advanced Passenger Train (APT), and development of a conventional high-speed diesel train, the High Speed Train (HST).
The Oxford Companion to British Railway History. From 1603 to the 1990s (Oxford University Press, 1997) online review; Strangleman, Tim. Work identity at the end of the line?: privatisation and culture change in the UK rail industry (Springer, 2004). Turnock, David. An historical geography of railways in Great Britain and Ireland (Routledge, 2016).
British Rail Mark 1. British Rail Mark 1 is the family designation for the first standardised designs of railway carriages built by British Railways (BR) from 1951 until 1974, now used only for charter services on the main lines or on preserved railways. Following nationalisation in 1948, BR had continued to build carriages to the designs of ...
Class 97/6 (97 651, also known as PWM651) at Pitsford and Brampton station. Five diesel shunting locomotives purpose-built for departmental duties on the Western Region in 1953 (number 97650) and 1959 (numbers 97651-654), and originally numbered PWM650-4. Withdrawn 1987–2005. Various Pre-TOPS Departmental Locomotives.
1,435 mm (4 ft 8 + 1⁄2 in) standard gauge. The British Rail Mark 3 is a type of passenger carriage developed in response to growing competition from airlines and the car in the 1970s. A variant of the Mark 3 became the rolling stock for the High Speed Train (HST). Originally conceived as locomotive-hauled coaching stock, the first coaches ...
The British Rail Class 20, otherwise known as an English Electric Type 1, is a class of diesel-electric locomotive.In total, 228 locomotives in the class were built by English Electric between 1957 and 1968, the large number being in part because of the failure of other early designs in the same power range to provide reliable locomotives.