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Chartered by British Railways from July 1949 to September 1950 when boiler defects put her out of service. Scrapped in 1951 in Antwerp. [59] Lord Warden: 1951 3,333 - Built in 1951 by William Denny & Bros. Collided on 7 July 1956 with French ship Tambre and was damaged at the stern. Collided with the quayside on 2 August 1975 at Calais ...
The British Rail Class 99 were a fleet of train ferries, most of which were owned by Sealink, that carried rail vehicles between Britain and mainland Europe. When British Rail implemented the TOPS system for managing their operating stock, these ships were incorporated into the system in order to circumvent some of the restrictions of the ...
Ships that sailed for British Rail from 1948 to 1997. for the rail company predecessors before 1948 see sub categories of Category:Ships by company some were operated by the British Transport Commission up to 1962 (when the BTC was abolished) from 1982 many were operated by Sealink (BR subsidiary)
Passed to British Railways in 1948 and served until scrapped in 1958. [1] [13] SS Malines: 1921: 2,969: Built for the Great Eastern Railway by Armstrong Whitworth at Newcastle, for service on the Harwich – Antwerp route. Acquired by LNER in 1923 but was torpedoed and sunk off Port Said in 1942. Having been raised and towed back in 1945 to her ...
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.
Peshawar Cantonment Railway Station (Urdu: پشاور چھاؤنی ریلوے اسٹیشن, Pashto: د پېښور اردوگاه اورګاډي سټيشن) (often abbreviated as Peshawar Cantt) is the principal railway station in Peshawar, in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. It is located on Saddar Road.
1923 she transferred to the London and North Eastern Railway and then in 1935 to Associated Humber Lines. On 23 July 1936 she was in collision with the German steamer Virgilia in the River Elbe. The Virgilia sank and the crew of the Bury rescued the German crew. [3] In 1941 Bury was taken up by the Rescue Service for conversion as a convoy ...
In 1963, ownership passed to the British Railways Board. [4] On 8 October 1965, Suffolk Ferry rescued nine of the thirteen crew of the German coastal tanker Unkas, which had collided with the Swedish cargo ship Marieholm in the North Sea 35 nautical miles (65 km) off the coast of the Netherlands. Unkas was later towed in to Rotterdam. [10]