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  2. Category:Railway maps of the United Kingdom - Wikipedia

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    Hammersmith Railway Map, 1889.jpg 303 × 378; 95 KB London Tube Map.png 400 × 250; 148 KB Metropolitan Railway 1903, Brill & 1936-1961 limits marked.jpg 1,697 × 4,587; 3.92 MB

  3. Rail transport in Great Britain - Wikipedia

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    After the building of the first of a new Class 395 train fleet for use partly on High Speed 1 and parts of the rest of the UK rail network, the first domestic high-speed running over 125 mph (to about 140 mph) began in December 2009, including a special Olympic Javelin shuttle for the 2012 Summer Olympics.

  4. Beeching cuts - Wikipedia

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    The first report identified 2,363 stations and 5,000 miles (8,000 km) of railway line for closure, amounting to 55% of stations, 30% of route miles, and the loss of 67,700 British Rail jobs, [1] with an objective of stemming the large losses being incurred during a period of increasing competition from road transport and reducing the rail ...

  5. History of rail transport in Great Britain 1948–1994 - Wikipedia

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    Beeching was a businessman rather than a railwayman and his high salary (particularly in a nationalised industry) caused controversy. His report The Reshaping of British Railways (commonly known simply as "The Beeching Report") issued in 1963, concluded that much of the railway network carried little traffic and should be closed down.

  6. List of Beeching cuts service reopenings - Wikipedia

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    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.

  7. List of closed railway stations in Britain: A - Wikipedia

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    Great Western Railway/Rhymney Railway Jt 1951 Aberfeldy: Highland Railway: 1965 Aberford: Aberford Railway: 1924 Aberfoyle: NBR: 1951 Abergavenny Brecon Road: Merthyr, Tredegar and Abergavenny Railway: 1958 Abergavenny Junction: GWR: 1958 Aberglaslyn: Welsh Highland Railway: 1936 reopened as Nantmor in 2010 Abergwili: LNWR: 1963 Abergwynfi: GWR ...

  8. List of railway lines in Great Britain - Wikipedia

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    Railway lines in England and Wales, as of 2010 This is a list of railway lines in Great Britain that are currently in operation, split by country and region . There are a limited number of main inter-regional lines, with all but one entering Greater London . [ 1 ]

  9. Template:UK-railway-routemap - Wikipedia

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    This is a route-map template for the Stockton and Darlington Railway, a UK railway. Adding an optinal second parameter will change the displayed text of the link, making it a piped link , for example,

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