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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. 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 ...

  4. 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.

  5. History of rail transport in Great Britain - Wikipedia

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    Frith's The Railway Station, 1862 depiction of Paddington railway station in London. In 1830, the Liverpool and Manchester Railway opened. [21] Being the world's first inter-city passenger railway and the first to have 'scheduled' services, terminal stations and services as we know them today, it set the pattern for modern railways.

  6. 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 ]

  7. 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.

  8. 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.

  9. History of rail transport in Great Britain 1995 to date

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    High Speed 1, a project to construct a 67-mile (108 km) high-speed rail line from London to the British end of the Channel Tunnel, and involving a great deal of complex civil engineering including a 1,404-yard (1,284 m) bridge over the River Medway, a 2-mile (3.2 km) tunnel under the Thames near Dartford, a 2-mile tunnel through the North Downs ...