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The British Rail Passenger Timetable, later the National Rail Timetable and now the Electronic National Rail Timetable ( eNRT ), is a document containing the times of all passenger rail services in Great Britain. It was first published by British Rail in 1974. [1]
Bradshaw's Continental Railway Guide, 1891. Bradshaw's Handbook for Tourists in Great Britain and Ireland, 1882. Bradshaw's was a series of railway timetables and travel guide books published by W.J. Adams and later Henry Blacklock, both of London. They are named after founder George Bradshaw, who produced his first timetable in October 1839.
Glasgow Central – London Euston. 1957 – 1964. Caledonian Sleeper (night train) InterCity West Coast /. ScotRail (British Rail) / ScotRail (National Express) / First ScotRail / Caledonian Sleeper. London Euston – Edinburgh Waverley. London Euston – Aberdeen. London Euston – Fort William. London Euston – Glasgow Central.
The railway system in Great Britainis the oldest railway system in the world. The first locomotive-hauled public railway opened in 1825, which was followed by an era of rapid expansion. Most of the track is managed by Network Rail, which in 2017 had a network of 9,824 miles (15,811 km) of standard-gaugelines, of which 3,339 miles (5,374 km ...
National Rail. National Rail ( NR) is the trading name licensed for use by the Rail Delivery Group, an unincorporated association whose membership consists of the passenger train operating companies (TOCs) of England, Scotland, and Wales. The TOCs run the passenger services previously provided by the British Railways Board, from 1965 using the ...
The ABC Rail Guide, first published in 1853 as The ABC or Alphabetical Railway Guide, was a monthly railway timetable guide to the United Kingdom that was organised on an alphabetical basis that made it easier to use than its competitor Bradshaw's Guide which had a reputation for difficulty. It was one of many railway timetable guides published ...
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.
Railway time. Clock on The Exchange, Bristol, showing two minute hands, one for London time ( GMT) 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 ...