Originally a trading brand of the Railway Executive of the British Transport Commission, it became an independent statutory corporation in 1962: the British Railways Board.

On 1 January 1988, British Telecom ( BT ) and the Government of Gibraltar formed a joint venture company called Gibraltar Telecommunications International Ltd ( known by its commercial brand Gibtel ) to operate Gibraltar's international telecommunications services.

* Kam ( music equipment brand ), A British brand of DJ equipment, music equipment & lighting.

The Capitalcard brand ended in January 1989 when the Travelcard gained validity on British Rail.

Although the brand originates from the original 1947 model, Land Rover as a company has only existed since 1978, prior to this it was a product line of the Rover Company which was subsequently absorbed into the Rover-Triumph division of the British Leyland Motor Corporation ( BL ) following Leyland Motor Corporation ’ s takeover of Rover in 1967.

ATOC is an unincorporated association whose membership consists of the passenger Train Operating Companies ( TOCs ) of Great Britain that run the passenger services previously provided by the British Railways Board, from 1965 using the brand name British Rail ).

Recently arrived from Australia, the band was now considered insufficiently " cool " to qualify as punk by much of the British media, though they had been playing a similar brand of music for years.

As they moved away from their psychedelic roots and placed increasing emphasis on electronic experimentation German bands like Kraftwerk, Tangerine Dream, Can and Faust developed a distinctive brand of electronic rock, known as kosmische musik, or in the British press as " Kraut rock ".

* A cigarette brand by Imperial Tobacco with British American Tobacco is named Peter Stuyvesant.

* Tone's Spices, a brand owned by Associated British Foods

As recently as the 1950s, it may have been acceptable British usage to say niggers when referring to black people, notable in mainstream usages such as Nigger Boy – brand candy cigarettes, and the color nigger brown or simply nigger ( dark brown );

Following Chrysler's takeover of the British Rootes Group, Simca of France, and Barreiros of Spain, and the resultant establishment of Chrysler Europe in the late 1960s, the Dodge brand was used on light commercial vehicles, most of which were previously branded Commer or Karrier, on pickup and van versions of the Simca 1100, on the Spanish Dodge Dart, and on heavy trucks built in Spain.

* A British Shorthair silver tabby appears on many packages and adverts of Whiskas brand cat food.

The Psion Organiser was the brand name of a range of pocket computer developed by the British company Psion in the 1980s.

But the brand had a strong heritage appeal, and the marketing name " Avro RJ " ( regional jet ) was used by British Aerospace for production of the RJ-85 and RJ-100 models of the BAe 146 from 1994 to 2001.

The UK's first supermarket under the new Premier Supermarkets brand opened in Streatham, South London, taking ten times as much per week as the average British general store of the time.

* 1947 – Texaco merged its British operation with Trinidad Leaseholds under the name Regent ; it gained full control of Regent in 1956, but the Regent brand remained in use until 1968-9.

* Bush ( brand ), a British electronics manufacturer brand owned by Home Retail Group and sold exclusively at Argos

* Cadbury Dairy Milk Caramel, a British brand of caramel chocolate bar

* Caramac, a British brand of caramel candy bar

To the newspapers he talked about his unquiet life, about his wish to be a newspaperman once more, about the prevalence of American slang in British speech, about the loquacity of the English and the impossibility of finding quiet in a railway carriage, about his plans to wander for two years `` unless stopped and made to write another book ''.

The British railway network is connected with that of continental Europe by an undersea rail link, the Channel Tunnel, opened in 1994.

A CrossCountry British Rail Class 170 | Class 170 numbered 170113 with a service from London Stansted Airport to Birmingham New Street railway station | Birmingham New Street First Capital Connect British Rail Class 365 | Class 365 ' networker ' numbered 365538 at Cambridge railway station | Cambridge Rail Station

It was formed from the nationalisation of the " Big Four " British railway companies and lasted until the gradual privatisation of British Rail, in stages between 1994 and 1997.

The British Rail " double arrow " logo is formed of two interlocked arrows showing the direction of travel on a double track railway and was nicknamed " the arrow of indecision ".< ref >

The first British railway to build coaches with bogies, instead of rigidly mounted axles, was the Midland Railway in 1874.

Competition from the railway network from the 1830s, and in the 20th century the roads, made the smaller canals obsolete for most commercial transportation, and many of the British canals fell into decay.

A First ScotRail operated British Rail Class 318 | Class 318 departing Gourock railway station | Gourock.

From Elmers End to Woodside route 1 and route 4 ( and route 2 from Arena ) follow the former British Rail branch line to Addiscombe, then diverge to reach Addiscombe tram stop, which is 500 metres west of the now-demolished Addiscombe railway station.

A British armoured truck, hastily built from the smokebox es of several steam locomotives at Inchicore railway works

The British Army in Egypt recognised this before the war and had the Eighth Army begin construction of several " boxes " ( localities with dug-outs and surrounded by minefields and barbed wire ), the most developed being around the railway station at Alamein.

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British troops hope to use the 68 km long railway to transport much-needed aid supplies from the port town of Umm Qasr to Basra.

Before railway construction on the Continent demanded huge quantities of maleable iron mainly for rails, for which low quality iron sufficed, Wallonia was the only Continental region to follow the British model successfully.

The British government had decided, primarily for strategic reasons, to build a railway linking Mombasa with the British protectorate of Uganda.

By the time the railway was built, military resistance by the African population to the original British takeover had petered out.

In building the railway the British had to confront strong local opposition, especially from Koitalel Arap Samoei, a diviner and Nandi leader who prophesied that a black snake would tear through Nandi land spitting fire, which was seen later as the railway line.

* British Rail Class 52 or Westerns, a class of locomotives

A selection of British Railways steam locomotives make the 120-mile journey from Liverpool to Carlisle and return to Liverpool – the journey is known as the Fifteen Guinea Special ).

They have room to accommodate four standard length British Railways Mark 1 coaches and six large steam or diesel locomotives.

* Robert Hudson Ltd, defunct British manufacturer of steam locomotives

However, much of the technology developed for the power cars was subsequently used in the InterCity225 British Rail Class 91 locomotives, which run on the East Coast route from London to Leeds and Edinburgh.

This combination came about as early clockwork mechanisms and electric motors were difficult to fit within HO scale models of British prototypes which are smaller than equivalent European and US locomotives.

The Bluebell Railway also preserved a number of steam locomotives even before the cessation of steam service on British mainline railways in 1968.

No other British steam locomotives have a longer or more consistent record of high speed running than the A4s, instances of 100 mph running by them must exceed those of all other types combined, though it must be stressed that even 90 mph running was a relatively rare event with steam traction, much less 100 mph.

* 1500 Class: These are former British Rail Class 77 locomotives.

Because of the gauge, unusual for the British Isles, locomotives and rolling stock to supplement the originals have had to be obtained from a cosmopolitan variety of sources including the Zillertalbahn in Austria.

* British Rail Class 73 locomotives ( except Class 73 / 0 ), pre TOPS classification " JB "

On May 13, 2003, the provincial government of British Columbia announced that the provincial Crown corporation, BC Rail ( BCR ), would be sold with the winning bidder receiving BCR's surface operating assets ( locomotives, cars, and service facilities ).

British Railways crest as used on coaching stock and some diesel locomotives from 1956 until the late 1960s

The term Deltic ( meaning in the form of the Greek letter Delta ) is used to refer to both the Deltic E. 130 opposed-piston high-speed diesel engine and the locomotives produced by English Electric using these engines, including its demonstrator locomotive named DELTIC and the production version for British Railways, which designated these as ( TOPS ) Class 55.

Brush Type 2 locomotives became British Rail Class 31 | Class 31 under TOPS.

The Canada Science and Technology Museum owns one operational engine constructed from two locomotives, numbered engines 3 and 4 built for the Merrill & Ring Lumber Co., Ltd and used in their forestry operations at Theodosia Arm on the British Columbia mainland.

By this time, the Beeching Axe had reduced by two-thirds the amount of trackage in the UK ; as a resultant, most steam locomotives had been withdrawn, and most British Railways standard-design diesel and electric locomotives had double-ended cabs.

Presently, brake vans are only deemed necessary by HM Railway Inspectorate or Network Rail in certain special cases, for example in trains with unusual cargoes or track maintenance trains, or when one of the few single-cabbed locomotives are used, such as the British Rail Class 20.

British and European locomotives of this type tend to be much smaller than the common size in the United States.

These were developed from similar locomotives supplied by the English Electric Company to the Big Four British railway companies in the 1930s and 1940s, e. g. those pioneered by the LMS.

Steam locomotives operated by British Railways for the Underground ran a shuttle service from Epping to Ongar ( stopping at Blake Hall ) from 1949 to 1957, when the line was electrified and taken over by the Underground's Central Line.

Steam locomotives operated by British Rail for the London Underground ran a shuttle service from Epping to Ongar ( stopping at North Weald ) from 1949 to 1957, when the track was electrified and taken over by the Underground's Central Line.