Instead, from 1 January 1923, almost all the remaining companies were grouped into the " big four ", the Great Western Railway, the London and North Eastern Railway, the London, Midland and Scottish Railway and the Southern Railway companies ( there were also a number of other joint railways such as the Midland and Great Northern Joint Railway and the Cheshire Lines Committee as well as special joint railways such as the Forth Bridge Railway, Ryde Pier Railway and at one time the East London Railway ).

* 1906 – The London Underground's Great Northern, Piccadilly and Brompton Railway opens.

* Gopher ( train ), a passenger train operated by the Great Northern Railway, USA

Greenwich Mean Time was adopted across the island of Great Britain by the Railway Clearing House in 1847, and by almost all railway companies by the following year, from which the term " railway time " is derived.

The Great Eastern Hotel was closed in 1923 by the newly formed LNER, the hotel having suffered a decline resulting from the opening of the new passenger port up-river at Parkeston Quay where a new hotel with the same name had been opened by the Great Eastern Railway.

* GWR Iron Duke Class, the name of a famous class of locomotive built by the Great Western Railway in England

* Iron Duke was one of the GWR 3031 Class locomotives that were built for and run on the Great Western Railway between 1891 and 1915.

* 1803 – The Surrey Iron Railway, arguably the world's first public railway, opens in south London, England, Great Britain.

* 1910 – The worst avalanche in United States history buries a Great Northern Railway train in northeastern King County, Washington, killing 96 people.

Palin's first travel documentary was part of the 1980 BBC Television series Great Railway Journeys of the World, in which, humorously reminiscing about his childhood hobby of train spotting, he travelled throughout the UK by train, from London to the Kyle of Lochalsh, via Manchester, York, Newcastle upon Tyne, Edinburgh and Inverness.

* Gerald of Wales was 4th in the series of 8 by Nicholas Crane in Great British Journeys

It then passed between the White Mountains and the Mountains of Shadow through the ancient capital of Gondor, Osgiliath, before swinging past the harbour of Harlond close to the Rammas Echor south of Minas Tirith ( Barbara Strachey, in Journeys of Frodo, places the harbour just outside the wall ), and the Emyn Arnen and down past the port of Pelargir, entering the Great Sea in the Bay of Belfalas in a broad delta known as the Mouths of Anduin.

In 1999 he also appeared in Great Railway Journeys of the World, travelling from Guantanamo to Pinar del Rio.

Portillo has featured in a number of television documentaries, including one on Richard Wagner, of whose music he is a notable fan, and two on Spain: Great Railway Journeys: From Granada to Salamanca for BBC Two ( 2002 ), and a programme on Spanish wildlife for BBC Two's The Natural World series ( 2006 )-Portillo is a fluent Spanish speaker.

Filmed in 2009 but first broadcast 4 January 2010, Portillo presented Great British Railway Journeys in which he explored, with the aid of George Bradshaw's 1840 railway guidebook, how the railways had a profound influence on the social, economic and political history of Britain.

A similar claim is made that the tune came to the blind itinerant harpist Rory Dall O ' Cahan in a dream, and a documentary detailing this version was broadcast on the Maryland Public Television in USA in March 2000 .; reference to this was also made by historian John Hamilton in Michael Portillo's TV programme " Great British Railway Journeys Goes to Ireland " in February 2012.

* From St. Louis to Dogon Country ( 1999 ) part of the BBC series Great Railway Journeys.

* Great British Railway Journeys

He presented an episode, " Three Miles High ", in the first series of the BBC's Great Railway Journeys travelling through parts of Peru and Bolivia.

Pennant's exploration of Western Isles of Scotland was revisited by Nicholas Crane in a television documentary programme first broadcast on BBC Two on 16 August 2007, as part of the " Great British Journeys " series.

Let Our Fame Be Great: Journeys Among the Defiant People of the Caucasus.

Shortly before the closure of the narrow gauge line in 1980, the BBC filmed an episode of the television series " Great Railway Journeys of the World " featuring the original route of the Ghan ( and the infamously slow speed of the train ).

Christchurch School, in the tidewater area of Virginia, has an experiential program called Great Journeys Begin at the River.

Among his many publications were the nine-volume work Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great and the short story A Message to Garcia.

* Little Journeys to the Homes of Good Men and Great ( 1895-1910 )

* Great Railway Journeys ( 1996 )

* Elbert Hubbard, 1909, Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Vol.

* In 1980, the BBC did a series of documentaries, entitled " Great Railway Journeys Of The World ".

Great British Bus Journeys was shortlisted for a Dolman Best Travel Book Award in 2007.

* Great British Bus Journeys: Travels Through Unfamous Places, Atlantic Books ( 2006 ) ISBN 978-1-84354-132-5

* Mathrani, Vandana ( 2002 ) Epic Journeys: The Great Migrations ( accessed: Thursday, March 15, 2007 )

Gilpin is one of eight travellers included in Nicholas Crane's Great British Journeys.

* Great British Railway Journeys for BBC Two.

The best-known and longest-running of these events is the rugby league rivalry between Great Britain and Australia ( see rugby league " Ashes ").

Other common names are ear shells, sea ears, as well as muttonfish or muttonshells in Australia, ormer in Great Britain, and venus's-ears in South Africa and in New Zealand.

* 1770 – James Cook formally claims eastern Australia for Great Britain, naming it New South Wales.

* Capricorn and Bunker Group, islands of the southern Great Barrier Reef, Australia

Australia established its first central bank in 1920, Colombia in 1923, Mexico and Chile in 1925 and Canada and New Zealand in the aftermath of the Great Depression in 1934.

It is contested every 3 to 4 years between Australia, Great Britain, the United States and New Zealand.

Louis Hartz explained the absence of conservatism in Australia or the United States as a result of their settlement as radical or liberal fragments of Great Britain.

Other noted countries in the sport include Russia, Great Britain, Italy, Australia and Canada.

It was the first direct link between Australia and Great Britain.

* The Great Auk is the mascot of the Archmere Academy in Claymont, Delaware, Sir Sandford Fleming College in Ontario, and the Adelaide University Choral Society ( AUCS ) in Australia.

The Great Victoria Desert is a sparsely populated desert area in Western Australia and South Australia.

The Great Victoria is the largest desert in Australia and consists of many small sandhills, grassland plains, areas with a closely packed surface of pebbles ( called desert pavement or gibber plains ) and salt lakes.

The Great Victoria desert is a World Wildlife Fund ecoregion and an Interim Biogeographic Regionalisation for Australia ( IBRA ) region of the same name.

Habitat is also preserved in the large Aboriginal local government area of Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara in South Australia and in the Great Victoria Desert Nature Reserve of Western Australia.

Walker ( 2007 ) compares Irish immigrant communities in the United States, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, and Great Britain respecting issues of identity and ' Irishness.

Examples include Greenland, Long Island, and Sable Island off North America ; Barbados and Trinidad off South America ; Great Britain, Ireland and Sicily off Europe ; Sumatra, Borneo and Java off Asia ; and New Guinea, Tasmania and Kangaroo Island off Australia.

IEC standards are also being adopted as harmonized standards by other certifying bodies such as BSI ( Great Britain ), CSA ( Canada ), UL & ANSI / INCITS ( USA ), SABS ( South Africa ), SAI ( Australia ), SPC / GB ( China ) and DIN ( Germany ).

In the Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923, a Canadian steamship, the RMS Empress of Australia and her captain, Samuel Robinson achieved international acclaim for stalwart rescue efforts during the immediate aftermath of that disaster.

By 1980 the firm had operations in southern Africa, Australia, China, Great Britain, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Philippines, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, as well as the United States, and employed 37, 000 people.

Progestin-only EC is available as a dedicated emergency contraceptive product under many names worldwide, including: in the U. S., Canada and Honduras as Plan B ; in Great Britain, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, Portugal and Italy as Levonelle ; in South Africa as Escapelle ; in 44 nations including France, most of Western Europe, India, and several countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America as NorLevo ; and in 44 nations including most of Eastern Europe, Mexico and many other Latin American countries, Portugal, Australia and New Zealand, Israel, China, Hong Kong, Taiwan and Singapore as Postinor-2.

* 1861 – The Great Comet of 1861 is discovered by John Tebbutt of Windsor, New South Wales, Australia.

One of the most dramatic is the Great Barrier Reef off northeastern Australia.