Bristol Panel Signal Box was built on the site of the Platform 14 after it closed.

* 39 ( Skinners ) Signal Regiment ( Volunteers ) Bristol

** 57 City and County of Bristol ) Signal Squadron ( Volunteers )

* 39th ( Skinners ) Signal Regiment ( Volunteers ) Bristol

** 57 ( City and County of Bristol ) Signal Squadron ( Volunteers )

Many military units and civilian groups provide support for Ten-Tors and the Jubilee Challenge including the Royal Wessex Yeomanry, Exeter UOTC, 243 Field Hospital RAMC, 6th Battalion The Rifles, two Sea King HC4 helicopters from 848 Naval Air Squadron, 39 ( Skinners ) Signal Regiment, two Gazelle helicopters from 7 Regiment Army Air Corps ( Volunteers ), Bristol UOTC and the Dartmoor Rescue Group.

The mixed gauge was then laid through Box Tunnel on 16 May 1875 and so standard gauge trains could run from Bristol all the way to London, although the broad gauge was retained west of Temple Meads and through trains from London to Penzance and other stations in Devon and Cornwall continued to be formed of broad gauge trains.

Box Tunnel is to be electrified with catenary as part of the GWML electrification scheme which includes service to Bristol Temple Meads and is scheduled for completion around 2016.

From Wootton Bassett there are two different routes to Bristol, firstly via Box Tunnel and secondly via.

Throughout 2003, Sneddon and his band played a university tour, the Box Live and Summer XS tours, headlined at the ' Pop on the Rock ' music festival in the Channel Islands, and supported Bryan Adams in Bristol and Elton John in Hull.

Collection of British pillar boxes at the Inkpen Post Box Museum, near Taunton, Somerset-since re-located to Oakham Treasures, Gordano, Bristol, UK

* June 30 – Great Western Railway of England completed throughout between London and Bristol Temple Meads railway station, including Box Tunnel.

The UK company, Video Jukebox Network International Limited, was formed in 1991 and the channel was launched in April 1992 as The Box in the early days of cable television, carried by four operators United Artists, Telewest in London and Bristol, Nynex in the south of England, and Videotron which is also based in London.

New engineered roads were built by John Metcalf, Thomas Telford and most notably John McAdam, with the first ' macadamised ' stretch of road being Marsh Road at Ashton Gate, Bristol in 1816.

* Bristol Brabazon, an airliner built by the Bristol Aeroplane Company in 1949 to fly a large number of passengers on transatlantic routes from the United Kingdom to the United States.

The first modern-day hot air balloon to be built in the United Kingdom ( UK ) was the Bristol Belle in 1967.

Between the beginning of 1952 and the end of 1955, ATL built 50 wing sections for Bristol Aircraft.

The seven resulting designs ranged from the giant Bristol Brabazon, of which only the prototype was built, to the turbine-propelled Vickers Viscount, of which 445 were built.

The first batch equipped the two training schools as well as demonstration aircraft, and the aircraft, nicknamed the Bristol Boxkite went on to become a commercial success, 76 being built in all.

Official War Office policy was to purchase only aircraft designed by the Royal Aircraft Establishment, and Bristol had already built a number of their B. E. 2 two-seater reconnaissance aircraft.

During this time Bristol was noted for its preference for steel airframes, using members built up from high-tensile steel strip rolled into flanged sections rather than the light alloys more generally used in aircraft construction.

The abbey's next organ was built in 1836 by John Smith of Bristol, to a specification of thirty stops over three manuals and pedals.

The original terminal station was built in 1839-41 for the Great Western Railway ( GWR ), the first passenger railway in Bristol, and was designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel, the railway's engineer.

Between 1859 and 1875, 23 new engines were built in the workshops attached to the shed, including several of the distinctive Bristol and Exeter Railway 4-2-4T locomotives.

The GWR built a goods shed on the north side of the station adjacent to the Floating Harbour, with a small dock for transhipment of goods to barges ( though not to sea-going ships as the wharf was upstream of Bristol Bridge ).

Bristol Parkway was built in the 1970s to give Bristol a station on the railway from London to South Wales, which passes just north of the city.

An attempt to build Brunel's design in 1831 was stopped by the Bristol Riots, and the revised version of his designs was built after his death, and completed in 1864.

It was built in 1933 by the Avonside Engine Company of Bristol for use at the Lamport Ironstone mines railway near Brixworth, Northamptonshire.

The answer for Bristol was, with the co-operation of London interests, to build a line of their own ; a railway built to unprecedented standards of excellence to out-perform the lines being constructed to the north-west.

Bristol Yacht Building Company built minesweepers for the United States Navy during World War II.

The Delaware Canal was built in 1831 and connected Bristol to Easton, 60 miles to the north.

This was built on a stretched Ace chassis with coil suspension all around and a 2. 2-litre Bristol engine.

France, Germany, Russia and Japan largely built licenced or locally improved versions of the Armstrong Siddeley, Bristol, Wright, or Pratt & Whitney radials.

It is known that at least five towns ( Barrington, Bristol, Narragansett, Newport and Westerly ) place some value on some boats for tax purposes.

* Bristol Blitz, the German bombing raids on Bristol, England in 1940 and 1941

A railway station on Brighton Road ( on the Birmingham to Bristol line ) led to further expansion, and the end of the 19th century saw a proliferation of high-density small terraced houses.

Clement Martyn Doke ( 16 May 1893 in Bristol, United Kingdom – 24 February 1980 in East London, South Africa ) was a South African linguist working mainly on African languages.

A concert onboard The Thekla, moored in Bristol, followed on 19 March.

Yup ' ik, with an apostrophe, denotes the speakers of the Central Alaskan Yup ' ik language, who live in western Alaska and southwestern Alaska from southern Norton Sound to the north side of Bristol Bay, on the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta, and on Nelson Island.

" The investigations at Bristol, applying isotope tests on tooth enamel, checked whether she was born and brought up in Wessex and Mercia, as written history has indicated.

Stencil by Banksy on the waterline of Old Profanity Showboat ( Thekla ) | The Thekla, an entertainment boat in central Bristol

Instead, they ordered that he be pilloried and whipped through both London and Bristol, branded on his forehead with the letter B ( for blasphemer ), bored through the tongue with a red-hot iron and imprisoned in solitary confinement with hard labour.

Fox married Margaret Fell of Swarthmoor Hall, a lady of high social position and one of his early converts, on 27 October 1669 at a meeting in Bristol.

Locke was born on 29 August 1632, in a small thatched cottage by the church in Wrington, Somerset, about twelve miles from Bristol.

There were also regional networks centred on Bristol, Edinburgh and Newcastle, where groups of institutions had pooled resources to provide better computing facilities than could be afforded individually.

He was based at RAAF Williamtown where he worked on maintaining Bristol Beaufighters at No 5 Operational Training Unit ( 5OTU ).

* 1497 – John Cabot sets sail from Bristol, England, on his ship looking for a route to the west ( other documents give a May 2 date ).

Poul Anderson was born on November 25, 1926, in Bristol, Pennsylvania, of Scandinavian parents.

Another team, working at the University of Bristol, also created a silicon-based quantum computing chip, based on quantum optics.

However, tragedy struck on June 6, 1966, when Orbison and Claudette were riding home from Bristol, Tennessee.

Jones ' study focuses on smuggling in Bristol in the mid-16th century, arguing that the illicit export of goods like grain and leather represented a significant part of the city's business, with many members of the civic elite engaging in it.

Unconscious Rivals, ( 1893 ), oil on panel, 45 x 63 cm, Bristol City Museum and Art Gallery.

" In 1977, he sent manager Dave Bristol on a " scouting trip " so Turner could manage the Braves ; he ran the team for one game ( a loss ) before National League president Chub Feeney told him managers are forbidden to own financial interest in their club.

The delegation on behalf of the Allies included negotiators such as the U. S. Admiral Mark L. Bristol, who served as the United States High Commissioner and championed Turkish efforts.

Waterbuses operate on rivers in some of the country's largest cities such as London ( London River Services and Thames Clippers ), Cardiff ( Cardiff Waterbus ) and Bristol ( Bristol Ferry Boat ).