The Industrial Revolution improved Britain's transport infrastructure with a turnpike road network, a canal and waterway network, and a railway network.

The canal is unusual amongst Britain's artificial waterways in having a strong ( up to 2 miles per hour ) flow.

As with most of Britain's narrow canal system, the Oxford Canal suffered from a rapid decline in freight traffic after the Second World War.

Although it enabled the newly created Port of Manchester to become Britain's third busiest port — despite the city being about 40 miles ( 64 km ) inland — the canal never achieved the commercial success its sponsors had hoped for.

He has taken part in a series of adjournment debates on government funding for inland waterways, and has called for heavy goods freight to move off Britain's roads and back onto the restored canal network.

In 1948 Britain's railways, and hence the canal, were nationalised.

In May 2005 The Times reported that British Waterways was hoping to quadruple the amount of cargo carried on Britain's canal network to six million tonnes by 2010 by transporting large amounts of waste to disposal facilities.

The canal was vital to Britain's communications with her Far Eastern and Indian Ocean territories.

A restoration group was formed in 1969, as part of a national drive by the Inland Waterways Association called Safeguarding Britain's Waterways, which led to the formation in 1973 of the Droitwich Canals Trust, a limited company with local authority support, which began to work towards the restoration of the canal.

Stroudley spent seven years studying in Birmingham under John Inshaw before becoming one of Britain's most famous steam locomotive engineers. 1845: During the late 1830s, canal steam boats begin operating with limited success but in 1845, Birmingham engineer John Inshaw builds the first twin-screw canal steamers.

Underneath a nearby canal bridge, over which the A519 road passes, on the Newport side of Woodseaves, stands possibly the world's, and certainly Britain's smallest telegraph pole, its presence goes unnoticed by people crossing the bridge, but it is visible via the towpath that runs under the bridge on the south side of the canal.

The canal is home to Britain's oldest canal cruising club, the North Cheshire Cruising Club.

Gerald Templer was impressed by Fergusson's performance in the Malayan Emergency and during the Suez crisis he was put in charge of the psychological warfare component of Britain's plan to retake the Suez canal and overthrow Nasser.

In the 1960s, Britain's commercial television network, ITV, influenced by Canadian producer Sydney Newman produced the science-fiction serials Pathfinders In Space ( 1960 ) and its sequel Pathfinders to Venus ( 1961 ).

It would be three years before Britain's ITV network began full colour broadcasting.

RWT was ' Britain's smallest television network '.

The magazine collective has good relations with the majority of Britain's largest anarchist groups, having featured articles from members of the Solidarity Federation, No Border network and others.

In 1977 the Parliamentary Select Committee on Nationalised Industries recommmended considering electrification of more of Britain's rail network, and by 1979 BR presented a range of options that included electrifying the Midland Main Line from London to Yorkshire by 2000.

Made for Britain's ITV network during 1967, it brought Cambridge Footlights humour to a broader audience.

Woodhouse, chief of the British intelligence station in Tehran, Britain's covert operations network had funneled roughly £ 10, 000 per month to the Rashidian brothers ( two of Iran's most influential royalists ) in the hope of buying off, according to CIA estimates, " the armed forces, the Majlis ( Iranian parliament ), religious leaders, the press, street gangs, politicians and other influential figures ".

# the completely laissez-faire free-market system that had created Britain's elaborate rail network

The traffic from Surbiton grew to such an extent that the L & SWR soon provided a branch into Kingston itself, thus forming Britain's first suburban railway network on a mainline railway.

Later in the year, Connolly topped an unscientific poll of " Britain's Favourite Comedian " conducted by TV network Five, placing him ahead of performers such as John Cleese, Ronnie Barker, Dawn French, and Peter Cook.

* Over 100 photographs of traditional mechanical signal boxes on Britain's rail network

( A one-hour TV special drawn from the performances aired on Britain's ITV network by London Weekend Television in December 1979 to coincide with the release of the Secret Policeman's Ball record album on Island Records, produced by Lewis, of the comedy performances.

In common with the more parochial nature of the latter-era Amnesty shows ( 1987 – 2001 ) – the 2006 edition of The Secret Policeman's Ball was not filmed for international theatrical release as a movie but was instead videotaped for a UK TV special of highlights that was broadcast by Britain's Channel 4 network on 31 October 2006.

It took over nearly all of Britain's municipal telephone companies ( the sole exception being Kingston Communications in Hull ) and was responsible for the resultant telephone network until British Telecommunications ( BT ) was demerged by the British Telecommunications Act 1981.

Thurso railway station is the most northerly location served by Britain's rail network, which links the town directly with Wick, the county town of Caithness, and with Inverness, which is the administrative centre of the Highland Council area.

The original series was produced by Thames Television for Britain's ITV network.

People & Planet is Britain's largest student network campaigning on global poverty, human rights, and the environment.

In 1977 the Parliamentary Select Committee on Nationalised Industries recommmended considering electrification of more of Britain's rail network, and by 1979 BR presented a range of options that included electrifying the GW Main Line from Paddington to Swansea by 2000.

Furthermore, the network was running as a cooperative of its affiliated stations — meaning that network programming had to be funded and produced by individual stations, in a manner more comparable to the United States ' PBS or Britain's ITV than to modern expectations of a commercial television network.

His uncle, Josiah Turner, together with business partner James Starley used this as a basis for the ' Coventry Model ' in what became Britain's first cycle factory.

Although TOCs compete against each other for franchises, and for passengers on routes where more than one TOC operates, the strapline used with the National Rail logo is ' Britain's train companies working together '.

It is Britain's national gallery of international modern art and forms part of the Tate group ( together with Tate Britain, Tate Liverpool, Tate St Ives and Tate Online ).

Despite several references listing different combinations of Picti, Scotti, Hiberni, Attecotti and Saxons together as later Roman Britain's archetypal enemies, it is worth noting that ' Scotti ' and ' Hiberni ' are never listed together, perhaps suggesting that they were then, as they were later, alternative names for the Irish or confederations of the Irish.

Taken together, the two main-line stations and the associated underground station form one of Britain's biggest transport hubs.

Adele was the bigger and more charismatic star of the two during their time performing together, and she was a special favorite of Great Britain's royalty.

Calder examined how the German bombings generated ideas and images of plucky and stoical suffering and resistance that defined post-war Britain's sense of itself ; but it also showed that the " chirpy Cockney ", " all pull together " stereotypes were partly propaganda which hid the reality of an inequality of suffering due to deep social divisions, and concealed unheroic stories of opportunistic looting and rape.

Commentators pointed to the state of Britain's constituency boundaries coupled with the first-past-the-post British voting system and the distribution of votes within constituencies, which together heavily favour the Labour Party.

In late 2008, Cameron asked Lamont together with fellow former chancellors Geoffrey Howe, Nigel Lawson and Kenneth Clarke to provide Cameron with strategic political and economic advice as Britain's banking and fiscal position worsened.

On one occasion he catches fire when two sentences rub together, along with being the subject of the " Prescott-Widening Scheme " to go with a similar one for Britain's roads.

Excalibur, which also featured Captain Britain's emotionally unstable, shapeshifter lover Meggan, first gathered together in Excalibur Special Edition # 1 ( 1988 ) and were soon featured in a monthly series.

The most recent addition, in 1959, was the M1, Britain's first inter-urban motorway which links London and Yorkshire ; together with the first motorway service station.

His friend and biographer Basil Williams noticed his growing doubts about Britain's actions in southern Africa while they were on campaign together: " Both of us, who came out as hide-bound Tories, began to tend towards more liberal ideas, partly from the ... democratic company we were keeping, but chiefly, I think, from our discussions on politics and life generally.

Windschuttle argues that the principles of the Enlightenment, fused with the 19th century evangelical revival within the Church of England and Britain's rule of law had a profound effect on colonial policy and behaviour, which was humane and just, that together made the claimed genocide culturally impossible.

" Applebaum suggested there was bipartisanship in Britain, meaning a coalition in 2010 between the opposing major parties, but that it remained to be seen whether the coalition can stay together to solve serious problems such as tackling Britain's financial crisis.

Britain's 16 Air Assault Brigade was formed in 1999 following an amalgamation of elements of 5th Infantry Brigade ( 5 Airborne Brigade ) and 24 Airmobile Brigade, bringing together the agility and reach of airborne forces with the potency of the attack helicopter.

* National Economic Development Council, a corporatist economic planning forum set up in the 1962 in the United Kingdom to bring together management, trades unions and government in an attempt to address Britain's relative economic decline

On 31 March 2011 she told the Daily Telegraph that Britain's Muslim population needs to be persuaded by the government that Britain is a single nation, and that they can't just " rub along together " but must be persuaded that their long-term future lies in Britain.

The storyline weaves together events and concerns of the late 1970s, including low-level political and police corruption, Provisional Irish Republican Army ( IRA ) gun-running, the displacement of traditional British industry by property development, Britain's membership of the EEC ( later the European Union ) and the free market economy – the latter was strongly in the ascendant at the time the film was made, in the first year of the Thatcher government.

The couple had been friends since Shaw's Hear ' Say days, but began dating in December 2005 after appearing together on Britain's Worst Celebrity Driver.