From the start of 1948, the " big four " were nationalised to form British Railways ( latterly " British Rail ") under the control of the British Transport Commission.

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.

The British Railways Mark 1 coach brought into production in 1950 used the BR1 bogie, which was rated to run at.

British Railways closed the line to mainline passenger trains in 1973, but re-opened as a heritage line and has run as one ever since.

* 1946 Railways and British military airfields were attacked several times.

London Transport was taken in to public ownership and became part of the British Transport Commission, which brought London Transport and British Railways under the same control for the first and last time.

The London Transport Board was the transport authority from 1 January 1963 to 31 December 1969 It reported directly to the Minister of Transport, ending its direct association with the management of British Railways.

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 ).

Northern Ireland Railways was never part of British Rail, which was always confined to Great Britain, and therefore is not part of the National Rail network.

* BR 92220 Evening Star, the last steam locomotive to be built by British Railways

* 1962 – Last run of the famous Pines Express over the Somerset and Dorset Railway line ( UK ) fittingly using the last steam locomotive built by British Railways, 9F locomotive 92220 Evening Star.

* 1967 – The formal end of steam traction in the North East of England by British Railways.

* November 5 – The Parliament of the United Kingdom passes the Railways Act, setting out the procedures for privatisation of British Rail.

** UK railways are nationalized to form British Railways.

** The locomotive Flying Scotsman ( British Railways No. 60103 ) makes its last scheduled run, before going into the hands of Alan Pegler for preservation.

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 ).

* January 1 – The Grouping: All major British railway companies are grouped into four larger companies, under terms of the Railways Act 1921.

The historic term light railway was used because it dated from the British Light Railways Act 1896, although the technology used in the DLR system was at the high end of what Americans considered to be light rail.

The British Army of the Rhine was the Germany garrison formation, with the main fighting force being I ( BR ) Corps.

British Rail ( BR ) trains continued to access the line via a link from Temple Mills East to Leyton.

< BR > From whence results the same kind of pleasure to the mind, as doth to the eye when we behold Harlequin trimming himself with a hatchet, hewing down a tree with a razor, making his tea in a cauldron, and brewing his ale in a teapot, to the incredible satisfaction of the British spectator.

That was when British Rail ( BR ), Britain's old nationalised railway, had to withdraw its so-called Advanced Passenger Train after only three days of scheduled services.

After becoming part of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway in 1923 during Grouping, ownership passed to British Railways ( BR ) following nationalisation in 1948.

BR withdrew passenger services from the Coventry to Leamington Line and closed Kenilworth station in January 1965 in accordance with The Reshaping of British Railways report.

A BR British Rail Class 87 | Class 87 electric locomotive, in Rail Blue | BR blue livery with a train of British Rail Mark 2 | Mark 2 coaches.

In 1846 the L & BR merged with the Grand Junction Railway and the Manchester and Birmingham Railway to form the London and North Western Railway, which in turn was later absorbed into the London Midland and Scottish Railway, before finally passing into the hands of the nationalised British Rail in 1948 to become part of the West Coast Main Line as it is known today.

This had been done by other lines connecting with the CLR stations at Oxford Circus and Tottenham Court Road, but an interchange station was not initially constructed between the GNP & BR and the CLR because the tunnel alignment to British Museum station would not have been suitable for the GNP & BR's route to its Strand station ( later called Aldwych ).

The corporate rebranding of BR as British Rail in 1965 introduced Rail Alphabet for signage, and Helvetica and / or Univers for printed matter.

The ' Pacer ' series was a project by British Rail ( BR ) to create a train, with low running costs, for use on rural and suburban rail services.

This had been done by other lines connecting with the CLR stations at Oxford Circus and Tottenham Court Road, but an interchange station was not initially constructed between the GNP & BR and the CLR because the tunnel alignment to British Museum station would not have been suitable for the GNP & BR's route to its Strand station ( later called Aldwych ).

Recently No. 777 emerged from a lengthy overhaul in British Railways Brunswick green livery, under the BR number 30777.

Lindworm < BR > ( wingless bipedal dragon ) in British heraldry

* British Rail Class 73, components assembled by BR.

In 1963 British Railways withdrew passenger services between and Oxford and closed Thame station, leaving Princes Risborough ( 7 miles ) as the nearest passenger station until 1987 ( see below ) BR dismantled the track between Thame and, but kept the line between Thame and Princes Risborough open for goods traffic to and from an oil depot in Thame.

British Rail ( BR ) assigned Class 52 to the class of 74 large Type 4 diesel-hydraulic locomotives built for the Western Region of British Railways between 1961 and 1964.

Privatisation was completed in 1997, but the BRB continued to discharge residual functions relating to non-operational railway land and BR pensions, and to have responsibility for the British Transport Police.

Under the influence of several younger scholars, a new approach came to predominate among British anthropologists, concerned with analyzing how societies held together in the present ( synchronic analysis, rather than diachronic or historical analysis ), and emphasizing long-term ( one to several years ) immersion fieldwork.

In other countries ( and in some, particularly smaller, British and North American universities ), anthropologists have also found themselves institutionally linked with scholars of folklore, museum studies, human geography, sociology, social relations, ethnic studies, cultural studies, and social work.

* Albert Austin ( 1881 – 1953 ), British / American actor

* Alfred Austin ( 1835 – 1913 ), British poet

* Bunny Austin ( 1906 – 2000 ), British tennis player

* Herbert Austin ( 1866 – 1941 ), British founder of the Austin Motor Company

* Hubert Austin ( 1845 – 1915 ), British architect

* J. L. Austin ( 1911 – 1960 ), British philosopher

* Aberdeen Station ( TransLink ), SkyTrain station on the Canada Line in Richmond, British Columbia, Canada

An appellate court, commonly called an appeals court or court of appeals ( American English ) or appeal court ( British English ), is any court of law that is empowered to hear an appeal of a trial court or other lower tribunal.

* Animal ( journal ), full title: Animal: An International Journal of Animal Bioscience, British academic journal

Not only was his Belgian nationality interesting because of Belgium's occupation by Germany ( which provided a valid explanation of why such a skilled detective would be out of work and available to solve mysteries at an English country house ), but also at the time of Christie's writing, it was considered patriotic to express sympathy with the Belgians, since the invasion of their country had constituted Britain's casus belli for entering World War I, and British wartime propaganda emphasized the " Rape of Belgium ".

* 1639 – Madras ( now Chennai ), India, is founded by the British East India Company on a sliver of land bought from local Nayak rulers.

* Atlantic ( film ), a black and white British film

Other awards for excellence in architecture are given by national professional associations such as the American Institute of Architects ( AIA ), the Royal Institute of British Architects ( RIBA ), the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada ( RAIC ) and the Institute of Architects Bangladesh ( IAB ).

In British English, according to Hart's Rules, the general rule is that abbreviations ( in the narrow sense that includes only words with the ending, and not the middle, dropped ) terminate with a full stop ( period ), whereas contractions ( in the sense of words missing a middle part ) do not.

Demeritt ( 1995 ) argues that in British Columbia ( and Canada generally ), there were three overlapping agrarian viewpoints.

Alan Mathison Turing, OBE, FRS ( ; 23 June 1912 – 7 June 1954 ), was a British mathematician, logician, cryptanalyst, and computer scientist.

* Adrian Bailey ( born 1949 ), British Labour Co-operative politician

* Adrian Archibald ( born c. 1969 ), British motorcycle racer

* Adrian Newey ( born 1958 ), British race car engineer and designer

* Adrian Turner ( born 1977 ), British Olympic swimmer

* Adrian Chiles ( born 1967 ), British television and radio presenter

* Adrian Heath ( painter ) ( 1920 – 1992 ), British painter