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.

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 Victorian Railways line came about when Sir Thomas Bent became Premier of the State.

In July 2005, UNESCO added the Nilgiri Mountain Railway as an extension to the World Heritage Site of Darjeeling Himalayan Railway, the site then became known as " Mountain Railways of India.

Following nationalization of the main line railway companies in 1948, it became part of British Railways ( later British Rail ).

The GWR was the only company to keep its identity through the Railways Act 1921, which amalgamated it with the remaining independent railways within its territory, and it was finally wound up at the end of 1947 when it was nationalised and became the Western Region of British Railways.

Maine Central was purchased by Guilford Transportation Industries in 1981 and became part of Guilford Rail System, which is now named Pan Am Railways.

The first tilting train in regular public service was the 381 series electric multiple unit train operated by Japanese National Railways ( JNR ), which became entered revenue service from 10 July 1973 on the Shinano limited express between Nagoya and Nagano on the Chūō Main Line.

Following independence in 1947, he joined the latter's government and became one of Prime Minister Nehru's principal lieutenants, first as Railways Minister ( 1951 – 56 ), and then in a variety of other functions, including Home Minister.

After running various Open Weekends and Steam Galas during the early 1970s ( by permission of British Railways ) the NYMRPS transformed itself into a Charitable Trust ( to ensure the future of the railway ) and became The North York Moors Historical Railway Trust Ltd. Purchase of the line was completed and the necessary Light Railway Order obtained, giving powers to operate the railway.

In 1889 the Public Works Committee of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly recommended that the Government take over the line and it subsequently became a narrow gauge part of the New South Wales Government Railways ( NSWGR ) run under contract by Silverton Tramway.

This later became part of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway company and then London Midland Region ( British Railways ).

On his recovery he became deputy assistant director of the Imperial Military Railways, showing the qualities of organization that were to mark his involvement in both British and Ulster politics.

In 1915, the ICR became part of Canadian Government Railways and 3 years later in 1918 it became part of the Canadian National Railway ( CNR ).

In 1923, he passed the senior civil service examinations, and in the following year, upon graduation, became a civil servant in the Ministry of Railways.

In 1923 it became a constituent of the London, Midland and Scottish ( LMS ) railway, and, in 1948, the London Midland Region of British Railways: the LNWR is effectively an ancestor of today's West Coast Main Line.

In 1923 the SMJR became a minor arm of the London Midland and Scottish ( LMS ), then in 1948 ' British Railways '.

In 1948 the SMJR became part of British Railways.

He became a household name in Britain in the early 1960s for his report " The Reshaping of British Railways ", commonly referred to as " The Beeching Report ", which led to far-reaching changes in the railway network, popularly known as the Beeching Axe.

The GWR itself was nationalised in 1948 and became part of British Railways.

Both lines later became part of Canadian National Railways.

Though Parkes was personally opposed to it, a payment of members act was passed, and two important and valuable measures, the Government Railways Act and the Public Works Act both became law.

The national passenger and freight operator is called Bulgarian State Railways, but there are also a number of private operators including Bulgarian Railway Company and DB Schenker Rail Bulgaria.

Malawi Railways is the national rail network in Malawi, run by a government corporation until privatisation in 1999.

The national network is owned by state-owned enterprise New Zealand Railways Corporation division KiwiRail Network.

The exception is that during the Cold War, the East German railway incongruously continued to use the name Deutsche Reichsbahn ( German National Railways ), which had been the name of the national railway during the era of the Weimar Republic and Third Reich.

Russian Railways, the state-owned national rail carrier, is one of the world's largest transport companies, enjoying a monopoly over rail transport in Russia.

These were the words used by Andre Rebouças, an engineer, in his book " Provinces of Paraná, Railways to Mato Grosso and Bolivia ", which started up the campaign aimed at preserving the Iguaçu Falls in 1876, when Yellowstone National Park, the first national park in the world, was four years old.

Most of this network was closed by British Railways in 1959 but the short section from Melton Constable railway station via Holt to Sheringham ( services continuing on to Cromer and Norwich ) escaped closure for a few more years-finally succumbing in 1964 when the branch was cut back to Sheringham ( now the nearest national rail-head, served by frequent services to Norwich along the ' Bittern Line ').

Swiss Federal Railways, usually abbreviated in English using the German SBB (, Schweizerische Bundesbahnen ;, Chemins de fer fédéraux suisses ;, Ferrovie federali svizzere ; Romansh: Viafiers federalas svizras ; VFS ( Romansh ) is not in official use ) is the national railway company of Switzerland headquartered in Bern.

The Swiss Federal Railways clock designed by Hans Hilfiker has become a national icon.

Iarnród Éireann ( the national rail operator in the Republic of Ireland ) ran vacuum-braked British Railways Mark 2 stock on passenger trains until the end of March 2008 and still operates vacuum-braked revenue freight ( at least in the case of Tara Mines ore traffic ).

With the majority of railways on both sides of the Great Belt thus owned by the Danish state, it was not until October 1, 1885 that the companies of Jutland / Funen and Zealand merged into one national railway company, De danske Statsbaner ( The Danish State Railways ), the merger being finalised on April 1, 1893.

Doboj is the largest national railway junction ; as such, the seats of the Republika Srpska Railways, and the Railways Corporation of Bosnia and Herzegovina are located in Doboj.

* Chemins de fer fédéraux suisses, the Swiss Federal Railways in French, the Swiss national railway.

* Pakistan Railways, reporting mark PR, is a national state-owned rail transport service of Pakistan

The metro network and the national rail network share the same gauge ( 1, 435 mm ) and loading gauge but not the same electrification system ( the metro uses 750 V DC whereas the Romanian Railways use 25, 000 V 50 Hz AC ) making it possible for new metro cars to be transported cross country as unpowered railway cars.

The Austrian Federal Railways ( German: Österreichische Bundesbahnen, ÖBB ) is the national railway system of Austria, and the administrator of Liechtenstein's railways.

Japanese national network operated by Japan Railways Group employs narrow gauge and has maximum width of and maximum height of ; however, a number JR lines were constructed as private railways prior to nationalisation in the early 20th century, and feature loading gauges smaller than the standard.

* Viafiers federalas svizras, the Romansh term for Swiss Federal Railways, the Swiss national railway.

The city became a major transportation centre due to its proximity to the river, and later, the location of the main lines of the country's national railways passing through the community ( both the CPR and CNR Railways intersect in Portage ; the only place in Canada where the two railways meet ), all within a few hundred meters of each other.

Although Shorinji Kempo was originally introduced in Japan in the late 1940s and 1950s through large scale programmes involving employees of major national organizations ( e. g. Japan Railways ) it subsequently became popular in many other countries and now, per the World Shorinji Kempo Organization, involves over 1. 5 million people in 33 countries.

It provided for the restructuring of the British Railways Board ( BRB ), the public corporation that owned and operated the national railway system.

suburban rail system Beovoz is operated by Serbian Railways, the national railway company.

In its early years, one of its major activities was in the operation of passenger excursions on the national rail network, then operated by the New Zealand Railways Department.