In 2010, there were 1. 33 billion journeys on the National Rail network, making the British network the fifth most used in the world ( Great Britain ranks 23rd in world population ).

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.

A East Midlands Trains British Rail Class 222 | Class 222 Meridian on a London to Nottingham service.

A CrossCountry British Rail Class 170 | Class 170 numbered 170113 with a service from London Stansted Airport to Birmingham New Street railway station | Birmingham New Street First Capital Connect British Rail Class 365 | Class 365 ' networker ' numbered 365538 at Cambridge railway station | Cambridge Rail Station

British Railways ( BR ), which from 1965 traded as British Rail, was the operator of most of the rail transport in Great Britain between 1948 and 1997.

It was formed from the nationalisation of the " Big Four " British railway companies and lasted until the gradual privatisation of British Rail, in stages between 1994 and 1997.

The British Rail " double arrow " logo is formed of two interlocked arrows showing the direction of travel on a double track railway and was nicknamed " the arrow of indecision ".< ref >

The British Rail Mark 2 coach, however, carried the B4 bogies from new.

The BT10 bogie was introduced on the British Rail Mark 3 coach in the 1970s.

A First ScotRail operated British Rail Class 318 | Class 318 departing Gourock railway station | Gourock.

From Elmers End to Woodside route 1 and route 4 ( and route 2 from Arena ) follow the former British Rail branch line to Addiscombe, then diverge to reach Addiscombe tram stop, which is 500 metres west of the now-demolished Addiscombe railway station.

The section of Route 3 between Wimbledon and West Croydon follows the old single-track British Rail route for the most part, which was closed on 31 May 1997 so that it could be converted for Tramlink.

* Cyclops, a nickname for the British Rail Class 67 Locomotive

The situation was greatly complicated by the large number of landowners involved: the PLA, the Greater London Council ( GLC ), the British Gas Corporation, five borough councils, British Rail and the Central Electricity Generating Board.

* Virgin Trains British Rail Class 221 unit 221129 is named in his honour.

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

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

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.

* Class ( TV series ), a British television programme, which airs on CBBC

The British built a series of destroyers ( the A Class to I Class ) which were about 1, 400 tons standard displacement, had four guns and eight torpedo tubes ; the American Benson class of 1938 similar in size, but carried five guns and ten torpedo tubes.

He is probably best known today for his historical work on the British radical movements in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, in particular The Making of the English Working Class ( 1963 ).

The trial ran on 19 October 2010 with a Class 406 ICE train specially liveried with a British " Union flag " decal.

The British Working Class in Postwar Film.

An early design of electric locomotive showing the steeplecab arrangement: North Eastern Railway ( UK ) | North Eastern Railway British Rail Class ES1 | No. 1, England from 1905

Also, National Express East Anglia named a British Rail Class 153 ( unit number 153335 ) after him.

The British also decided to form what were known as " Class Battalions " based on ethnicity.

* Phantom, a preserved British Rail Class 08 locomotive

* British Rail Class 52 or Westerns, a class of locomotives