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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 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.

British and double
On the far right, towards Foulz, the British battalions and squadrons took up their posts in a double line near the Jeuche stream.
In the Hauran in Syria, where timber is scarce the doors were made in stone, and one measuring by is in the British Museum ; the band on the meeting stile shows that it was one of the leaves of a double door.
Titled Dr. Syn, Alias the Scarecrow, the British theatrical version was released on a double bill with The Sword in the Stone, and ran during the 1963 Christmas season ( advertised in the January 1964 issue of Photoplay ).
Kim Philby, a Soviet double agent working as a liaison officer between the British intelligence service and the United States Central Intelligence Agency, had leaked details of the infiltration plan to Moscow, and the security breach claimed the lives of about 300 infiltrators.
Harold Adrian Russell " Kim " Philby ( 1 January 1912 – 11 May 1988 ) was a high-ranking member of British intelligence who worked as a double agent before defecting to the Soviet Union.
Cowgill was the SIS representative on the XX Committee run by John Masterman, which dealt with double agents working for the Abwehr but controlled by the British.
" Modrzhinskaya concluded that all were double agents, working essentially for the British.
* 1914 – Eddie Chapman, British World War II spy and double agent, aka Agent Zigzag ( d. 1997 )
* A double palimpsest, in which a text of St John Chrysostom, in Syriac, of the ninth or 10th century, covers a Latin grammatical treatise in a cursive hand of the 6th century, which in its turn covers the Latin annals of the historian Granius Licinianus, of the 5th century, British Museum.
1967 saw the Beatles release the double A-side " Strawberry Fields Forever " and " Penny Lane ", opening a strain of British " pastoral " or " nostalgic " psychedelia, followed by the release of what is often seen as their definitive psychedelic statement in Sgt.
American concert and stage performers will often fail to " breathe " and / or " voice " between the two fricatives, leading audiences familiar with British slang to hear " Don't you love arse ?," misinterpreting the lyric or at the least perceiving an unintended double entendre.
During WWII, British subject Eddie Chapman, trained by the Germans in sabotage, became a double agent for the British.
In order to make the Germans aim short, the British used the double agents to exaggerate the number of V-1s falling in the north and west of London and not to report, when possible, those in the south and east.
Joan Pujol Garcia ( Catalan ; ), MBE ( 14 February 1912 – 10 October 1988 ) deliberately became a double agent during World War II, known by the British codename and the German codename.
During the Second World War he offered his services to Nazi Germany as a spy and a traitor and subsequently became a British double agent.
Williams worked regularly in British film during the 1960s and 1970s, mainly in the Carry On series ( 1958 – 1978 ) with its British double entendre humour.
By the time of his fifth win of the year at the British GP, he had more than double the points of his closest challengers Jody Scheckter and James Hunt, and a second consecutive World Championship appeared a formality.
The Treaty of Punakha amended two articles of the 1865 treaty: the British agreed to double their annual stipend to 100, 000 rupees and " to exercise no interference in the internal administration of Bhutan.
Former president of the BVI's Financial Services Commission, Michael Riegels, recites the anecdote that the industry commenced on an unknown date in the 1970s when a lawyer from a firm in New York telephoned him with a proposal to incorporate a company in the British Virgin Islands to take advantage of a double taxation relief treaty with the United States.
" The album's fourth single, the double A-side release " Alright "/" Time ", stayed in British Top Three for a month, peaking at number two.
The double Thames Lock at Brentford acts as the demarcation point between the Thames, administered by the Port of London Authority, and the River Brent / Grand Union Canal, administered by British Waterways.

British and arrow
This theory, conceived by a British Glass manufacturer, proposes that the first two figures are Gauis Octavius, father of the future emperor, and Attia Julia Balboa, his mother ( hence the cherub with the arrow ) who had a dream of being impregnated by Apollo in the form of a sea serpent ( ketos ), note the snake's prominent teeth.
The arrow of time, or time ’ s arrow, is a term coined in 1927 by the British astronomer Arthur Eddington to describe the " one-way direction " or " asymmetry " of time.
* Three banks of cylinders sharing a common crankshaft, a configuration also known as broad arrow configuration due to its shape resembling the British government broad arrow property mark.
Marked by agents of the Crown in colonial times with the broad arrow, they were reserved for the British Royal Navy.
Woodward's A Treatise on Heraldry: British and Foreign with English and French Glossaries, makes the following distinction between the broad arrow and pheon: " A BROAD ARROW and a PHEON are represented similarly, except that the Pheon has its inner edges jagged, or engrailed.
With more bus stops, railway stations, bus stations and tram stops than any other PTE in the UK outside the capital, the ' double-M ' logo is arguably the third most used UK transport logo after the London Transport ' roundel ' and the British Railways double arrow.
The arrow shaft is made from wood, and generations of British schoolboys have found that 18 inch (~ 45 cm ) green garden canes are perfect for the job, being straight and lightweight.
The locomotives on the Vale of Rheidol Railway were the only steam locomotives ever officially to carry the British Rail corporate blue and the double arrow logo.
* January – British Railways adopts a new corporate identity including the name British Rail and the ' double arrow ' symbol.
The DRU's 1965 rebranding of British Rail included a new logo ( the double arrow ), a shortened name British Rail, and the total adoption of Rail Alphabet for all lettering other than printed matter including station signage, trackside signs, fixed notices, signs inside trains and train liveries.
Following the corporate identity campaign and the change of name to British Rail plus introduction of the " double arrow " logo in 1964, some locomotives received all-over BR Rail blue with small yellow warning panels.

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