British Rail

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Reception Iris Murdoch
British Book News commented that this book, while in many ways typical of its author, was more deliberately patterned and contrived than most.
British Book News. British Council.
(1976): 958
This book featured, its title legible, in an advertisement for...
Residence Margery Allingham
The name of the farm comes from the nearby London and North Eastern Railway viaduct over the River Stour. MA had known this village all her life; it had family connections.
Martin, Richard. Ink in Her Blood: The Life and Crime Fiction of Margery Allingham. UMI Research Press.
72-4
Textual Features Catherine Marsh
Here CM tells the life of a railway worker named Thomas Ward who left home for the job at nineteen years of age and never returned, although he continued to write to his family and...
Textual Features Catherine Marsh
This accident highlighted the unsafe conditions that the navvies worked under, for while fastening the wagons together, the engine was suddenly brought up without the signal having been given.
Marsh, Catherine. A Light for the Line. J. Nisbet and Co.
39
CM reported that Thomas...

Timeline

1 January 1923: Britain's Railways Act of 1921 brought into...

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1 January 1923

Britain's Railways Act of 1921 brought into being a grouping of the Big Four railways, with statutory provisions for collective bargaining on wages.

1 May 1928: The world's longest non-stop railway run,...

Building item

1 May 1928

The world's longest non-stop railway run, operated by the London and North Eastern Railway , opened between London and Edinburgh.

1931: A car ferry across the English Channel began...

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1931

A car ferry across the English Channel began operation.

1 January 1948: Railways in Britain were nationalised: the...

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1 January 1948

Railways in Britain were nationalised: the Big Four railways were merged as national property under the Transport Act, as British Rail .

2 November 1949: The first double-decked train in England...

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2 November 1949

The first double-decked train in England went into service with the Southern Region of British Rail .

5 November 1993: The Railways Act initiated the privatization...

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5 November 1993

The Railways Act initiated the privatization of British Rail , after rather less than fifty years in state or public ownership. Shares were offered in the new Railtrack in 1996.

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