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UK Railways: a Brief History
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The Silver Jubilee - Britain's first streamlined train - London to Newcastle in four hours
Poster advertising LNER's new high speed service [Public Domain]
This section is designed to give an overview of the history of Britain's railways. Each section contains links to key documents and document groups.

Invention and Experiment: up to 1833

The Emerging Network: 1833 - 1843 (Coming Soon)

Railway Mania: 1843 - 1850 (Coming Soon)

Conflict and Amalgamation: 1914 - 1945 (Coming Soon)

The Nationalised Railway: 1948 - 1992

A New Direction?: 1992 - present day (Coming Soon)

 
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Investigation Report No. R2010 – 004: Malahide Viaduct Collapse on the Dublin to Belfast Line, on the 21st August 2009
 

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Accident Returns: Extract for the Accident at Peterborough on 28th April 1897
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Accident Returns: Extract for the Accident at Pitsea Junction on 5th June 1897
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Rail Accident Report: Collision on the Great Orme Tramway - 15 September 2009
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Accident Returns: Extract for the Accident between Doublebois and Bodmin Road on 16th April 1895
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Report of the Railway Electrification Committee (1927)
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added 16:00 on 01 Sep:
Anti-HS2 campaigner to walk route
A woman begins a quest to walk the entire route of the proposed HS2 rail link, as part of a protest ...>>>

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Casualty of weight loss surgery
A man who lost 12 stone after a gastric bypass has to be fed by tube because his body cannot cope wi...>>>

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Ships to trains
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