History of rail transport in Great Britain - Early public railways - Article Index

Encyclopedia - History Of Rail Transport In Great Britain: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Rail Transport In Great Britain - Railed Roads And Tramways 1676 To 1825
History of rail transport in Great Britain - Early rails. As early as 1676 railed roads were in use in Northumberland to ease the conve...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Rail Transport In Great Britain: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Rail Transport In Great Britain - The Railways In The Post-war World
In the post-war world, lifestyles underwent radical changes, cars became affordable to the masses, new road and motorways were built. The...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Rail Transport In Great Britain: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Rail Transport In Great Britain - The Modernisation Plan
The modernisation plan of the mid to late 1950s, was intended to bring the railway system kicking and screaming into the 20th century. Ho...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Rail Transport In Great Britain: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Rail Transport In Great Britain - The Beeching Era
For main article see Beeching axe. By the early 1960s the railways were running at a huge deficit, and patience with them by the governme...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Rail Transport In Great Britain: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Rail Transport In Great Britain - The 1980s
In the 1980s the government of Margaret Thatcher was famously hostile to the railways. In 1983 a civil servant named David Serpell unviel...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Rail Transport In Great Britain: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Rail Transport In Great Britain - The 1970s
The 1970s saw British Rail succesfully introduced high speed diesel train services in 1976 with the InterCity 125 High Speed Train (HST),...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Rail Transport In Great Britain: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Rail Transport In Great Britain - Nationalisation
The Transport Act 1947 nationalised all private forms of mass transport in Great Britain. The British Transport Commission (BTC) was form...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Rail Transport In Great Britain: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Rail Transport In Great Britain - Following The Grouping: 1923-1947
In the 16 years before the outbreak of WWII the new companies set about the tremendous task of rebuilding railways which had had little o...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Rail Transport In Great Britain: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Rail Transport In Great Britain - Further Progress
The financial success of these lines was beyond all expectations and interests in London and Birmingham soon planned to build two lines t...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Rail Transport In Great Britain: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Rail Transport In Great Britain - The Development Of The Railways 1825 To 1923
Two railways were the pioneers in railway development in England. History of rail transport in Great Britain - Liverpool and Manchester ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Rail Transport In Great Britain: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Rail Transport In Great Britain - Railway Mania
Although the Government was in favour of the development of trunk railways to stimulate economic recovery (in which they were tremendousl...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Rail Transport In Great Britain: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Rail Transport In Great Britain - Early Successes
The financial success of the early railways was phenomenal, as they had no real competition. The roads were still very slow and in poor c...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Rail Transport In Great Britain: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Rail Transport In Great Britain - Major Railway Companies In Great Britain
History of rail transport in Great Britain - English railways. Great Central Railway (GCR): before 1897 the GCR was called the Manches...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Rail Transport In Great Britain: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Rail Transport In Great Britain - The Grouping Period
During the First World War the whole system was taken under government control and run by the Railway Operating Division of the War Offic...   » Read the article