Railway Britain - Celebrating Britain's Railways: Past, Present and Future

Railway Britain

CELEBRATING BRITAIN'S RAILWAYS: PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE

(Website Est. 2008)

www.railwaybritain.co.uk

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Photo: Great Western in Profile. A wonderful Great Western line up at Didcot on the 5th May 2007 at the GWS 40th Anniversary Gala. Left to Right: 3440 City of Truro, 5051 Earl Bathurst, 5900 Hinderton Hall, 6998 Burton Agnes Hall and GWR Prairie No 4144. (Alex Naughton Collection)

Welcome to the Railway Britain website celebrating Britain's rich and diverse railway history both past and present.

We hope that our websites will inspire and encourage you to explore further the rich transport history of our great nation.

If you have any comments about this website please feel free to contact me, Alex Naughton, via e-mail at:

ajnaughton@hotmail.com

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This Website is developed using historical information researched by the author from a wide variety of sources, including books, magazines and websites etc too numerous to mention or credit individually. All photographs used on this website are from the author's own collections. While we try our very best to ensure that any apparent "copyrights" are not breached, due to limited time and resources we cannot always guarantee that inadvertently mistakes may occur. But should such inadvertent mistakes come to light we will do our best to cooperate. Unfortunately we cannot guarantee to give credit to all information sources used. We hope you understand.

This website does not intend to infringe any copyright and all reasonable steps are taken to ensure this to the best of our ability with limited resources. It is believed that all the information contained in this website, apart from those articles written by the author, are or use information freely available within the public domain or freely given for use on this website. All information on this website is purely intended to help promote the story of Britain's railways to a wider audience and to transport enthusiasts and is entirely not-for-profit and is not intended for commercial gain. We warmly welcome any donations of photographs or information to this website on the basis that no financial reward is asked for or given as this website is purely for charitable not-for-profit purposes.

Finally unless otherwise stated all the photographs and pictures are from the author's personal collection. If you wish to use them on other websites or literature for charitable not-for-profit and non-commercial purposes then you are free to do so subject to an appropriate credit being given, and it would be nice if you let me know first.

GENERAL INFORMATION
About Us	Railway Ancillary Services
Named Trains	Boat Trains
Today's Named Trains	Railway Poems
"Through the Window" Rail Guides

THE STORY OF BRITAIN'S RAILWAYS
Introduction	The Railway Pioneers (1603 - 1830)
The Railway Mania (1830 - 1860)	The Pre-Grouping Railways (1860 - 1923)
The Big Four (1923 - 1948)	Nationalisation and British Rail (1948 - 1998)
Merseyrail Electrics	Tyneside Electrics
Southern Electric	The Pullman Car Company
Privatisation	London & Continental Railways
Eurostar	Eurotunnel

HERITAGE RAILWAYS
Attractions Directory	Organisations Directory
Railtour Operators	Notable Overseas Heritage Railway Attractions
Regular Summer Steam Railtours

MODERN RAILWAYS
Franchised Train Operators	Open Access Train Operators
Freight Operators	Rail Industry Organisations
Rolling Stock Companies (ROSCOS)	Rolling Stock Spot Hire Companies
Engineering Companies	Community Railways

London 2012 Olympic Games

Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games

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      Photo: A magnificent Great Western line up at Didcot on the 5th May 2007 at the GWS 40th Anniversary Gala.
      Left to Right: Taff Vale No 85, 6024 King Edward I, 3440 City of Truro, 5900 Hinderton Hall and 6998 Burton Agnes Hall
      (Alex Naughton Collection)

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Photo: An impressive line up at Crewe Works on the 11th September 2005 - One Duke, Two Duchesses and Two Princesses. Left to Right: 71000 Duke of Gloucester, 6233 Duchess of Sutherland, 46229 Duchess of Hamilton, 46203 Princess Margaret Rose and 6201 Princess Elizabeth (Alex Naughton Collection)

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Photo: The pride of the LNER is lined up at the National Railway Museum York on the 5th July 2008 for the A4 Great Reunion. Left to Right: 60009 Union of South Africa, 60007 Sir Nigel Gresley, 60019 Bittern and 4468 Mallard. (Alex Naughton Collection)

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Photo: The Southern Railway's finest is lined up at Eastleigh Works 100 on the 23rd May 2009.
Left to Right: 35005 Canadian Pacific, 34070 Manston and 34028 Eddystone. (Alex Naughton Collection)

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