scheme, similar to CLASP, was also developed for use by schools. Its buildings made use of brick and timber instead of concrete. British Rail used it twice...

Look up clasp, clasper, or clasps in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Clasp, clasper or CLASP may refer to: Book clasp, fastener for a book cover Folding...

Michael Clasper CBE (born 21 April 1953) is the British former chairman of Coats Group plc (formerly Guinness Peat Group plc (GPG)) and the former chairman...

performance disc brake system, in place of the clasp brakes used on traditional stock. To prove the concept, British Rail produced a prototype. The framework of...

British Railways (BR), which from 1965 traded as British Rail, was a state-owned company that operated most rail transport in Great Britain from 1948...

of CLASP block at Nottinghamshire County Hall, 2017 Between the late 1960s and the early 1970s, the CLASP system was implemented by British Rail, particularly...

railway carriages are British Rail's second design of carriages. They were built by British Rail workshops (from 1969 British Rail Engineering Limited (BREL))...

The British Rail Class 373, known in France as the TGV TMST and branded by Eurostar as the Eurostar e300, is a French designed and Anglo-French built electric...

The British Rail Mark 3 is a type of passenger carriage developed in response to growing competition from airlines and the car in the 1970s. A variant...

demolished in 1971 and replaced by the contemporary CLASP prefabricated design favoured by British Rail. Usage of the station has grown considerably in the...

to Wokingham and Reading. In 1973 British Railways replaced Wokingham's station building with one built with CLASP prefabricated concrete sections. In...

buildings here remained in place until 1972, when they were replaced with a CLASP prefabricated structure, and this in turn was replaced in 1994 by a brown-brick...

II but were patched up and survived until British Rail demolished them in 1972 and built a much smaller CLASP system-built prefabricated station building...

linked carriages and to be effective on vehicles left without a prime mover. Clasp brakes are one type of brakes historically used on trains. In the earliest...

station building is a prefabricated building erected in 1971 to British Rail's CLASP design. The station has a ticket office which is open during the...

1968 the station buildings were completely rebuilt using pre-fabricated CLASP structures. The signal box closed in November 1970. The footbridge remains...

closed as a result. In 1972 the timber structure was replaced by a modern "CLASP" type structure. On 28 September 1975 the control of the signalling was...

Battle of Britain Sunday commemoration, supported a Battle of Britain clasp for issue to the pilots in 1945 and, from 1945, Battle of Britain Week. The...

Services through Deal were electrified using the 3rd rail system at 750 volts DC as Phase 2 of British Rail's Kent Coast Electrification Scheme. Some electric...

because of the race traffic, and was electrified on 17 June 1928. A modern CLASP (pre-fabricated concrete) building was erected in the 1970s (this has since...

Bridge now links the Scandinavian road and rail networks to those of Western Europe. In both Great Britain and Ireland, the Continent is widely and generally...

current third rail DC system on 3 March 1929. The original station buildings were demolished in 1969, and replaced with prefabricated CLASP buildings. All...

to the British railway authorities by conforming with the size and weight of the BR 5MT Class 4-6-0 locomotives that have operated on British main lines...

both British India and the princely states, which could also have their own armies. As stated in the Imperial Gazetteer of India, the "British Government...

on iron columns. The station was demolished in 1973 by British Rail and replaced with a CLASP structure which was described as "truly awful". In 2006...

Tramway track is used on tramways or light rail operations. As with standard rail tracks, tram tracks have two parallel steel rails, the distance between...

Star (with August - November 1914 clasp) British War Medal Victory Medal Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire, (KBE) - awarded 1918 Grand...

in 5 deaths and 126 injuries. Kidbrooke station was rebuilt in 1972 as a CLASP prefabricated structure. This was replaced by a brick construction in 1994...

SouthEast until the privatisation of British Rail. In the 1970s, the station was redesigned by Nigel Wikeley in the typical CLASP manner, with a long and low design...

complete by November 1971; the replacement single-storey prefabricated CLASP structure opened in 1972 immediately south of the old building. Contractors...