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    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...
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  • 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...
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    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...
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  • 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...
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    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...
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    railway carriages are British Rail's second design of carriages. They were built by British Rail workshops (from 1969 British Rail Engineering Limited (BREL))...
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    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...
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    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...
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    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...
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    Wokingham railway station (category Use British English from August 2013)
    to Wokingham and Reading. In 1973 British Railways replaced Wokingham's station building with one built with CLASP prefabricated concrete sections. In...
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    Longfield railway station (category Use British English from August 2015)
    demolished in 1971 and replaced by the contemporary CLASP prefabricated design favoured by British Rail. Usage of the station has grown considerably in the...
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    Forest Hill railway station (category Rail transport stations in London fare zone 3)
    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...
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    Kidbrooke railway station (category Rail transport stations in London fare zone 3)
    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...
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    Railway brake (redirect from Clasp brake)
    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...
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    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...
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    The Indian Army during British rule, also referred to as the British Indian Army, was the main military force of India until national independence in...
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    West Norwood railway station (category Rail transport stations in London fare zone 3)
    current third rail DC system on 3 March 1929. The original station buildings were demolished in 1969, and replaced with prefabricated CLASP buildings. All...
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    Meopham railway station (category Use British English from August 2015)
    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...
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    Sumer Singh of Jodhpur (category British Army General List officers)
    Star (with August - November 1914 clasp) British War Medal Victory Medal Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire, (KBE) - awarded 1918 Grand...
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    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...
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    Lower Sydenham railway station (category Rail transport stations in London fare zone 4)
    was provided by Network SouthEast in 1991. Following privatisation of British Rail on 1 April 1994, the infrastructure at Lower Sydenham station became...
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  • (1987–1989) Sir John Egan (1990–1999) Michael Hodgkinson (1999–2003) Mike Clasper (2003–2006) Stephen Nelson (2006–2008) Colin Matthews (2008–2014) John...
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  • Tramway track (category Use British English from March 2024)
    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...
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    Incorporating a number of new developments in British steam locomotive technology, they were amongst the first British designs to use welding in the construction...
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    Crayford railway station (category Rail transport stations in London fare zone 6)
    1968 the station buildings were completely rebuilt using pre-fabricated CLASP structures. The signal box closed in November 1970. The footbridge remains...
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    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...
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    Belmont railway station (Sutton) (category Rail transport stations in London fare zone 5)
    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...
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    Hassocks railway station (category Use British English from July 2015)
    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...
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    the brigade were eligible for the Army of Occupation Medal with Germany clasp. Because of the legal status of West Berlin, it was technically occupied...
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    Sexuality of James VI and I (category Use British English from October 2022)
    and wilful"; and John Hacket wrote that James would, from his mid-teens, "clasp someone [...] in the Embraces of his great Love", and that this began first...
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