The British Rail Research Division was a division of the state-owned railway company British Rail (BR). It was charged with conducting research into improving...
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Leyland Experimental Vehicle (LEV) 1, was a joint project by the British Rail Research Division and Leyland Motors and used a Leyland National bus body mounted...
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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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carriage works for the British Rail Research Division for use as a track assessment unit. It is currently operated by Network Rail. It was built in 1987...
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vehicles were developed jointly by British Leyland and the British Rail Research Division. These were named Leyland Experimental Vehicles (LEVs) and consisted...
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by gas turbines, the only multiple unit so powered that was used by British Rail. The APT-E consisted of two driving power cars (PC1 and 2) and two trailer...
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'flexicoil' springs. Trials carried out under the direction of the British Rail Research Division proved successful and the modification was applied gradually...
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1982. 84009 saw further use in a new guise; it passed to the British Rail Research Division, and was rebuilt as an unpowered mobile load bank tester, to...
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Derby Works (category Rail transport in Derby)
Research Laboratory. Around 1964, this became part of a new British Rail Research Division, based in the purpose-built Railway Technical Centre, which...
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British Rail Engineering Limited (BREL) was the railway systems engineering subsidiary of British Rail. It was established on 1 January 1970 by the British...
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based on experimental work commissioned by the British government at the British Rail Research Division laboratory at Derby. Contracts were awarded in...
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The privatisation of British Rail was the process by which ownership and operation of the railways of Great Britain passed from government control into...
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to British and other European railway companies. In Continental Europe it is marketed as the EMD Class 66 (JT42CWR). On the privatisation of British Rail's...
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Institute, Japan British Rail Research Division, Derby This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Railway research. If an internal...
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Advanced Passenger Train (category British Rail brands)
Advanced Passenger Train (APT) was a tilting high speed train developed by British Rail during the 1970s and early 1980s, for use on the West Coast Main Line...
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The British Rail Class 60 is a class of Co-Co heavy freight diesel-electric locomotives built by Brush Traction. They are nicknamed Tugs by rail enthusiasts...
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designs, the British-designed Class 14, Hymek and Western types; these were all eventually withdrawn and replaced with more standard British Rail diesel-electric...
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The British Rail Class 90 is a type of electric locomotive. They were built for mixed-traffic duties, operating from 25 kV AC overhead lines and producing...
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Sealink (redirect from Sealink British Ferries)
Ltd). British Railways (BR), which from 1965 traded as British Rail, was a state-owned company that operated most rail transport in Great Britain from...
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Railway Technical Centre (category British Rail research and development)
headquarters of the British Railways Board and was built in the early 1960s. British Rail described it as the largest railway research complex in the world...
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staff and users), British Rail's only "Tube" service, was given over to London Underground upon the Privatisation of British Rail in 1994. The Southern...
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The British Rail Class 28 (Metro-Vick Type 2) diesel-electric locomotives, known variously as 'Metrovicks', 'Crossleys' or 'Co-Bos', were built under the...
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The British Rail Class 92 is a dual-voltage electric locomotive, which can run on 25 kV AC from overhead wires or 750 V DC from a third rail. It was designed...
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The British Rail Class 43 (HST) is the TOPS classification used for the InterCity 125 High Speed Train (formerly Classes 253 and 254) diesel-electric power...
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easier thanks to its first high-speed rail line". Travel. Associated Press. euronews. "Products". Stadler Rail. Archived from the original on 27 May 2017...
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was one of the six regions created on the formation of the nationalised British Railways (BR), and initially consisted of ex-London, Midland and Scottish...
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however the shed codes remained unchanged. List of British Rail TOPS depot codes Steam locomotives of British Railways Whitehouse, Patrick; Thomas, David St...
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High Speed Freight Vehicle (category British Rail research and development)
prototype four-wheeled rail vehicles which were fitted with various experimental suspensions developed by the British Rail Research Division in the late 1960s...
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Train reporting number (redirect from British Rail Headcode)
knowledge of the controller. Prior to this, trains operated by British Rail Research Division used the letter T. The letters X and Z are generally reserved...
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The Alchemist Discovering Phosphorus (category Use British English from February 2023)
Organisations Andrew Handyside & Co. British Rail Research Division Derby Philosophical Society Derby Exhibition (1839) People Alkmund P. P. Burdett D'Ewes...
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