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    The impact of the privatisation of British Rail has been the subject of much debate, with the stated benefits including improved customer service, and...
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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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    Britain Impact of the privatisation of British Rail Renationalisation of British Rail Great British Railways "Bring Back British Rail". 30 July 2009. Slawson...
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  • affected. History of rail transport in Great Britain 1995 to date Impact of the privatisation of British Rail Renationalisation of British Rail Campaign to...
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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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    British Rail Campaign to Bring Back British Rail Campaign to Electrify Britain's Railways Impact of the privatisation of British Rail Privatisation of...
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    2020, with rail franchising being effectively abolished in May 2021. The system was created as part of the privatisation of British Rail, the former state-owned...
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  • Privatization (redirect from Privatisation)
    (rendered privatisation in British English) can mean several different things, most commonly referring to moving something from the public sector into the private...
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  • Pearson as Eve Impact of the privatisation of British Rail Wikiquote has quotations related to The Navigators (film). The Navigators at IMDb The Navigators...
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    Gourvish, Terry. British Rail 1974–1997: From Integration to Privatisation (Oxford UP, 2002). Gourvish, Terence R. "A British Business Elite: the chief executive...
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    services into London.[citation needed] Following the impact of the privatisation of British Rail in the late 1990s, several other diesel–hydraulic DMU families...
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    the United Kingdom during the privatisation of British Rail in the late 1990s. Amid the privatisation of British Rail during the mid 1990s, Virgin submitted...
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    during the mid-1990s; it was also used for a time in the post-privatisation era. As a result of British Rail's privatisation in the mid 1990s, the Class...
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  • 1993 Railways Act 2005 Privatisation of British Rail Impact of the privatisation of British Rail Railway nationalization Rail transport agencies Railway...
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    Trains was formed out of the privatisation of British Rail and operated the InterCity routes from London Paddington to the west of England. In 1998 FirstGroup...
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  • Railtrack (category Privatisation of British Rail)
    It was created as part of the privatisation of British Rail, listed on the London Stock Exchange, and was a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index. In 2002...
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    Patrick McLoughlin (category Members of the Order of the Companions of Honour)
    impact of the privatisation of British Rail, saying that "Privatisation sparked a railway renaissance. Since 1993, passenger journeys have doubled in the UK...
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    Pacer was the operational name of the British Rail Classes 140, 141, 142, 143 and 144 diesel multiple unit railbuses, built between 1980 and 1987. They...
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    integrated into Network Rail's New Measurement Train. After the privatisation of British Rail the HST sets continued to be used. 193 of the 197 locomotives built...
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    figures below). This has coincided with the privatisation of British Rail, but the cause of this increase is unclear. The growth is partly attributed to a shift...
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    1978.2755. Archived from the original on 2 January 2013. "New opportunities for the railways: The privatisation of British Rail" (PDF). London: HMSO. July...
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  • at Harrow and Wealdstone Station in the London Midland Region, British Railways (PDF). Ministry of Transport, Rail Accident Investigation Branch. p. 1...
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    (JT42CWR). On the privatisation of British Rail's freight operations in 1996, Wisconsin Central Transportation Systems under the control of Ed Burkhardt...
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    The British Rail Class 150 Sprinter is a class of diesel multiple-unit passenger trains, developed and built by British Rail Engineering Limited at York...
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    The brand was adopted by National Express when it took over the franchise from British Rail during privatisation in 1997. The first unique ScotRail livery...
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  • Railway nationalisation (category Rail regulation)
    railway system. More recently, the international trend has been towards privatisation. In some areas, notably Great Britain, resultant problems with track...
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  • one of them had passed a signal at danger. With 31 people killed and 417 injured, it was one of the worst rail accidents in 20th-century British history...
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    The British Rail Class 142 Pacer are diesel multiple-unit passenger trains built for British Rail (BR) from 1985 to 1987. They were built with a high...
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    stations and British Transport Hotels. These roles fell away in 1985 with privatisation. The legislation was amended to reflect this in 1994. The first railway...
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  • Privatisation in Australia is the process of transiting a public service or good to the private sector through a variety of mechanisms that was commenced...
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