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Clock on The Exchange, Bristol, showing two minute hands, one for London time and one for Bristol time (GMT minus 11 minutes).. Railway time was the standardised time arrangement first applied by the Great Western Railway in England in November 1840, the first recorded occasion when different local mean times were synchronised and a single standard time applied.
The United Kingdom is a member of the International Union of Railways (UIC). The UIC country code for United Kingdom is 70. The UK has the 17th largest railway network in the world; despite many lines having closed in the 20th century, due to the Beeching cuts, it remains one of the densest networks.
The first compilation of railway timetables in the United Kingdom was produced in 1839 by George Bradshaw. Greater speeds and the need for more accurate timings led to the introduction of standard railway time in Great Western Railway timetables in 1840, when all their trains were scheduled to "London time", i.e. Greenwich Mean Time (GMT ...
The United Kingdom experimentally adopted Central European Time by maintaining Summer Time throughout the year from 1968 to 1971. [7] In a House of Lords debate, Richard Butler, 17th Viscount Mountgarret said that the change was welcomed at the time, but the experiment was eventually halted after a debate in 1971, [ 8 ] in which the outcome ...
Railway lines in England and Wales, as of 2010. This is a list of railway lines in Great Britain that are currently in operation, split by country and region.. There are a limited number of main inter-regional lines, with all but one entering Greater London. [1]
The British Rail Passenger Timetable, later the National Rail Timetable and now the Electronic National Rail Timetable (eNRT), is a document containing the times of all passenger rail services in Great Britain. It was first published by British Rail in 1974. [1]
Great Western Railway operates routes west of London including those towards south west England such as Wiltshire, Bristol, Cornwall, Gloucestershire, as well as Oxfordshire, Berkshire, Hereford and South Wales. The following is a simplified list of regular off-peak weekday service from the June 2024 timetables. [38]
Barking Riverside railway station; Barnstaple railway station; Barrow-in-Furness railway station; Barton-on-Humber railway station; Banbury railway station; Basingstoke railway station; Battersea Park railway station; Beckenham Junction station; Bedford railway station; Bedwyn railway station; Beverley railway station; Birmingham Moor Street ...