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Bristol & Exeter Railway,
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British Electric Traction,
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British Expeditionary Force,
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,
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British Rail,
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,
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,
ref3
,
ref4
,
ref5
,
ref6
,
ref7
; and Settle & Carlisle line,
ref8
,
ref9
; marketing,
ref10
,
ref11
; finances,
ref12
,
ref13
,
ref14
; workforce,
ref15
,
ref16
; industrial relations,
ref17
; reorganization,
ref18
; safety record,
ref19
; and privatization,
ref20

British Railways (BR),
ref1
,
ref2
,
ref3
;
and horses,
ref4
,
ref5
; interest payments,
ref6
; regions,
ref7
,
ref8
; staff numbers,
ref9
,
ref10
; and safety,
ref11
; switch from steam,
ref12
,
ref13
; freight wagons,
ref14
,
ref15
; livery and insignia,
ref16
; modernization programme,
ref17
,
ref18
; finances,
ref19
,
ref20
; route miles,
ref21
;
see also
British Rail

British Railways Board,
ref1
,
ref2
,
ref3

British Transport Commission,
ref1
,
ref2
,
ref3
,
ref4
,
ref5
,
ref6
,
ref7
,
ref8

British Transport Hotels,
ref1

Brixton,
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broad gauge,
ref1
,
ref2
,
ref3
,
ref4
,
ref5
;
see also
standard gauge

Broad Street station,
ref1
,
ref2

broccoli trains,
ref1

Bromley,
ref1

Brontë sisters,
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Brookwood,
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Broun, Sir Richard,
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Brown, Ernest,
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Brown, Patrick,
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Broxbourne & Hertford Railway,
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Brunel, Isambard Kingdom,
ref1
,
ref2

Brunel, Marc,
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Brussels,
ref1
,
ref2
,
ref3

Buchan, John,
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Buckinghamshire,
ref1
,
ref2

buffet cars,
ref1
,
ref2
;
see also
dining (restaurant) cars

Buntingford,
ref1

Burkhardt, Ed,
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Burstall, Timothy,
ref1

buses,
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,
ref2
,
ref3
,
ref4
,
ref5
; alternative to branch lines,
ref6
,
ref7
,
ref8
; competition with railways,
ref9
,
ref10
; coordination with railways,
ref11

Bushey,
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butter,
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,
ref2

Buxton, Sidney,
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Byers, Stephen,
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by-laws, railway,
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C2C,
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cable operation,
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,
ref2
,
ref3
,
ref4
,
ref5
,
ref6
,
ref7

Caledonian Railway,
ref1
,
ref2
; and railway races,
ref3
; industrial relations,
ref4
; and Quintinshill accident,
ref5
; and amalgamation,
ref6

Cambrian Railway,
ref1

Cambridge,
ref1
,
ref2
,
ref3
;
see also
Oxford–Cambridge line

Cambridgeshire,
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Camden Town,
ref1
,
ref2

Camel, river,
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Cameron Highlanders,
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Cameroon,
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Canada,
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canals,
ref1
,
ref2
,
ref3
,
ref4
,
ref5
,
ref6
; and opposition to railways,
ref7
,
ref8
; decline of,
ref9

Cannon Street station,
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,
ref2

Canterbury,
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,
ref2

Canterbury & Whitstable Railway,
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Capitals Limited
,
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Cardiff,
ref1
,
ref2
,
ref3

Cardwell, Edward,
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Carlisle,
ref1
,
ref2
,
ref3
;
see also
Settle & Carlisle line

Carmarthenshire,
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carriages,
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,
ref2
,
ref3
,
ref4
,
ref5
; first-class,
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,
ref7
,
ref8
; lighting,
ref9
,
ref10
,
ref11
,
ref12
,
ref13
; second-class,
ref14
,
ref15
,
ref16
; smoking,
ref17
,
ref18
,
ref19
; slam-door,
ref20
; fourth-class,
ref21
; royal,
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; building,
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,
ref24
; branch line,
ref25
; third-class,
ref26
,
ref27
; deluxe,
ref28
; heating,
ref29
,
ref30
,
ref31
,
ref32
; sprung-wheel,
ref33
; corridors,
ref34
,
ref35
,
ref36
,
ref37
; toilets,
ref38
,
ref39
; clerestory roofs,
ref40
,
ref41
; express,
ref42
; and wartime,
ref43
; LMS,
ref44
; Southern,
ref45
,
ref46
; women's,
ref47
; open-plan,
ref48
; postwar,
ref49
; scrapped,
ref50
; air-conditioning,
ref51
,
ref52
,
ref53
,
ref54
; Marks 1 and 2,
ref55

cars,
ref1
,
ref2
,
ref3
,
ref4
,
ref5
,
ref6
; competition with rail,
ref7
,
ref8
; age of,
ref9
,
ref10

Carstairs,
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Carter Paterson,
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Castle, Barbara,
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Castle Cary,
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Catch Me Who Can
,
ref1

Catesby tunnel,
ref1

cattle,
ref1
,
ref2
,
ref3

cemeteries,
ref1

Central Electricity Board,
ref1

Chambers, Doctor,
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Channel Islands,
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Channel Tunnel,
ref1
,
ref2
,
ref3

Channel Tunnel Rail Link,
ref1
,
ref2
,
ref3

Charing Cross station,
ref1

chariots,
ref1

Charles II, King,
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Charlotte Dundas
(steam-powered boat),
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Chartist disturbances,
ref1

Chat Moss,
ref1
,
ref2
,
ref3
,
ref4
,
ref5

Chatham,
ref1
,
ref2
,
ref3

cheese,
ref1
,
ref2
,
ref3

Cheltenham,
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Cheltenham Flyer
,
ref1

Chepstow,
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Cheshire,
ref1
,
ref2
,
ref3

Cheshunt,
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Chester,
ref1
,
ref2
,
ref3

Chester & Crewe Railway,
ref1

Chester & Holyhead Railway,
ref1

Chichester,
ref1
,
ref2

Chigwell,
ref1

Chiltern,
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Chippenham,
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Chislehurst,
ref1
,
ref2

cholera,
ref1

Christie, Agatha,
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Church Fenton,
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Churchill, Winston,
ref1
,
ref2
,
ref3
,
ref4

Churchward, George,
ref1
,
ref2

City & South London Railway,
ref1
,
ref2

City of Truro
,
ref1
,
ref2
,
ref3

Clapham,
ref1

Clapham Junction accident,
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Clayton tunnel accident,
ref1

clergy,
ref1
,
ref2

Clifton Suspension Bridge,
ref1

closures,
ref1
,
ref2
,
ref3
;
see also
Beeching cuts

Clyde, river,
ref1

coaches, gas-powered,
ref1

coal,
ref1
,
ref2
,
ref3
,
ref4
,
ref5
; prices,
ref6
,
ref7
,
ref8
,
ref9
,
ref10
,
ref11
; versus coke,
ref12
; industry,
ref13
,
ref14
,
ref15
; cheap or free,
ref16
; and wartime,
ref17
,
ref18
; and strikes,
ref19
,
ref20
; and BR losses,
ref21

coal trains,
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,
ref2
,
ref3
,
ref4

coal wagons,
ref1
,
ref2

Coalbrookdale,
ref1

Coalville,
ref1

Coghlan, Francis,
ref1

Colchester,
ref1

Coleman, Terry,
ref1

Comet
,
ref1

commuter services,
ref1
,
ref2
,
ref3
,
ref4
,
ref5
,
ref6
,
ref7
,
ref8
; and electrification,
ref9
,
ref10
,
ref11
; and Southern Railway,
ref12
; and strikes,
ref13

Compagnie du Chemin de Fer du Nord,
ref1
,
ref2

Connex,
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Conservative Party,
ref1
,
ref2
,
ref3
,
ref4
; and privatization,
ref5
,
ref6
,
ref7

Conway,
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Cook, Thomas,
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Cooper, Sir Astley,
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Co-operative Wholesale Society,
ref1

Corinth, Isthmus of,
ref1

Corn Laws,
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,
ref2

Cornish Riviera
,
ref1

Cornwall,
ref1
,
ref2
,
ref3
,
ref4
,
ref5
,
ref6
,
ref7

Coronation
,
ref1

Coronation Scot
,
ref1

cottages, railway,
ref1
,
ref2

cotton,
ref1
,
ref2
,
ref3

Coulsdon,
ref1

County Donegal Railways,
ref1

County Durham,
ref1
,
ref2

courts of inquiry,
ref1

Covent Garden,
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Coventry,
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Craven Arms,
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Creevey, Thomas,
ref1
,
ref2
,
ref3

Crewe,
ref1
,
ref2
,
ref3
,
ref4

cricket,
ref1

Crimean War,
ref1
,
ref2

Crippen, Dr,
ref1

Cromarty Firth,
ref1

Cromford & High Peak Railway,
ref1

cross-Channel steamers,
ref1
,
ref2
,
ref3

CrossCountry,
ref1

Crossrail,
ref1

Croydon,
ref1
,
ref2
; airport,
ref3

Croydon Tramlink,
ref1

Crystal Palace,
ref1
,
ref2
,
ref3
,
ref4
,
ref5

Cubitt, Lewis,
ref1

Cugnot, Nicolas,
ref1

Cumbria,
ref1

cut-offs,
ref1

Cycloped
,
ref1

Daily Telegraph
,
ref1

Dalhousie, Lord,
ref1

Dalton, Hugh,
ref1

Dandridge, Cecil,
ref1

dandy cars,
ref1

Darling, Alistair,
ref1

Darlington, Earl of,
ref1

Darlington,
ref1
,
ref2
,
ref3
,
ref4
,
ref5

Dartford,
ref1
,
ref2

Dartmoor,
ref1

Dawlish,
ref1

Day Scotch Express,
ref1

Dee, river,
ref1

Deeside,
ref1

demolitions,
ref1
,
ref2
,
ref3
,
ref4

Denison, Edmund,
ref1
,
ref2

Denmark,
ref1

department stores,
ref1

Derby, Lord,
ref1
,
ref2

Derby,
ref1
,
ref2
,
ref3
,
ref4
,
ref5
; railway hotel,
ref6
; workshops,
ref7
,
ref8

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