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British Rail! What decade are you in? ...
Quote from: Mike_G on April 07, 2010, 09:14:32 pmBritish Rail! What decade are you in? ...Has anyone found a method to get rid of all that soot and steam from the glass canopies?
You'd have a job seeing as British Rail disappeared 15 years ago!
Quote from: Squeaky Clean. on April 08, 2010, 05:03:42 pmYou'd have a job seeing as British Rail disappeared 15 years ago!Not true BR still exists in one form - Between 1994 and 1997, British Rail was privatised. Ownership of the track and infrastructure passed to Railtrack; passenger operations were franchised to individual private-sector operators (originally there were 25 franchises); and the freight services sold outright (six companies were set up, but five of these were sold to the same buyer). The remaining obligations of British Rail were transferred to BRB (Residuary) Ltd. There are a lot of redundant stuctures around the country (Eg viaducts on closed lines) that no one wanted to take responsibilty for - they managed to offload a lot but still to this day there are assets owned by BR! (although of course in the case of the stations named Squeeks is right as they ceased to be owned and operated by BR long ago.)