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Tinsley, James,
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Tiptree,
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toilet breaks,
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Tonbridge,
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Torquay,
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Torr, Cecil,
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Tottenham,
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TPOs,
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Trades Union Congress,
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traffic management,
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train paths,
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Train Protection and Warning System (TPWS),
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trainspotting,
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trams,
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‘tramways',
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Transport Acts,
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travel agents,
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travelcards,
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Travellers Fare,
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Trent Valley Railway,
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trespassers,
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Trevithick, Richard,
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troop trains,
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military trains

tunnels,
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Turkey,
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turkey specials,
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turnpikes,
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,
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Tyndall Centre for Climate Change,
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Tyne, river,
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Tyne Mercury
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Tyneside,
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typists, travelling,
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U-boats,
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Ufton Nervet accident,
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unions,
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; and wartime,
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; and women's employment,
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; post-war position,
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; and nationalization,
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; and General Strike,
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; opposition to closures,
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; under BR,
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United Pointsmen and Signalmen,
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United States of America,
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Unwin, Philip,
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Usk valley,
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Vaughan, Adrian,
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Vauxhall Bridge station,
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Verney Junction,
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Versailles,
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Victoria, Queen,
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Victoria station,
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Vienna,
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Vignoles, Charles,
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Virgin Trains,
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Voyager trains,
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Waddington, David,
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Wadebridge,
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wagon ways,
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Wales,
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; iron works,
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; railway network,
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; coal,
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; and amalgamation,
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; branch line,
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Walker, Sir Herbert,
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Walsall,
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Walthamstow,
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Wandle valley,
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Wandsworth,
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War Department railways,
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Warburton, Ivor,
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Ware,
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Ware, Hadham & Buntingford Railway,
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Wareham,
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Warrenpoint,
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Warrington,
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Warrington & Newton Railway,
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Washington DC,
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water troughs,
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Waterloo & City Railway,
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Waterloo Necropolis station,
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Waterloo station,
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Watford,
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Watkin, Edward,
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; and Great Central Railway,
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; character,
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; and Channel Tunnel,
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Watt, James,
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Watt, James (son),
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wayleave,
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Wear, river,
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Weaver, river,
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Wellington, Duke of,
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Welshpool,
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Welwyn Garden City,
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Wembley,
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West Coast main line,
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; and railway races,
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; and accidents,
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; expresses,
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; electrification,
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; work stops,
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; tilting trains,
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; and privatization,
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West End & Crystal Palace Railway,
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West Highland Railway,
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West Indies,
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‘West of England Express',
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Western Region,
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,
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Westinghouse, George,
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Weston, Clevedon & Portishead Railway,
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Weston-super-Mare,
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Weymouth,
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,
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wheels, flanged,
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,
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; cogged,
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; steel tyres,
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whistles, steam,
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Whitelaw, William,
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Whiteley, William,
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Whitstable,
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Wick,
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Wigan,
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; Wallgate station,
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Wilkinson, Norman,
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Willetts, David,
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Wilson, Harold,
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Windsor,
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Wisonsin Central,
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Wojtczak, Helena,
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Woking,
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Wolverhampton,
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Wolverton,
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Wood Green,
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Woodhead tunnel,
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Woolwich,
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workmen's trains,
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Worrall, Terry,
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Wright brothers,
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Wylam,
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Yarmouth,
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Yelverton,
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Yeovil,
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York,
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; London services,
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; and electrification,
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York & North Midland Railway,
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York, Newcastle & Berwick Railway,
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Yorkshire,
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; coal,
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Ypres,
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Zeppelins,
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LIST OF MAPS AND ILLUSTRATIONS

MAPS

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The railway network in Great Britain in 1851.
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The railway network in north-east England in 1907.
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The railway network in north-east Scotland in 1947 and 2007.

ILLUSTRATIONS

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Lithograph commemorating the opening of the Stockton & Darlington Railway, 1825. National Railway Museum.
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The opening of the Liverpool & Manchester Railway, 1830. National Railway Museum.
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‘The Pleasures of the Rail-Road', 1831. National Railway Museum.
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Caricature of John Bull, 1836. Hulton Archive/Getty Images.
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Railway carriage classes, 1837. Hulton Archive/Getty Images.
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Ladies ticket, 1840. National Railway Museum.
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Open carriages crossing the Bridgwater Canal, 1830s. Milepost 92½.
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Bristol Temple Meads station, 1846. Milepost 92½.
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‘Battle of the Gauges', 1846. Milepost 92½.
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‘Unemployed Horses', c. 1850. Hulton Archive/Getty Images.
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Brunel and Stephenson, 1857. National Railway Museum.
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Primrose Hill Tunnel, c. 1840. Milepost 92½.
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Construction of St Pancras, 1868. Milepost 92½.
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Tay Bridge disaster, 1879. Milepost 92½.
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Construction of the Forth Railway Bridge, 1880s. G. W. Wilson Collection, Aberdeen Library.
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‘Modern Advertising', 1874. Milepost 92½.
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Wealthy rail passengers, 1876. National Railway Museum.
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‘Summer and Winter Resorts' poster, 1897. National Railway Museum.
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Locomotives on the Highland Railway, 1890s. Milepost 92½.
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Midland Railway porters unloading milk, 1890. National Railway Museum.
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Train driver, 1907. Hulton-Deutsch Collection/Corbis.
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Women railway workers, 1917. National Railway Museum.
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Ambulance train, c. 1915. Imperial War Museum.
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Accident at Penistone, south Yorkshire, 1916. Arthur Trevena Collection.
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Strike-breaking staff and volunteers, 1926. National Railway Museum.
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Southern Railway poster, 1926. Milepost 92½.
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Interior of a London, Midland & Scottish refreshment car, 1920s. Milepost 92½.
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‘Take Me By The Flying Scotsman' poster, 1932. Milepost 92½.
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‘So Swiftly Home' poster, 1932. National Railway Museum.
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A4 Pacific locomotives, c. 1938. Milepost 92½.
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Post Office carriage, 1935. National Railway Museum.
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Repair gang, 1940. Bert Hardy/Picture Post/Getty Images.
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Evacuees, c. 1940. Fox Photos/Getty Images.
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‘Food, Shells and Fuel Must Come First' poster, 1940. National Railway Museum.
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Breakdown crew, 1943. Harry Todd/Fox Photos/Hulton Archive/Getty Images.
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Miners waiting for a train, 1950s. Milepost 92½.
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Holidaymakers queuing at Waterloo, 1946. Fox Photos/Getty Images.
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British Railways' coat of arms, 1950s. Milepost 92½.
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Diesel train, 1960s. Milepost 92½.
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Train liveries, mid-1990s. Milepost 92½.
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‘Intercity Sleepers' poster, 1985. National Railway Museum.
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Norwich station, 2006. ATOC/Paul Bigland.
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Eurostar train at St Pancras, 2007. London & Continental Railways/TROIKA.

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