History of rail transport in Great Britain (English Wikipedia)

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The UK Department for Transport Archived 17 October 2004 at the Wayback Machine (DfT), specifically Table 6.1 from Transport Statistics Great Britain 2006 Archived 8 September 2008 at the Wayback Machine (4MB PDF file)
Strangleman, Tim (2002). "Nostalgia for Nationalisation – the Politics of Privatisation". Sociological Research Online. 7 (1): 92–105. doi:10.5153/sro.701. S2CID 144684740. Archived from the original on 5 December 2022. Retrieved 5 December 2022.
"EWS Railway - Company History". Archived from the original on 12 December 2006. Retrieved 26 November 2006.
"The great train sell-off: Who dunnit?". BBC News. 20 October 2000. Archived from the original on 5 December 2022. Retrieved 5 December 2022.
Butcher, Louise (24 March 2010). "Railways: Railtrack, 1994–2002" (PDF). parliament.uk. Archived (PDF) from the original on 19 December 2022. Retrieved 5 December 2022.
"Growth of 6.9% in 2010 takes demand for rail travel to new high levels". Association of Train Operating Companies. February 2011. Archived from the original on 25 February 2015. Retrieved 25 February 2015.
"Britain's railways now safest in Europe". Office of Road and Rail. Archived from the original on 15 December 2018. Retrieved 12 December 2015.
Pank, Philip (18 October 2010). "Rail safety 'still an issue' 10 years after Hatfield". The Times. p. 11. Archived from the original on 12 January 2021. Retrieved 22 August 2016.
"Accounting for Producer Needs: The case of Britain's rail infrastructure" (PDF). Centre for Management and Organisational History. p. 18. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 12 October 2015.

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