'''British Rail''' (in full, the British Railways Board) was the nationalised railway of[[Great Britain]] from 1948 until the system was privatised piecemeal in the 1990s. It included almost all the standard gauge railways in Great Britain, with the exception of the [[London Underground]], the [[Tyne and Wear Metro]], and some industrial and colliery lines; railways in [[Northern Ireland]] were run by a separate authority. | '''British Rail''' (in full, the British Railways Board) was the nationalised railway of[[Great Britain]] from 1948 until the system was privatised piecemeal in the 1990s. It included almost all the standard gauge railways in Great Britain, with the exception of the [[London Underground]], the [[Tyne and Wear Metro]], and some industrial and colliery lines; railways in [[Northern Ireland]] were run by a separate authority. |