British Rail
About British Rail
British Railways (BR), which from 1965 traded as British Rail, was a state-owned company that operated most rail transport in Great Britain from 1948 to 1997. Originally a trading brand of the Railway Executive of the British Transport Commission, it became an independent statutory corporation in January 1963, when it was formally renamed the British Railways Board.
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The coolest British Rail invention was the pub cars. In 1949, British Rail decided to launch carriages that were pubs — properly decked out, they went for mock Tudor design.
from No Such Thing As A Dolphin In An Escape Room, 2020-10-16 at 00:17:25 · read transcript
Other times British Rail came up
I'm going to say there is currently a horse working in and it sort of nibbles the plants at the edge of the track I wish that would be so good. No, it's they're not still in that they're not still in action Okay 1750 thank you 1967 no Charlie the last British rail shunting horse Could have a movie could have heard have heard Sergeant Pepper while in work.
587: No Such Thing As Chris Nibble, 2025-06-12 · listen
I feel like you should believe in me more. Look, as a physics graduate, I'm saying you are the most likely of the four of us to produce nuclear fusion, however. If you did do that, in a podcast 100 years from now, they would be able to say, did you know that actually we have British Rail to thank for nuclear fusion? It would be like EMI and the CT scanner all over again.
No Such Thing As A Dolphin In An Escape Room, 2020-10-16 · listen
I think he thought, he knew that the science didn't exist. I think he was trying to predict the future of where science would go. The idea I think British Rail saw this. This was a time when there was a lot of interest in space. They thought maybe let's get ahead of the game here and make sure if we suddenly discover all the things that he's predicted, sorry, not predicted, but needs that are not yet around.
No Such Thing As A Dolphin In An Escape Room, 2020-10-16 · listen
Because if I tomorrow managed to come up with a way of making nuclear fusion work. It can power things. I don't want to have to pay 20% to British Rail because they speculatively said that oh, we invented this thing. That is going to be in the future, James, if you do that, and I am not saying you will, I'm saying in fact that you won't. If you did do that, you infuse like a hundred years from now, sorry to cross your dreams.
343: No Such Thing As A Dolphin In An Escape Room, 2020-10-16 · listen
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No Such Thing As A Dolphin In An Escape Room put 3 places on the map.
- National Museum of Archaeology · Spain
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Coordinates: 52.0498, -0.7669