british rail travel news Archives - TravelsFinders.Com ® http://travelsfinders.com/tag/british-rail-travel-news Tue, 28 Mar 2017 15:18:12 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.8 RAIL TRAVEL IN BRITAIN http://travelsfinders.com/rail-travel-in-britain.html http://travelsfinders.com/rail-travel-in-britain.html#respond Fri, 23 Sep 2016 04:16:00 +0000 http://travelsfinders.com/?p=221126 While Amtrak is a shadowy ghost of the once proud rail system in the United States, British Rail is still the prime mover of people in the United Kingdom. The trains are frequent and usually on time. The average speed of Amtrak is less than forty mph; that of BritRail is seventy-eight mph. A few crack trains, the Intercity 125’s, run between Edinburgh, Glasgow, and London. The five-hundred-mile run between Edinburgh (pronounced Edinboro) can be done in under five hours, with the trains reaching speeds of 125 mph. On the negative side, most of the cars other than on the

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