StephenHunter
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What was the first British railway company to have a website?
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First railway company to have a website
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This has been discussed a little before, in a manner of speaking,
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British Rail had a website.
Did British Rail ever have a website?
Looking at old website I was wondering did British Rail ever have a website before it was privatised? The earliest one I have found for a rail company is GNER, Central Trains and Virgin Trains all from from 1998 as well as Railtrack from 1997 but I can't find anything for British Rail.
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British Rail had a website.
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This website also links to a Railtrack website, so they also had one around this time, it's also got pages for the ToCs/shadow ToCs so would they have each had individual websites at that point or this one shared one?
This has been discussed a little before, in a manner of speaking,
Did British Rail ever have a website?
Looking at old website I was wondering did British Rail ever have a website before it was privatised? The earliest one I have found for a rail company is GNER, Central Trains and Virgin Trains all from from 1998 as well as Railtrack from 1997 but I can't find anything for British Rail.
British Rail had a website.
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As far as I can see those links point to a 1997 post-privatisation site operated by BR Business Systems (which at that point was part of Sema).
I don't recall British Rail proper ever operating it's own external website but I could be wrong. ( And it might well have had it's own intranet of some sort.)
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DeutscheBahn had an English language website on which it was possible to purchase BR tickets before you could buy them online from BR....think it listed InterCity timetables as well
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bahn.hafas.de had UK timetables in their journey planner a number of years before the UK had a planner.
BR didn't have a website - rail.co.uk was post-privatisation.
BR didn't have a website - rail.co.uk was post-privatisation.
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