How do you make the trains run on time? British Rail adopted TOPS, a computer system born of IBM’s SAGE defense project, along with work from Standford and Southern Pacific Railroad. Before TOPS, ...
In the 1970s, the United Kingdom introduced the Advanced Passenger Train, a revolutionary design capable of reaching over 260 ...
In the late 1970s and early 1980s, Britain had one of the most exciting inter-city schedules anywhere in the world. Only Japan could seriously rival Britain for the sheer number of trains operated at ...