Parliamentary train
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parliamentary-train-176-9299550
title:
Parliamentary train
text:
A parliamentary train was a passenger service operated in the United Kingdom to comply with the Railway Regulation Act 1844 that required train companies to provide inexpensive and basic rail transport for less affluent passengers. The act required that at least one such service per day be run on every railway route in the UK. Such trains are no longer a legal requirement. The term's meaning has completely changed, to describe train services that continue to be run with reduced frequency, often
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Railway service run solely to meet a legal requirement
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parliamentary_train
date created:
2006-01-09T17:04:29Z
date modified:
2024-09-03T17:01:08Z
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