In 1915, at the height of the Great War, fears that Ireland may join the war against Britain increased. Under orders from the British Admiralty, the closest railways were ordered to become one single railway spanning from coast to coast. This railway could become the North Western Railway, which opened in August 1918. This is the story of the railway's construction and the engines who worked in those early years.

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British Railways (BR), which from 1965 traded as British Rail, was the state-owned company that operated the national rail system rail transport in Great Britain between 1948 and 1997. It was formed from the nationalisation of the "Big Four" British railway companies and lasted until the gradual privatisation of British Rail, in stages between 1994 and 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.