page_title: ABC Rail Guide
hierarchical_section_title: ABC Rail Guide
caption_attribution_description: English: The ABC Alphabetical Railway Guide No. 847, April 1924
context_page_description: The ABC Rail Guide, first published in 1853 as The ABC or Alphabetical Railway Guide, was a monthly railway timetable guide to the United Kingdom that was organised on an alphabetical basis that made it easier to use than its competitor Bradshaw's Guide which had a reputation for difficulty.
  It was one of many railway timetable guides published during the expansion of the British railway network in the Victorian era, had many imitators, and was seen as symbolic of the more regulated nature of life in the industrial era.
  In 1936, the guides were a plot element in Agatha Christie's detective novel The A.B.C. Murders. After a number of changes of publisher in the later twentieth century during which it was renamed the OAG Rail Guide, it ceased publication in 2007.
context_section_description: The ABC Rail Guide, first published in 1853 as The ABC or Alphabetical Railway Guide, was a monthly railway timetable guide to the United Kingdom that was organised on an alphabetical basis that made it easier to use than its competitor Bradshaw's Guide which had a reputation for difficulty.
  It was one of many railway timetable guides published during the expansion of the British railway network in the Victorian era, had many imitators, and was seen as symbolic of the more regulated nature of life in the industrial era.
  In 1936, the guides were a plot element in Agatha Christie's detective novel The A.B.C. Murders. After a number of changes of publisher in the later twentieth century during which it was renamed the OAG Rail Guide, it ceased publication in 2007.
caption: The ABC Alphabetical Railway Guide, No. 847, April 1924
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