page_title: British Rail Passenger Timetable
section_title: Predecessors
hierarchical_section_title: British Rail Passenger Timetable / Predecessors
caption_attribution_description: Bradshaw's Handbook for Tourists in Great Britain and Ireland. London: W.J. Adams. 1882
context_page_description: The British Rail Passenger Timetable, later the National Rail Timetable, was a book that contained the times of all passenger rail services in Great Britain. It was first published by British Rail in 1974.
context_section_description: The first combined railway timetable was produced by George Bradshaw in 1839. His guide assembled timetables from the many private railway companies into one book. Bradshaw's continued to be published until 1961, with demand dwindling after the grouping of the railways in 1923, as each of the new "Big Four" companies published their own comprehensive timetable.
caption: A Bradshaw's guide book and timetable
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