North Eastern Region of British Railways

North Eastern Region of British Railways
Region logo from 1965 to 1966
FranchiseNot subject to franchising (1 January 1948 – 31 December 1966)
Main RegionsNorth East of England, Yorkshire and the Humber
Parent companyBritish Rail

The North Eastern Region was a region of British Railways from 1948, whose operating area could be identified by the tangerine-coloured signs and colour schemes that adorned its stations and other railway buildings. It was merged with the Eastern Region in 1967. It was the near direct post-nationalisation descendant of the North Eastern Railway, that had merged with some other companies to form the LNER in 1923.

In 1958 in a major re-drawing of the region boundaries it gained those former LMS lines that lay in the present-day West and North Yorkshire. In 1967 it was disbanded and merged with the Eastern Region.

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