British American Railway Services (BARS) was a British locomotive and spot hire

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. It was a subsidiary of Iowa Pacific Holdings. The company was established on 8 July 2008 to acquire the rail assets of Ealing Community Transport. BARS subsidiaries included RMS Locotec, Hanson Traction,

Weardale Railway The Weardale Railway is an independently owned British Single track (rail), single-track branch line heritage railway between and Stanhope. The railway began services in July 2004. The line was purchased by the Auckland Project in 2020 with a ...

and Dartmoor Railway. BARS also owned Devon & Cornwall Railways which was active from 2011 until 2017. In January 2020 BARS announced that it intended to dispose of all its UK assetsWeardale Railway put up for sale by its American owners
/ref> and on 27 June 2023 it officially dissolved.

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