• Railway nationalisation is the act of taking rail transport assets into public ownership. Several countries have at different times nationalised part or...
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    railway equipment or materials which meant that there was an urgent need for track, locomotive and rolling stock renewal by the time nationalisation took...
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  • rejected. Nationalisation was subsequently carried out after World War II, under the Transport Act 1947. This Act made provision for the nationalisation of the...
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    Transport Act 1947 (category Nationalisation in the United Kingdom)
    considered a very good deal.[citation needed] Despite nationalisation and the creation of British Railways (BR), the rail system changed little, and was left...
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  • recovered. 1940s Argentine railways 1953 British Petroleum's Iranian assets (actually a nationalisation of part of a part-nationalised company) 1956 The Egyptian...
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    operated from 1 January 1923 until nationalisation on 1 January 1948. At that time, it was divided into the new British Railways' Eastern Region, North Eastern...
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  • This is a list of heritage, private and preserved railways throughout the United Kingdom, the Crown dependencies, and British Overseas Territories whether...
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  • like it". From nationalisation on January 1, 1948 until it was privatised, the railway was the North Western Region of British Railways (BR). From 1925...
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    permanent nationalisation, but instead decided on a compulsory amalgamation of the railways into four large groups through the 1921 Railways Act, known...
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    The nationalisation process in Pakistan (or historically simply regarded as the "Nationalisation in Pakistan") was a policy measure programme in the economic...
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    Limehouse is a National Rail and connected Docklands Light Railway (DLR) station in Limehouse, London, England. It is served by regional services operated...
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  • Nationalization (nationalisation in British English) is the process of transforming privately owned assets into public assets by bringing them under the...
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    List of British Rail classes (category British railway-related lists)
    and multiple units that have operated on Great Britain's railway network, since Nationalisation in 1948. British Rail used several numbering schemes for...
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    1906. The station remained as part of the Great Western Railway (GWR) until railway nationalisation in 1948. After the sectorisation of British Rail in 1982...
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    state was re-nationalising parts of the railway and making efforts towards improving it, in 2015 it was announced that complete nationalisation of the remaining...
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    bureaucracy as the state-owned Nizam's Guaranteed State Railway. This partial-nationalisation was reversed in 1883 when a management company was formed...
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    and Scottish Railway at the 1923 grouping. Only three, 17567, 17598 and 17610 (all 812s), had been withdrawn by the time of nationalisation in 1948. The...
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    World War the railways were under state control, which continued until 1921. Complete nationalisation had been considered, and the Railways Act 1921 is...
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    Saye House was required for the station's construction. After railway nationalisation in 1948, operation of the Reading to Basingstoke line, and management...
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    Wroxham (section Railways)
    Northern Joint Railway, which operated some of the train services in East Anglia before British railway nationalisation in 1947. The original railway runs on...
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  • after nationalisation. They were numbered 15211–15236, and were later classified as British Rail Class 12. British Rail 11001, Southern Railway design...
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  • in peace-time., although he welcomed the nationalisation of the railways, saying that the big four railway companies had "brought their difficulties...
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    make the return journey. The station was part of the GWR until railway nationalisation in 1948. After the sectorisation of British Rail in 1982, the station...
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    of porter originated in the United Kingdom, and continued after railway nationalisation, it went into decline by the 1970s, with the general station duties...
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    Oliver Bulleid (category British railway mechanical engineers)
    railway and mechanical engineer best known as the Chief Mechanical Engineer (CME) of the Southern Railway between 1937 and the 1948 nationalisation,...
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  • D3/12. Twenty-six similar locomotives were built in 1949–1951 after nationalisation. They were numbered 15211–15236, and were later classified as British...
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    Düren. During the nationalisation of the company in 1880 the company took over the 78 km railway network of the Dutch-Westphalian Railway Company from...
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  • in 1923 and was nationalised in 1948 as part of British Railways. The District Railway was part of the Underground Electric Railways Company of London...
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    station then passed on to the Southern Region of British Railways on nationalisation in 1948. The station was destaffed around 1970 following which all...
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  • private companies, but it was nationalised by the Transport Act 1947 and was run from then onwards by British Railways (which traded as British Rail from...
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