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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British Rail (redirect from Nationalisation of British Railways)
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 station (redirect from Stepney East railway station)
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 (redirect from Nationalisation)
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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Rail transport in Argentina (redirect from Railway system in Argentina)
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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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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Percy Morris (section Railway nationalisation)
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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