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1 January 1948
- British Railways was formed on 1 January 1948 as a result of the Transport Act 1947, which nationalised the Big Four British railway companies along with some other (but not all) smaller railways.
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2 days ago · British Rail filmstrip showing how the railways were unified under BR. Nationalisation in 1948. BR steam locomotive 70013 Oliver Cromwell. The rail transport system in Great Britain developed during the 19th century.
5 days ago · It built a National Health Service and ran 'nationalized' industries such as British Rail or British Steel. The mines were publicly owned and run by a National Coal Board. From the early 1960s this post-imperial nation, initially concerned to protect its interests in the world via a large and powerful military, complete with state-of-the-art ...
5 days ago · railroad, mode of land transportation in which flange-wheeled vehicles move over two parallel steel rails, or tracks, either by self-propulsion or by the propulsion of a locomotive.
4 days ago · Semaphore signals added during British Railways days, were not ornate like those installed during Pre Grouping and Big 4. Take these examples at Marchwood (former Fawley branch, near Southampton).
2 days ago · After the First World War, rail traffic declined with the widespread adoption of motor vehicles and public narrow gauge lines in Britain began to struggle financially. Most of these railways were built to serve marginal traffic that would not support a larger line.
4 days ago · The British had already addressed the issue of railway time in 1847, using the meridian of the Royal Observatory at Greenwich, hence Greenwich Mean Time. The smaller size of England made the problem easier to resolve since it required only one time zone.
3 days ago · A mixed bag of questions relating to the names of British Rail locomotives which were active during the 1960s, 1970s and beyond. Locomotive numbers refer to the pre-TOPS scheme unless otherwise noted.
