Birth of British Rail
Details:
- Author(s) Bonavia, Michael R
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 1979
- Pages 110pp; illus
- Publisher Allen & Unwin
- Place Published London
Topics:
- Name Public ownership & control inc nationalisation, municipalisation & privatisation
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Library:
- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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Notes:
Provides an account of 'British Rail' from the Transport Act, 1947, to October 1953 which covers the period of management by the Railway Executive, within the British Transport Commission, until its abolition when its functions were assumed by the Commission itself [Commission being replaced by British Railways Board in 1963 and the latter adopting the trading name 'British Rail' in the late 1960s]. Has sections: 'Transformation scene'; 'The tasks and the men of ther hour'; 'Companies and regions';'Liveries and train services'; 'Traction policy'; 'The carrying stock'; 'Accidents and incidents'; 'The rank and file'; 'Ships and sealing wax'; 'The end of the beginning'