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Railways in Retrospect
Railways For The People by A. J. Mullay
The privatisation of British Railways in the 1990s led to a massive reorganisation of the way the railway system is operated, but 50 years earlier there had been another major upheaval when the 1947 Transport Act brought the
nation's railways into state ownership. In 1948 25,000 route miles of track, 20,000 locomotives, 1.23 million goods wagons, 70 hotels, 50,000 tons of shipping, important harbours such as Hull and Southampton, 1,640 miles of canals and 52
,000 houses passed into Government control. This is the fascinating and revealing story of how the nationalisation of Britain's railways was achieved.
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