After exploring the origins of nationalisation, the book deals with the organisation, financial performance, investment and commercial policies of the British Transport Commission (1948–2), Railway ...

After exploring the origins of nationalisation, the book deals with the organisation, financial performance, investment and commercial policies of the British Transport Commission (1948–2), Railway ...

To some, it feels like we've been talking about Great British Railways (GBR) - the government's attempt to overhaul and modernise the railways with a new public body to oversee them - for a long time.

In the early 1960s, British Railways, the nationalised rail network created by the Attlee government in 1948, was changing. It was set to become a modern, streamlined organisation, with the help of a ...