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:''This article is part of a series on the History of rail transport in Great Britain'' The history of rail transport in Great Britain 1948–1994 covers the period when the British railway system was nationalised under the name of ''British Rail'' (initially known as ''British Railways''), until its eventual privatisation in 1994. The railway system in this period underwent modernisation, reorganisation and rebranding, some of which proved controversial. The use of steam locomotives on the network also ended in this period. ==The 1940s: Nationalisation== The Transport Act 1947 nationalised nearly all forms of mass transport in Great Britain and came into effect on 1 January 1948. ''British Railways'' came into existence as the business name of the Railway Executive of the British Transport Commission (BTC) on 1 January 1948 when it took over the assets of the "Big Four" railway companies. A small number of independent light railways and industrial railways, which did not contribute significant mileage to the system, were not included in British Railways; nor the Glasgow Underground and London Underground, already both public concerns, the Liverpool Overhead Railway, and non-railway-owned tramways. The Northern Counties Committee lines owned by the LMS were sold to the Northern Ireland government, becoming part of the Ulster Transport Authority (UTA) in 1949. Under the BTC's Railway Executive, the railways were organised into six regions: * Eastern Region (ER) – LNER lines south of Shaftholme Junction, Doncaster ''(region later amalgamated with the North Eastern Region)'' * North Eastern Region (NER) – LNER lines in England north of Shaftholme Junction ''(region later amalgamated with the Eastern Region)'' * London Midland Region (LMR) – LMS lines in England and Wales. * Scottish Region (ScR) – LMS and LNER lines in Scotland * Southern Region (SR) – Southern Railway lines * Western Region (WR) – Great Western Railway lines The first priority of the new British Railways Board was to repair the infrastructure of the railways damaged by bombing, clear the backlog of maintenance that had built up, and make good losses in locomotives and rolling stock. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「History of rail transport in Great Britain 1948–1994」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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