Tsavo National Park in southeastern Kenya, crossed by the Nairobi-Mombasa road and railway axis, is the country's largest protected area ( 8, 200 square miles, or 21, 000 square kilometers ) and was declared a national park in 1948.

After the war, in 1947 – 1948, Chum – Labytnangi railway, built with the forced labor of Gulag inmates, crossed the Polar Urals.

Founded in 1948, the club builds and runs an H0 scale model railway layout that occupies much of the floor.

A tube railway running from Victoria to Walthamstow was first proposed by a Working Party set up by the British Transport Commission in 1948.

Following nationalization of the main line railway companies in 1948, it became part of British Railways ( later British Rail ).

The railway was nationalised in 1948.

It remained in railway ownership until Nationalisation in 1948, and was damaged by floods in 1953.

* The Great Western Railway, a United Kingdom railway company nationalised in 1948 and that has since lent its name to:

The canal was nationalised in 1948, along with the railway companies, and control passed to the British Transport Commission.

The railway closed in 1948, but a preservation society was formed in 1966, initially opening a museum ; a short section of line between Corris and Maespoeth was re-opened to passengers in 2002.

The ' Branch Lines Committee ' of the British Transport Commission ( BTC ) was formed in 1949 with a brief to close the least used branch lines ; a total of railway were closed between 1948 and 1962.

By 1961 losses were running at £ 300, 000 a day ; since nationalisation in 1948 of line had been closed, railway staff numbers had fallen 26 % from 648, 000 to 474, 000 and the number of railway wagons from 1, 200, 000 to 848, 000.

The station and the railway that it served experienced several changes in management, being owned in turn by the London and Birmingham Railway ( 1837 – 1845 ), the London and North Western Railway ( 1846 – 1922 ), the London, Midland and Scottish Railway ( 1923 – 1947 ), British Railways ( 1948 – 1994 ), Railtrack ( 1994 – 2001 ) and Network Rail ( 2001 – present )

In 1923 it became a constituent of the London, Midland and Scottish ( LMS ) railway, and, in 1948, the London Midland Region of British Railways: the LNWR is effectively an ancestor of today's West Coast Main Line.

Along with the other members of the " Big Four " British railway companies ( GWR, LNER and SR ), the LMS was nationalised on 1 January 1948, becoming part of the state-owned British Railways.

In 1948, when the railway in Bermuda was closed down, the locomotives, rolling stock, track, sleepers and virtually all the associated paraphanelia of a railroad were shipped to the colony to bring fresh life to the aged system.

* British Rail ( British Railways ), the nationalised railway system of the United Kingdom from 1948 until 1994

During the first months of 1948, the railway between Cairo and Haifa was often targeted.

At ' the grouping ' in 1923, the station passed to the ownership of the London, Midland and Scottish ( LMS ) railway, and, in 1948, the London Midland Region of British Railways.

In 1948 Butlin also opened a hotel on the site and a railway station serving the camp.

While the UK railway system persisted until post-nationalisation in 1948 with " unfitted " ( discontinuously braked ) trains and loose couplings ( the final unfitted trains ran in the 1980s ), other systems, such as the North American adoption of the Janney coupler, overcame the same railway safety issues in a different manner.

The railway received its first diesel locomotive in June 1948, a General Electric 65-ton locomotive.

Entitlement to sick leave was greatly extended, and sick pay schemes were introduced for local authority administrative, professional and technical workers in 1946 and for various categories of manual workers in 1948.

The Electricity Act 1947 introduced better retirement benefits for workers in that industry, and a Workers ’ Compensation ( Supplementation ) Act was passed in 1948 that introduced benefits for workers with certain asbestos-related diseases which had occurred before 1948.

Legislation was also passed in 1947 and 1948 which established a permanent Agricultural Wages Board to fix minimum wages for agricultural workers.

Aneurin Bevan, who had introduced the Labour Party's National Health Service in 1948, criticised the Attlee government for not progressing further, demanding economic planning and criticising the implementation of nationalisation for not empowering the workers with democratic control of operations.

After the June 16, 1948 police shootings of five Indo-Guyanese workers at Enmore, close to Georgetown, the PAC and the Guiana Industrial Workers ' Union ( GIWU ) organized a large and peaceful demonstration, which clearly enhanced Jagan's standing with the Indo-Guyanese population.

Today a stark post-industrial landscape, Duquesne has fewer total residents ( 5, 565 at the 2010 U. S. census ) than were the city's mill workers in 1948.

During 1947 and 1948, commercial diggers took more than a million pounds of bi-valves from Copalis Beach, earned themselves approximately $ 200, 000. 00 and brought huge additional sums to cannery men and workers.

In 1948 he went further away from his previous views on segregation when supporting the recommendations of the Fagan Commission that Africans should be recognised as permanent residents of White South Africa and not only temporary workers that really belonged in the reserves.

During the Presidential Campaign of Henry A. Wallace, " We Will Overcome " was printed in Bulletin No. 3 ( Sept., 1948 ), 8, of People's Songs with an introduction by Horton saying that she had learned it from the interracial Congress of Industrial Organizations ( CIO ) Food and Tobacco Workers ' Union workers and had found it to be extremely powerful.

In that year it co-published " The Degenerated Revolution " which adopted a unique term, that countries other than the USSR ( such as those in Eastern Europe and countries such as Cuba ) were " degenerate workers states " and " degenerate from birth ", representing a nuance to the Fourth International's 1948 analysis that the USSR was a ' degenerated workers state ' while the other countries were ' deformed workers ' states '.

Hamama was first drawn into the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, after a group of workers from the town laboring in the adjacent fields were struck by Jewish settlers from Nitzanim on January 22, 1948, leaving fifteen Arabs wounded.

On land previously used only for summer cattle grazing in the natural alpine grasslands, the first ski lodge was built in 1948 by workers from the scheme.

London Transport did, however, reinstate a limited service between 3 May 1943 and 29 May 1948 for war workers, but there were only one or two daily services and these were not widely advertised.

Pablo and Ernest Mandel were instrumental in these years in winning the Fourth International to a position that asserted that the Eastern European states conquered by the Soviet Armed Forces in 1944-45 had by 1948 become what they described as deformed workers ' states.

Major causes of the decline were the diversion of labor from agriculture to industry ( in 1948 an estimated 2. 2 million workers were employed in agriculture ; by 1960, only 1. 5 million ); the suppression of the kulak, the most experienced and productive farmer ; and the peasantry's opposition to collectivization, which resulted in sabotage.

Four-fifths of the workers who entered the labor force from 1948 through 1975 were women.

* The year 1948 saw a turnover in civil service personnel ( especially the police ) and a substantial influx of workers into political and managerial positions.

The Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Collection, 1929 – 1969 ( bulk 1948 – 1960 ) includes correspondence, articles, and materials related to his association with the Illinois Institute of Technology.

The association with the 1948 incident is by no means secure.

During his long association with Knoll he designed many important pieces of furniture including the " Grasshopper " lounge chair and ottoman ( 1946 ), the " Womb " chair and ottoman ( 1948 ), the " Womb " settee ( 1950 ), side and arm chairs ( 1948 – 1950 ), and his most famous " Tulip " or " Pedestal " group ( 1956 ), which featured side and arm chairs, dining, coffee and side tables, as well as a stool.

Tennis club HLTC Haarlem, founded in 1884, and judo association Kenamju, founded in 1948, are also the oldest Dutch clubs in their sports.

Although the association was formally organized on September 18, 1948, political movements among Japanese college students can be traced back to much earlier times.

At Last the 1948 Show is a satirical TV show made by David Frost's company, Paradine Productions ( although it was not credited on the programmes ), in association with Rediffusion London.

Galland suspected that it was more to with his technically illegal departure from Germany in 1948 and his association with Argentina, a state which was on poor terms with the United States, the dominant partner of NATO.

* Jack Jones ( association footballer born 1891 ) ( 1891 – 1948 ), English football defender for Birmingham, Nelson and Crewe

In 1948, when the first post-war General Conference session was held, the delegates agreed to re-register the world-wide interests of the Seventh Day Adventist Reform Movement by incorporating the SDARM General Conference as an association in the USA.

The association was founded in 1948 by pioneer Tigers announcer Ty Tyson.

In 1948 the association changed its name to the current Commonwealth Parliamentary Association, and allowed all branches part in administration of the organisation.

The Eretz Israel FA was formed in 1928 and joined FIFA in the same year, but at the time the association was made up of Arab clubs, Jewish clubs and clubs representing British policemen or soldiers serving in the region during the British Mandate rule that spanned the period between World War One and the creation of the state of Israel in 1948.

Upon the creation of the State of Israel in May 1948, the IFA became the official association of the new state.

By 1948 Margaret Mead started what would be a long association with Teachers College where she taught until the early 1970s.

In 1948, in association with two colleagues, he launched a new version of Scientific American, to promote science literacy for the general public in the postwar era.

In 1948, what would later become the largest professional HR association — the Society for Human Resource Management ( SHRM )— was founded as the American Society for Personnel Administration ( ASPA ).

Horatio Stratton " Raich " Carter ( 21 December 1913 – 9 October 1994 ) was an English sportsman who played association football for Sunderland from 1931 to 1939, for Derby County from 1945 to 1948 and for Hull City from 1948 to 1952.

APESMA began as The Association of Professional Engineers, Australia which formed in 1946 and registered as an industrial association in 1948.

Although the college started in 1924 it was only in 1948 that an alumni association was formed.

When he applied to rejoin the CCF in 1948 his membership application was rejected, though no reason was given it is almost certain it was rejected due to the perception that Endicott's association with Communism.

The association was founded in 1948 by music teacher Mabel Massengill Gunn.

The Palestine / Eretz Israel FA was formed in 1928 and joined FIFA in 1929 but at the time the association was made up of Arab clubs, Jewish clubs and clubs representing British policemen and soldiers serving in the region during the British Mandate rule that spanned the period between World War One and the independence of the state of Israel in 1948.