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.

The British Transport Commission ( BTC ) was created by Clement Attlee's post-war Labour government as a part of its nationalisation programme, to oversee railways, canals and road freight transport in Great Britain ( Northern Ireland had the separate Ulster Transport Authority ).

The BTC was one of the largest industrial organisations in the world, at one time employing nearly 688, 000 people.

By the late 1950s the BTC was in serious financial difficulties, largely due to the economic performance of the railways.

Described as the " most momentous piece of legislation in the field of railway law to have been enacted since the Railway and Canal Traffic Act 1854 ", it was passed by Harold Macmillan's Conservative government to dissolve the British Transport Commission ( BTC ), which had been established by Clement Attlee's Labour government in 1947 to oversee railways, canals and road freight transport.

The BTC was a part of a highly ambitious scheme to create a publicly owned, centrally planned, integrated transport system.

In theory the BTC was to co-ordinate different modes of transport, to co-operate and supplement each other instead of competing.

Once the Conservatives were elected in 1951, road haulage was soon de-nationalised and de-regulated, but the still heavily regulated railways and buses were left under the control of the BTC.

The British Tanker Company Limited ( BTC ) was formed in 1915, after the Anglo-Persian Oil Company decided to become a fully self-contained operation, directly owning a fleet of tankers for sea transport.

She was the BTC ’ s first diesel engine oil tanker, and at that time was the most powerful single-screw motor ship in the world.

It was renamed the London Transport Executive and this was placed under the authority of the British Transport Commission ( BTC ).

The Central Line extensions in east and west London opened in the late 1940s but this was the only real accomplishment of the BTC in terms of the expansion of the network, and most of this had already been completed by the time the BTC took over.

The BTC was abolished in 1963 and the Ministry of Transport created a separate Board to run London Transport.

The decision to hold it at Stourbridge Basin was taken in late 1961, and David Hutchings, by then chairman of the rally committee, approached British Transport Waterways, the operating arm of the British Transport Commission ( BTC ) to ensure that the Stourbridge Branch would be dredged, to allow the boats to reach the festival site.

His actions gained widespread media coverage, which was extremely critical of the BTC.

The BTC was abolished later that year, and the rally went ahead, with British Waterways staff assisting boats through the decrepit locks.

Within its own sphere the BTC was highly effective, coordinating the efforts of roughly fifty unions to police every construction worksite in the City to check that only union members were working there.

The BTC was able to turn this control at the workplace level into better wages in the San Francisco construction industry than anywhere else in the country in the first decades of the twentieth century.

The D600s were the result of power politics within the BTC and the WR: the former was unwilling to sanction radical, stressed-skin lightweight construction locomotives at the time, while the latter was equally insistent that at least some of the new Type 4 power range locomotives on order be equipped with hydraulic transmission.

BTC was officially inaugurated in 2007, and it was bestowed with the mission to mobilize university students, professionals, and volunteers to build sustainable bridges that not only improve the lives of villagers, but also inspire younger generations to help the needy.

McCarthy ruled the BTC like an autocrat: he did not brook criticism, much less challenges to his authority, and he sometimes made decisions concerning local unions without consulting the parties involved.

The Transport Act 1962 dissolved the British Transport Commission ( BTC ) which had overseen the railways, canals and road freight transport and established the British Railways Board which took over BTC's responsibilities on 1 January 1963.

Most of the pastors and BCP trustees had worked closely with the missionaries, and had been well trained at BTC.

* Films: the BTC had its own film production company, British Transport Films

On formation, the BTC had an initial budget of $ 144, 000 with which to build seven steam-powered tankers.

Within a year of peace in 1945, the BTC fleet had returned to its pre-war total of 93 vessels.

They were initially operated by the luxury train operator the Pullman Car Company, which the BTC had recently acquired.

The BTC prioritised the reconstruction of its main-line railways, which had also been nationalised, over the maintenance of the Underground.

The Transport Act 1962 dissolved the British Transport Commission ( BTC ) which had overseen the railways, canals and road freight transport and established the British Railways Board ; it also put in place measures which simplified the process of closing railways.

The most unusual coachbuilder on the PD2 / 20 was for Sheffield Transport, who added five with Eastern Coach Works bodies in 1957, ECW bodies, like Bristol Chassis were at the time restricted to wholly state-owned operators and Sheffield Transport although managed by Sheffield Corporation had three components: the wholly municipal A fleet ; the half municipal, half British Railways owned B-fleet and the wholly British Railways owned C-fleet ; it was for this unit that these five were built, with similar H32 / 28R bodies to the Bristol KSW buses of similar layout and dimensions used by BTC fleets.

Arguments which had been successfully employed to see off the previous attempted demolition in 1938 failed to sway the BTC which said that it was unable to afford the costs of reconstruction.

He stated that he had decided against adopting the suggested preservation strategy, and explained that " every possible way " of preserving the arch had been investigated by the BTC, but the lack of available land, the operational requirements of the station and the removal costs entailed made the project unfeasible.

As Mayor he installed BTC officials throughout his administration, required City employees to become union members, and raised the minimum wage for city employees from $ 2 to $ 3 per day.

* Block Truncation Coding, Absolute Moment BTC or simply BTC

BaTelCo is an acronym for the Bahamas Telecommunications Company, now simply referred to as BTC.

The BTC, in return, established a union planing mill from which construction employers could obtain supplies – or face boycotts and sympathy strikes if they did not.

The BTC, in return, established a union planing mill from which construction employers could obtain supplies — or face boycotts and sympathy strikes if they did not.

The four Boards inherited the property, liabilities and functions of the BTC, but importantly their activities were to be co-ordinated by the Minister of Transport, rather than a body separate from the government.

The four Boards created after the break-up of the BTC were also placed in the position of private companies in respect of their commercial activities.

The exception to that rule came in 1900, when the BTC unilaterally declared that its members would work only eight hours a day for $ 3 a day.

McCarthy and the BTC, characteristically, not only did not join in the campaign, but supported a rival candidate.

McCarthy, won the eight-hour day in 1900 when the BTC unilaterally declared that its members would work only eight hours a day for $ 3 a day.