The Egyptian nationalisation of the Suez Canal by President Nasser on 26 July 1956 prompted the British government of Anthony Eden and the French government of Guy Mollet to commence plans for invading Egypt, regaining the canal, and toppling Nasser.

Since the end of the Second World War, and the nationalisation of the canal system Stourport has been in steady decline.

Following the nationalisation of much of the canal network in 1948, and despite official attitudes which often saw the canals only as commercial highways, there had been some progress towards using them for pleasure cruising.

Economical policies focused on central planning and nationalisation, and a system of one party rule was put in place.

Labour's ' Usehold ' policy on land was in essence the replacement of freehold tenure by a system of perpetual lease from the State, with all land transfer conducted through the State ( the full nationalisation of farmland ).

The nationalisation was led by Herbert Morrison who had had the experience of uniting London's buses and underground train system into a centralised system in the 1930s.

The British Transport Police protects the rail system in Great Britain, due to the nationalisation of the Railways in 194.

Despite nationalisation and the creation of British Railways ( BR ), the rail system changed little, and was left in much the same way as it had been before nationalisation.

After nationalisation British Railways continued with these headcodes and the new diesel and electric locomotives and multiple units were built either with a disc / lamp system ( now powered by electricity ) or a two-or three-character roller-blind display system depending on what part of the network they were to work.

It is SOPA's perspective that in order to liberate the poorest of the Black majority of population from despair, the working class must lead a proletarian revolution which will abolish the system based upon the private ownership of fundamental means of production, and result in the redistribution of land and nationalisation of basic industries.

The ex-B & MJR system survived nationalisation into British Railways, but most were eventually closed during the 1960s.

Initial livery after nationalisation in 1948 was modified Southern Railway malachite green and sunshine yellow with ' British Railways ' on the tender, and the Southern numbering system was temporarily retained with an " S " prefix, e. g. S900.

# Do you want consolidation, in the future constitution of the economic system founded on agricultural reform and the nationalisation of basic national industries, including the preservation of the statutory rights of private enterprise?

As this ideology took shape over the next two decades, in the absence of a strong socialist party, the Brotherhood called for nationalisation of industries, substantial state intervention in the economy, a greatly reduced maximum wage for senior civil servants, laws to protect workers against exploitation, an Islamic banking system to provide interest-free loans, and generous social welfare programmes, including unemployment benefits, public housing and ambitious health and literacy programmes, funded by higher taxes on the wealthy.

The initial livery applied following the nationalisation of the railways in 1948 was modified Southern malachite green and sunshine yellow with " British Railways " on the tender, and the Southern numbering system was temporarily retained with an " S " prefix ( such as S850 ) until superseded by the British Railways numbering system.

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.

It remained a separate legal entity until 1906, when it was absorbed into the L & SWR, and became part of the Southern Railway on the grouping of British railways in 1923, and subsequently part of British Rail's Southern Region on nationalisation in 1948.

Under the 1923 Grouping it passed to the Southern Railway ( SR ), then in the 1948 nationalisation to British Railways.

Hence when the GWR absorbed the B & ER in 1876 the split was GWR 5 / 8 and MR ( later LMS ) 3 / 8 until nationalisation on 1 January 1948.

After nationalisation in 1948, passenger traffic started to dwindle.

After becoming part of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway in 1923 during Grouping, ownership passed to British Railways ( BR ) following nationalisation in 1948.

In 1948 nationalisation meant that British Railways took control.

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.

After nationalisation in 1948, London Road station was operated as two independent stations, separated by iron railings located on platform 5.

After nationalisation in 1948, the pace of rundown quickened.

It existed from 1 January 1923 until nationalisation on 1 January 1948, when it was divided into the new British Railways ' Eastern Region, North Eastern Region and partially the Scottish Region.

When British Railways was created by nationalisation in 1948, Gill Sans was used in much of its printed output, including timetables.

On 1 January 1948, the line became part of British Railways, Southern Region on nationalisation.

Schumacher campaigned through 1948 and 1949 for a united socialist Germany, and particularly for the nationalisation of heavy industry, whose owners he blamed for funding the Nazis ' rise to power.

After nationalisation of the railways in 1948 management of the station passed to British Railways.

The Great Western Railway, in particular, had many of the type, most characteristically in the form of the pannier tank locomotive that remained in production well past railway nationalisation in 1948.

After nationalisation of the railways in 1948 management of the station passed to British Railways and in 1969 ownership transferred to the London Underground.

Oliver Vaughan Snell Bulleid ( 19 September 1882 – 25 April 1970 ) was a British railway and mechanical engineer best known as the Chief Mechanical Engineer ( CME ) of the Southern Railway between 1937 and the 1948 nationalisation, developing many well-known locomotives.

He continued to serve the railways after nationalisation in 1948, and was created Chairman of London Transport in 1953.

1946 also saw the establishment of the National Health Service which came into force in July 1948 and in 1948 came the nationalisation of railways, canals, road haulage and electricity.

62. 8 % of the company's locomotives which were inherited by the Southern Railway were still in use at the nationalisation of British Railways in 1948, compared with 57. 9 % for the L & SWR and 56. 8 % for the SE & CR.

The Act was part of the nationalisation agenda of Clement Attlee's Labour government, and took effect from 1 January 1948.

The station remained as part of the Great Western Railway ( GWR ) until the nationalisation of the railways in 1948.

Within a few years of nationalisation, a number of progressive measures had been carried out which did much to improve conditions in the mines, including better pay, a five-day workweek, a national safety scheme ( with proper standards at all the collieries ), a ban on boys under the age of 16 going underground, the introduction of training for newcomers before going down to the coalface, and the making of pithead baths into a standard facility.

While he did not challenge the Party constitution's stated dedication to nationalisation head-on, he took little action to pursue it.

However the initial foundation of the National Health Service ( NHS ) did not involve building new hospitals but merely the nationalisation of existing municipal and charitable foundations.

Only after Emil Welti's resignation in 1891 after a failed referendum on railway nationalisation did the Radicals decide to co-opt the Conservatives by supporting the election of Josef Zemp.

Following nationalisation in 1947-8, traffic did not revive, and all traffic had ceased by 1958, after which maintenance was run down.

It did build a Paxman engined diesel locomotive, British Rail 10800, originally ordered for the London, Midland and Scottish Railway before the 1948 nationalisation of British Railways, but not delivered until 1950.