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Nationalisation last time - and the following 20 years
 
Nationalisation last time - and the following 20 years
Posted by grahame at 07:04, 28th September 2026
 
Nationalisation last time round (1948) and what happened over the following 20 years

YouTube video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQKsMT16PFA
How Just One Mistake Destroyed British Railways

From that video - what was envisaged and promised.

What will happen this time round in the next 20 years?




Re: Nationalisation last time - and the following 20 years
Posted by TaplowGreen at 09:07, 28th September 2026
 
.......so we've heard it all before then?

(perhaps not the war damage this time though!)

 
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