which was already publicly owned. The nationalisation package also included the fleets of 'private owner wagons', which industrial concerns had used to transport goods on the railway networks.

Organisation

The BTC was one of the largest industrial organisations in the world, and owned a vast number of transport-related assets. The assets owned at its creation included: of railway track, 1.3 million freight and service railway vehicles, 40,000 passenger railway coaches, 20,148 locomotives, 93,000 road vehicles, of canals, 122

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