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9 unusual facts about British Transport Commission


Chasewater

In 1956 the reservoir is purchased by Brownhills Urban District Council from the British Transport Commission for £5,600 and the reservoir is renamed Chasewater.

Gipsyville

Nearly £500,000 was contributed by the government, and nearly £140,000 by the BTC.

Norvela Forster

The next day she heard of Beeching's appointment to the British Transport Commission overlooking British Rail.

Oxford to London coach route

Operations resumed in 1946, but by 1950 both Red & White and United Counties had been nationalised and were controlled by the British Transport Commission.

Polmont railway station

The branch passenger service was withdrawn by the British Transport Commission on 7 May 1956, but it remained in use for freight until 1975 and has since been reopened as the heritage Bo'ness and Kinneil Railway.

River Don Navigation

Control of the navigation, as with most British canals, passed to the British Transport Commission on 1 January 1948, under the terms of the Transport Act (1947).

Robin Deacon

His later performance piece Prototypes (2006 – 09) stylistically referenced the output of documentary films produced by the British Transport Commission.

Sir Joseph Nall, 1st Baronet

The family firm was also taken over by the state in the following year, when it passed to the British Transport Commission.

William Valentine Wood

He then worked for 5 years with the British Transport Commission (BTC) whose Chairman, Sir Cyril Hurcombe, he had come to know during his time in the Ministry of Transport.


Scottish Motor Traction

Upon nationalisation of the SMT group's bus and coach services by the Attlee government in 1949, those of SMT itself were transferred to a new British Transport Commission subsidiary, Scottish Omnibuses Ltd., which continued to operate as "SMT" until the early 1960s, when the fleet name "Eastern Scottish" was adopted.


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