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History of rail transport in Great Britain - The railways in the post-war world | | History of rail transport in Great Britain - The railways in the post-war world: Encyclopedia II - History of rail transport in Great Britain - The railways in the post-war world | | In the post-war world, lifestyles underwent radical changes, cars became affordable to the masses, new road and motorways were built. The railways on the other hand entered the post-war world with technologies and operating practices which had changed little since the Victorian era. The last 60 years have seen the railways stumbling to adjust to the new world.
The railways attempts to modernise during the 1950s ...
See also:History of rail transport in Great Britain, History of rail transport in Great Britain - Railed roads and tramways 1676 to 1825, History of rail transport in Great Britain - Early rails, History of rail transport in Great Britain - Early public railways, History of rail transport in Great Britain - Stockton and Darlington Railway, History of rail transport in Great Britain - The development of the railways 1825 to 1923, History of rail transport in Great Britain - Liverpool and Manchester Railway, History of rail transport in Great Britain - Canterbury and Whitstable Railway, History of rail transport in Great Britain - Further Progress, History of rail transport in Great Britain - Railway Mania, History of rail transport in Great Britain - Government involvement, History of rail transport in Great Britain - The Battle of the Gauges, History of rail transport in Great Britain - Early successes, History of rail transport in Great Britain - Major railway companies in Great Britain, History of rail transport in Great Britain - English railways, History of rail transport in Great Britain - Scottish railways, History of rail transport in Great Britain - The Grouping, History of rail transport in Great Britain - Following the grouping: 1923-1947, History of rail transport in Great Britain - The grouping period, History of rail transport in Great Britain - Nationalisation, History of rail transport in Great Britain - The railways in the post-war world, History of rail transport in Great Britain - The modernisation plan, History of rail transport in Great Britain - The Beeching era, History of rail transport in Great Britain - The 1970s, History of rail transport in Great Britain - The 1980s, History of rail transport in Great Britain - The 1990s, History of rail transport in Great Britain - Privatisation, History of rail transport in Great Britain - Contemporary developments | | | History of rail transport in Great Britain, History of rail transport in Great Britain - Canterbury and Whitstable Railway, History of rail transport in Great Britain - Contemporary developments, History of rail transport in Great Britain - Early public railways, History of rail transport in Great Britain - Early rails, History of rail transport in Great Britain - Early successes, History of rail transport in Great Britain - English railways, History of rail transport in Great Britain - Following the grouping: 1923-1947, History of rail transport in Great Britain - Further Progress, History of rail transport in Great Britain - Government involvement, History of rail transport in Great Britain - Liverpool and Manchester Railway, History of rail transport in Great Britain - Major railway companies in Great Britain, History of rail transport in Great Britain - Nationalisation, History of rail transport in Great Britain - Privatisation, History of rail transport in Great Britain - Railed roads and tramways 1676 to 1825, History of rail transport in Great Britain - Railway Mania, History of rail transport in Great Britain - Scottish railways, History of rail transport in Great Britain - Stockton and Darlington Railway, History of rail transport in Great Britain - The 1970s, History of rail transport in Great Britain - The 1980s, History of rail transport in Great Britain - The 1990s, History of rail transport in Great Britain - The Battle of the Gauges, History of rail transport in Great Britain - The Beeching era, History of rail transport in Great Britain - The Grouping, History of rail transport in Great Britain - The development of the railways 1825 to 1923, History of rail transport in Great Britain - The grouping period, History of rail transport in Great Britain - The modernisation plan, History of rail transport in Great Britain - The railways in the post-war world, History of rail transport, Rail transport in Great Britain, List of early British railway companies, History of rail transport in Ireland, British postal system, List of railway lines in Great Britain, List of closed railway lines in Great Britain | | |
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History of rail transport in Great Britain - The railways in the post-war world
In the post-war world, lifestyles underwent radical changes, cars became affordable to the masses, new road and motorways were built. The railways on the other hand entered the post-war world with technologies and operating practices which had changed little since the Victorian era. The last 60 years have seen the railways stumbling to adjust to the new world.
The railways attempts to modernise during the 1950s were largely unsucessful, and resulted in the huge Beeching Axe closures programme of the 1960s.
Before the war, the railway companies had formed a powerful political lobby group, but one effect of nationalisation was to effectively destroy this political influence (as they were owned by the government, they could hardly criticise its policies).
Conversely the newly privatised road haulage industry and motor interests were becoming increasingly powerful and influential over government transport policy, a trend which dictated transport policies of all British governments for the rest of the post war period.
In the immediate post-war period, most of the money spent on the railways was spent on clearing the enormous maintenance backlog inherited from the war. After that there was little left over for modernisation. By the start of the 1950s Britain had fallen well behind the rest of Europe in terms of dieselisation and electrification of its railways. Indeed under the Labour government there was a political incentive to avoid dieselisation because this would have meant a reduced demand for coal, which would have put miners out of work.
The bureaucratic committee structure of the BTC and British Railways did not help matters, it slowed progress towards modernisation to a crawl.
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