The Railway & Canal History Society has formed a new special interest group that is available to members, entitled Modern Transport.
I co-ordinate the pieces for inclusion in the newsletter which goes out at the same time as the Railway Chronology Newsletter. The Modern Transport Newsletter No 2 will include a piece on the nationalisation of the waterways.
The years 1948-1955 were particularly crucial to the future of our waterways network. The Docks & Inland Waterways Executive was a vehicle that enabled the take over of independent and railway owned navigations and their merger into a common network. Brief details of the happenings of the time appear in the D & IWE Board Minutes (PRO AN77) and the various successive boards of management (PRO AN71) These records sometimes mention boat sales. Has anybody taken the trouble to check these records.
Ray Shill
Industrial Historian
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