British Transport Commission
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The British Transport Commission was created by Clement Attlee's post-war Labour government as a part of its nationalisation programme, to oversee railways, canals and road freight transport in the UK. Its first chairman was Lord Hurcomb.
It was abolished by Harold Macmillan's Conservative government under the Transport Act, 1962, with its railway responsibilities being transferred to the British Railways Board, and its waterways responsibilities to the British Waterways Board.
