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This page provides a timeline for nationalisation in the UK.
| Inland telephone services |
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1912 |
| National Grid established |
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1926 |
| British Broadcasting Company (becomes British Broadcasting Corporation) |
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1927 |
| London Transport |
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1933 |
| British Overseas Airways Corporation (BOAC) formed by the merger of Imperial Airways and British Airways Ltd. |
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1939 |
| Coal; British European Airways (BEA) formed from the relevant part of BOAC |
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1946 |
| Central Electricity Generating Board |
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1947 |
| Railways |
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1948 |
| Gas supply |
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1949 |
| Iron and steel production (later denationalised by the Conservatives, then nationalised again in 1967) |
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1951 |
| Rolls Royce (aero engine division) |
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1971 |
| British Gas created, replacing regional gas boards |
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1973 |
| British Airways created (merger of four companies including BOAC and BEA) |
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1974 |
| British Leyland (privatised to British Aerospace in 1986) |
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1976 |
| British Aerospace created |
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1977 |
| British Telecom created; British Aerospace privatised |
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1981 |
| British Gas privatised |
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1986 |
| British Airways privatised |
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1987 |
| British Steel privatised |
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1988 |
| Railways privatised |
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1994 |
| Northern Rock, Bradford & Bingley, RBS (40%, gradually increased to 80%) |
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2008 |
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