The main utilities were taken over by the state: electricity, gas, railways and ports, as well as much private industry including coal and steel.
We want core services – water, electricity, gas, railways – brought back into public ownership, and a benefit system that does not demean the people whom it should be supporting.
These pre-war schemes, set up in part to compensate for unusually dangerous or demanding work, allow electricity, gas, railway and metro workers, among others, to retire early on full pensions.
Shale gas, roads, railways, deregulation and police reform also featured, although with few specifics.
Republicans now control the Railroad Commission (which is in charge of oil, gas and railway crossings), the state Supreme Court, and the state board of education.
Caterpillar and GE, two large engineering companies, are both working on natural-gas-powered railway trains.
There is talk of Sino-Russian gas pipelines and railways crossing Mongolia.
Polls show voters in favour of the renationalisation of electricity, gas, water, the railways and the telecommunications industry.
The growth of new forms of energy (such as shale gas) has boosted railways, which are needed to bring in pipes, timber and drilling sand.
It established the National Health Service, raised the school leaving age, and took into public ownership the coal industry, the railways, gas, electricity and the communications firm Cable and Wireless.
It's strange that German and French nationalised utilities running their railways, gas and electricity can borrow capital commercially, enabling them to invest in acquiring British rail contracts, as well as acquiring our former nationalised gas and electricity concerns.
