Herbert E. Dougall

Railway Nationalization and Transport Co-ordination in France

1937, that a national railway company was to be formed to combine the operations of the major publicly and privately owned railway systems in France came as no surprise to those who have been following developments in the French railway situation during the last few years. On the contrary, the shift to complete state control appears as the inevitable result of forces which have been operating ever since the war period. Coincidental with the passage of the decree on August 3I, 1937,