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!ukpolitics@lemm.ee appears to have vanished! We can still see cached content from this link, but goodbye I guess! :'(
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Just as a correction. Railways was set up as a privrate enterprise then nationalised. But unlike most of the rest the rail system was fairly national before gov involvement.
Sewers sorta. They were started as city states long before democracy was a thing iE most cities had basic systems in feudal times. But roll out to rural villages etc was def modern gov.
Electrical grid much the same but started in the 1900s. Privrate city systems some run by local gov some entirly privrate. Standardisation and national unification was def gov in 1938.
Same with the gas grid. A mix of privrate and city run town gas systems from mid 1800s linked and nationalised in 1949. (PS worked for British gas during the privatisation process)
thank you for the corrections.