Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 748
Book Description
Bradshaw's Railway Manual, Shareholders' Guide and Official Directory
Author: Bradshaw's Railway Manual, Shareholders' Guide, and Official Directory for ...
Author: Bradshaw's Railway Manual, Shareholders' Guide, and Official- Directory ...
Author: Bradshaw's railway almanack, directory, shareholders' guide, and manual
Author: George BradshawBradshaw's Railway Manual, Shareholder's Guide, and Official Directory
Author: The Statist
Author: Great Britain's Railways
Author: Colin MaggsPublisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN: 1445670305
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 459
Book Description
Explore a highly illustrated and comprehensive look at the story of 400 years of Britain's railways.
Financial Review of Reviews; the Investor's Quarterly
Author: Ernest Marples
Author: David BrandonPublisher: Pen and Sword Transport
ISBN: 1526760215
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
This biography examines the life and career of the conservative politician who led the charge to reshape British Railways in the mid-twentieth century. Ernest Marples was one of the most influential and controversial British politicians of the mid-twentieth century. As the Minister of Transport (1959–1964) he appointed Dr. Beeching chairman of British Railways and commissioned him to produce his infamous “Beeching Report”. Earlier, as Postmaster General (1957–1959), he reformed Post Office accounting systems and launched postcodes and Subscriber Trunk Dialing. Though Marples evaded implicated in the Profumo Affair which rocked the Conservative Party, his political career was over soon afterwards. Questionable business practices, and a 1975 flight to Monaco, drew scrutiny from Inland Revenue. Beeching, unhappy under a Labour government, returned to private industry. This biography of Marples draws on newly-available archives to examine Marples’s career as well as public and private transport policy, the growing power of the pro-road lobby, and the successful campaign to identify personal freedom with driving.
The Railway Haters
Author: David L. BrandonPublisher: Pen and Sword
ISBN: 1526700220
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 655
Book Description
This unique social history examines 200 years of controversy surrounding British Railways—from the dawn of industrialization to contemporary light rail. During the Industrial Revolution, the power of landowning aristocrats was challenged by the emergent wealth and influence of the urban middle class. There was no greater symbol of this seismic shift in society than the British Railways Companies. Railways, with their powers of compulsory purchase, intruded brutally into the previously sacrosanct estates and pleasure grounds of Britain's traditional ruling elite. Aesthetes like Ruskin and poets like Wordsworth ranted against railways; Sabbatarians attacked them for providing employment on the Lord's Day; antiquarians accused them of vandalism by destroying ancient buildings; others claimed their noise would make cows abort and chickens cease laying. And while the complaints have certainly changed, railways have continued to provoke debate ever since. Arguments have raged over railway nationalization and privatization, about the Beeching Plan to increase efficiency, and around urban light rail systems. Examining railways from their beginnings to the present, this book provides insights into social, economic and political attitudes and emphasizes both change and continuity over 200 years.