Author: Leslie JamesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
A Chronology of the Construction of Britain's Railways, 1778-1855
Author: Leslie JamesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Cheshire Railways
Author: Robin JonesPublisher: Countryside Books (GB)
ISBN: 9781846741555
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
The World's First Railway System
Author: Mark CassonPublisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191570419
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 560
Book Description
The British railway network was a monument to Victorian private enterprise. Its masterpieces of civil engineering were emulated around the world. But its performance was controversial: praised for promoting a high density of lines, it was also criticised for wasteful duplication of routes. This is the first history of the British railway system written from a modern economic perspective. It uses conterfactual analysis to construct an alternaive network to represent the most efficient alternative rail network that could have been constructed given what was known at the time - the first time this has been done. It reveals how weaknesses in regulation and defects in government policy resulted in enormous inefficiency in the Victorian system that Britain lives with today. British railway companies developed into powerful regional monopolies, which then contested each other's territories. When denied access to existing lines in rival territories, they built duplicate lines instead. Plans for an integrated national system, sponsored by William Gladstone, were blocked by Members of Parliament because of a perceived conflict with the local interests they represented. Each town wanted more railways than its neighbours, and so too many lines were built. The costs of these surplus lines led ultimately to higher fares and freight charges, which impaired the performance of the economy. The book will be the definitive source of reference for those interested in the economic history of the British railway system. It makes use of a major new historical source, deposited railway plans, integrates transport and local history through its regional analysis of the railway system, and provides a comprehensive, classified bibliography.
The Journal of Transport History
Author: An Historical Geography of Railways in Great Britain and Ireland
Author: David TurnockPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351958933
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
Although a great deal has been published on the economic, social and engineering history of nineteenth-century railways, the work of historical geographers has been much less conspicuous. This overview by David Turnock goes a long way towards restoring the balance. It details every important aspect of the railway’s influence on spatial distribution of economic and social change, providing a full account of the nineteenth-century geography of the British Isles seen in the context of the railway. The book reviews and explains the shape of the developing railway network, beginning with the pre-steam railways and connections between existing road and water communications and the new rail lines. The author also discusses the impact of the railways on the patterns of industrial, urban and rural change throughout the century. Throughout, the historical geography of Ireland is treated in equal detail to that of Great Britain.
Railways; a Readers Guide
Author: Eric Thomas BryantPublisher: [Hamden, Conn.] : Archon Books
ISBN:
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
The Development of Transportation in Modern England
Author: William T. JackmanPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429614365
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 560
Book Description
Published in 1962: In offering this work as a modest contribution to our knowledge of the economic development of England from the standpoint of transportation, the author must say, in the first place that he has endeavoured to adhere rigidly to the subject in hand, withour making deviations into collateral fields
A Regional History of the Railways of Great Britain: The North West
Author: David St. John ThomasPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
Subject Catalog
Author: Library of CongressPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1004
Book Description
The Development of Transport in Modern England
Author: William T. JackmanPublisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780714613260
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 870
Book Description
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