Author: G H. ANTHONY
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780853612230
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
Tavistock, Launceston and Princetown Railways
Author: G H. ANTHONY
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780853612230
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780853612230
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
The Tavistock, Launceston and Princetown Railways
Author: George Henry Anthony
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
The Princetown Branch
Author: Anthony Richard Kingdom
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Princetown Branch
Languages : en
Pages : 166
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Princetown Branch
Languages : en
Pages : 166
Book Description
The World's First Railway System
Author: Mark Casson
Publisher: 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.
Publisher: 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 Railway Magazine
Tavistock Memories
Author: Trevor James
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN: 144563130X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
Boyhood recollections of life in Tavistock before, during and after WW2.
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN: 144563130X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
Boyhood recollections of life in Tavistock before, during and after WW2.
Time Tables of the Great Western Railway
Author: Great Western Railway (Great Britain)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
The South Eastern & Chatham Railway
The Great Western & Great Central Joint Railwasy and the Bicester Cut-Off, from Opening to the Present Day
The Railways of the Channel Islands
Author: N. R. P. Bonsor
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description