Author: Roger DaveyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
East Sussex Parliamentary Deposited Plans, 1799-1970
Author: Roger DaveyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 292
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.
East Sussex Coroners' Records 1688-1838
Author: R. F. HunnisettPublisher: Steve Parish
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
Sussex Record Society
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : East Sussex (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
Contains Annual report of the Society.
East Sussex Church Monuments, 1530-1830
Author: Nigel LlewellynPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : East Sussex (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 608
Book Description
Contains Annual report of the Society.
Sussex in the First World War
Author: Keith GrievesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
Winchelsea Poor Law Records, 1790-1841
Author: Malcolm PrattPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Poor laws
Languages : en
Pages : 426
Book Description
Contains Annual report of the Society.
The Local Historian
Author: Sussex Cricket in the Eighteenth Century
Author: Timothy J. McCannPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cricket
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
Prints in chronological order all known references to 18th century cricket in Sussex or played by Sussex teams, recorded in local and national newspapers, diaries, correspondence and accounts of the period. The introduction reproduces all known references to cricket in Sussex in the 17th century.
Publications
Author: Sussex Record SocietyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Sussex (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description