Government The Railways And The Modernization Of Britain
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Author | : Charles Loft |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 460 |
Release | : 2006-09-27 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1135773653 |
More than 40 years after its publication, the 1963 Beeching Report on British railways remains controversial for recommending the closure of a third of Britain’s railways. In this book, Charles Loft examines: why the nationalized railways were in such dire financial straits by 1963 how government work on future transport needs led to conclusions which would have cut Britain’s railways down by thousands of miles what difficulties eventually halted attempts by Conservative and Labour governments to implement these cuts. This book will be invaluable to anyone interested in how transport policy is made or how it has arrived at its current state and sheds fascinating new light on the working of government, the economy and the mood of the times under Churchill, Eden, Macmillan and Wilson.
Author | : Derek H. Aldcroft |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 265 |
Release | : 1968-06-18 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1349007080 |
Author | : T. R. Gourvish |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 1690 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0521264804 |
Originally published in 1986, this is a business history of the first twenty-five years of nationalised railways in Britain. Commissioned by the British Railways Board and based on the Board's extensive archives, it fully analyses the dynamics of nationalised industry management and the complexities of the vital relationship with government. After exploring the origins of nationalisation, the book deals with the organisation, financial performance, investment and commercial policies of the British Transport Commission (1948-2), Railway Executive (1948-53) and British Railways Board (1963-73). Calculations of profit and loss, investment, and productivity are provided on a consistent basis for 1948-73. This business history thus represents a major contribution not only to the debate about the role of the railways in a modern economy but also to that concerning the nationalised industries, which have proved to be one of the most enduring problems of the British economy since the war.
Author | : Henry Parris |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1965 |
Genre | : Railroads |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Frank Cass Publishers |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9780714682792 |
This work explains the background to the infamous Beeching Report, which recommended the closure of a third of Britain's railways.
Author | : Geoffrey Channon |
Publisher | : Ashgate Publishing |
Total Pages | : 374 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : |
In a series of focused, thematic essays, the book examines railways as the first modern big businesses in Britain and the United States.
Author | : A. K. B. Evans |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 348 |
Release | : 2017-03-02 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1351887831 |
Jack Simmons, perhaps more than any other single scholar, is responsible for the advancement of the academic study of transport history. As well as being a co-founder of the Journal of Transport History, he wrote extensively on a variety of transport-related topics and was instrumental in developing the London Transport and the National Railway museums. Whilst his death in September 2000 at the age of 85 was a sad loss to the world of transport history, the achievements of his life, celebrated in this festschrift, remain a lasting legacy to succeeding generations of scholars in many fields. Concentrating on the theme of the railways, and how they dramatically affected the development of Britain and her society, this collection touches on numerous issues first highlighted by Professor Simmons which are now central to academic study. These include the men who built the railways, those who financed the enterprise, how the railways affected such everyday issues as tourism, the arts, and politics, as well as the lasting legacy of the railways in a country now dominated by the private car. This volume written by former friends, students and colleagues of Professor Simmons reflects these interests, and provides a fitting tribute to one of the truly great British historians of the twentieth century.
Author | : Richard Graham |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 404 |
Release | : 1968-07-02 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780521070782 |
This is a detailed study of British influence in Brazil as a theme within the larger story of modernization. The British were involved at key points in the initial stages of modernization. Their hold upon the import-export economy tended to slow down industrialization, and there were other areas in which their presence acted as a brake upon Brazilian modernization. But the British also fostered change. British railways provided primary stimulus to the growth of coffee exports, and since the British did not monopolize coffee production, a large proportion of the profits remained in Brazilian hands for other uses. Furthermore, the burgeoning coffee economy shattered traditional economic, social and political relationships, opening up the way for other areas of growth. The British role was not confined to economic development. They also contributed to the growth of 'a modern world-view'. Spencerianism and the idea of progress, for instance, were not exotic and meaningless imports, but an integral part of the transformation Brazil was experiencing.
Author | : T. R. Gourvish |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 844 |
Release | : 2011-04-28 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780521188838 |
Originally published in 1986, this is a business history of the first twenty-five years of nationalised railways in Britain. Commissioned by the British Railways Board and based on the Board's extensive archives, it fully analyses the dynamics of nationalised industry management and the complexities of the vital relationship with government. After exploring the origins of nationalisation, the book deals with the organisation, financial performance, investment and commercial policies of the British Transport Commission (1948-2), Railway Executive (1948-53) and British Railways Board (1963-73). Calculations of profit and loss, investment, and productivity are provided on a consistent basis for 1948-73. This business history thus represents a major contribution not only to the debate about the role of the railways in a modern economy but also to that concerning the nationalised industries, which have proved to be one of the most enduring problems of the British economy since the war.
Author | : Edwin A. Pratt |
Publisher | : London : Selwyn and Blount |
Total Pages | : 582 |
Release | : 1921 |
Genre | : Railroads |
ISBN | : |