British Rail, 1948-83
Author | : Brian Haresnape |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 198 |
Release | : 1983 |
Genre | : Transportation |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Brian Haresnape |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 198 |
Release | : 1983 |
Genre | : Transportation |
ISBN | : |
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 | : Brian Haresnape |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 176 |
Release | : 1979-01-01 |
Genre | : Industrial design |
ISBN | : 9780711009820 |
Author | : Patrick Bruce Whitehouse |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 64 |
Release | : 1976 |
Genre | : Railroads |
ISBN | : 9780711006935 |
Author | : Benjamin Fraser |
Publisher | : Lexington Books |
Total Pages | : 323 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0739167499 |
Trains, Culture and Mobility: Riding the Rails goes beyond textual representations of rail travel to engage an impressive range of political, sociological and urban theory. Taken together, these essays highlight the complexity of the modern experience of train mobility, and its salient relation to a number of cultural discourses. Incorporating traditionally marginal areas of cultural production such as graffiti, museums, architecture or even plunging into the social experience of travel inside the traincar itself, each essay constitutes an attempt to work from the act of riding the train toward questions of much larger significance. Crisscrossing cultures from the New World and Old, from East and West, these essays share a common preoccupation with the way in which trains and railway networks have mapped and re-mapped the contours of both cities and states in the modern period. Bringing together individual and large-scale social practices, this volume traces out the cultural implications of "Riding the Rails."
Author | : Russell Haywood |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 434 |
Release | : 2016-03-23 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1317071646 |
This book provides a critical overview of the relationships between planning and railway management and development during the key period in the 20th Century when the railway was in public ownership: 1948-94. It assesses the strength of the relationships when working in collaboration with the private sector. The book then focuses on the interplay between planning and railway since privatization in 1994 and points to best practice for the future in institutional structures and policy development to secure improved outcomes.
Author | : Terence Richard Gourvish |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 770 |
Release | : 2004-01-29 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780199269099 |
Based on privileged access to the British Railway Board's rich archives, this book provides and authoritative account of the progress made by the British Railway System prior to its privatization. It offers a unique account of the last fifteen years of nationalized railways in Britain, and it sheds light on the current problems of privatized railway systems. This volume is divided into four complete and concise sections for complete study: 'Railways Under Labour (1974-1979)', 'The Thatcher Revolution (British Rail in the 1980's)', 'On The Threshold of Privatization: Running the Railways (1990-1994)', and 'Responding to Privatization (1981-1997)'. Author Terry Gourvish is considered Britain's leading railway historian.