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Author : John Johnson,Robert A. Long,Roland Curling Bond
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 658 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : UOM:39015015458188
Author : John Johnson,Robert A. Long,Roland Curling Bond
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 656 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Railroad engineering
ISBN : UCAL:B4342192
Author : T. R. Gourvish,N. Blake
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 1690 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780521264808
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 : Greg Morse
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 113 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2013-08-10
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9780747814092
For British Rail, the 1970s was a time of contrasts, when bad jokes about sandwiches and pork pies often belied real achievements, like increasing computerisation and the arrival of the high-speed Inter-City 125s. But while television advertisements told of an 'Age of the Train', Monday morning misery continued for many, the commuter experience steadily worsening as rolling stock aged and grew ever more uncomfortable. Even when BR launched new electrification schemes and new suburban trains in the 1980s, focus still fell on the problems that beset the Advanced Passenger Train, whose ignominious end came under full media glare. In British Railways in the 1970s and '80s, Greg Morse guides us through a world of Traveller's Fare, concrete concourses and peak-capped porters, a difficult period that began with the aftershock of Beeching but ended with BR becoming the first nationalised passenger network in the world to make a profit.
Author : Greg Morse
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2016-07-28
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9781784421793
After the Second World War, the drive for the modernisation of Britain's railways ushered in a new breed of locomotive: the Diesel. Diesel-powered trains had been around for some time, but faced with a coal crisis and the Clean Air Act in the 1950s, it was seen as a part of the solution for British Rail. This beautifully illustrated book, written by an expert on rail history, charts the rise and decline of Britain's diesel-powered locomotives. It covers a period of great change and experimentation, where the iconic steam engines that had dominated for a century were replaced by a series of modern diesels including the ill-fated 'Westerns' and the more successful 'Deltics'.
Author : Greg Morse
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 106 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2012-09-20
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9780747812623
As Britain moved from austerity to prosperity in the 1950s and 1960s, it became clear that British Railways needed to modernise its equipment and rationalise its network if it was to hold its own in the face of growing competition from road and air transport. After attempting to maintain pre-war networks and technology in the 1950s, a reversal of policy in the 1960s brought line closures, new liveries and the last breath of steam, as Dr Beeching and his successors strove to break even and build a new business from the old. From Britannia to the 'Blue Pullman', Evening Star to Inter-City, Greg Morse takes us through this turbulent twenty-year period, which started with drab prospects and ended with BR poised to launch the fastest diesel-powered train in the world.
Author : Francis Goodall,Terry Gourvish,Steven Tolliday
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 685 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2013-12-16
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781136138201
The field of business history has changed and grown dramatically over the last few years. There is less interest in the traditional `company-centred' approach and more concern about the wider business context. With the growth of multi-national corporations in the 1980s, international and inter-firm comparisons have gained in importance. In addition, there has been a move towards improving links with mainstream economic, financial and social history through techniques and outlook. The International Bibliography of Business History brings all of the strands together and provides the user with a comprehensive guide to the literature in the field. The Bibliography is a unique volume which covers the depth and breadth of research in business history. This exhaustive volume has been compiled by a team of subject specialists from around the world under the editorship of three prestigious business historians.
Author : Edgar J. Larkin
Publisher : Springer
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1988-06-18
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781349080748
An illustrated history of Britain's railway workshops, covering the period from 1823 to 1986, this book deals with the history of the main railway workshops of Britain, a subject of wide-ranging mechanical and electrical engineering interest.
Author : Peter Tuffrey,B. W. L. Brooksbank
Publisher : Fonthill Media
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2022-07-02
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
• The first detailed study of this huge mainline through its operational history • Features extended commentaries from the authors, rich in detail • Superbly illustrated with black and white photographs, many never seen before In this second and final volume, the whole of the East Coast Main Line between King’s Cross and Edinburgh Waverley stations is examined closely, with a particular emphasis on the ways and structures: the line, stations, connections, yards, and other physical features. Interposed are accounts of the traffic at the principal stations – including connecting and branch line services – with observations on changes over the period 1939 to 1959. Some emphasis is placed on freight traffic on account of its importance and, perhaps, its relative unfamiliarity to the reader. The lines, stations and many other elements are described as they were in August 1939, but as some plans on which they are based are dated before the late 1930s, there may be marginal differences from the precise layout in 1939.
Author : Michael R. Bonavia
Publisher : Springer
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1987-06-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781349087938
Author : Clara Eugenia Núñez
Publisher : Universidad de Sevilla
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Railroads
ISBN : 8447204502
Author : John Palmer
Publisher : Pen and Sword Transport
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2022-08-09
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9781526791832
Throughout its length from London to Glasgow via Crewe and Carlisle, with a loop through the West Midlands and spurs to Holyhead,Liverpool and Manchester, the West Coast Main Line has consistently provided interest for those many with more than a passing interest in trains and travel. This book outlines the history of the route,its physical characteristics and sets the scene for the various passenger and goods traffic flows that sustained it; it then details the arrangements for motive power and train working through the era of change that was 1957 to 1963. The level of interest - as evidenced daily by the presence at the lineside of hordes of young spotters and other observers - was particularly high at that time as processions of trains hauled by fine express passenger locomotives and those more suited to other traffic passed by. The book also goes 'behind the scenes' to provide insights into the daily and seasonal challenges of managing that section of a wider railway network, as directed by the varying terms of relevant legislation, and a government increasingly concerned to shape the railways for the changing needs of the public, industry and the economy. The book will be of particular interest to those who simply recall those days by the lineside, those with an interest in detailed arrangements to provide and maintain suitable motive power, those with an interest in how the railway served the needs of the nation and modellers who seek information. The book is illustrated with color and monochrome images and supported by maps.
Author : Greg Morse
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2017-04-15
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9781445665771
The decade when steam gave way to diesels on Britain’s railways is fondly remembered by thousands of baby boomers who are now Britain’s greatest train lovers.
Author : Brian Haresnape
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Transportation
ISBN : STANFORD:36105039746966
Author : Greg Morse
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
Page : 133 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2018-08-15
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9781445679204
The decade of crimson and cream coaches and black and red locomotives, the 1950s was a decade of renewal and optimism on Britain’s rails, here encapsulated by Greg Morse in full colour.
