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Author : William Cunningham
Publisher : Dumfermline, Romanes
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1906
Category : Government ownership
ISBN : UOM:39015021123644
Author : William Cunningham
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 70 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1903
Category : Railroads and state
ISBN : HARVARD:32044024493595
Author : William Cunningham (Archdeacon of Ely.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1906
Category : Railroads and state
ISBN : NYPL:33433009851225
Author : W. Cunningham
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2017-10-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0266207359
Excerpt from Should Our Railways Be Nationalised? Business, he would not do any more with me. He said I had sent on the invoice a week before the goods, he had to go and pay retail price for them to keep his word. It asserted that the goods were given to the Railways the day the invoice was dated, but he said he could not believe the Railways would take eleven days to carry a parcel 400 miles. I protested my innocence, but to no purpose. This part of the drama annoyed and irritated me. Not only had I lost the customer, but in his estimation any virtue I might have for telling the truth. This incident having been so strongly impressed upon my memory, I retailed it over in the Commercial Rooms and to my customers here and there, till I found that I was not by any means the only one that had had goods lost, stolen, or strayed on our railways. SO I made up my mind that I would try to probe the cause of these delays a little further. Tvhen I got home I went to our Dunfermline goods agent and asked him if he would try to find out the reason or cause of the delay. He said he would try. Some two months after, he came to our warehouse and made a statement something like this -oh the first day the Cardiff truss got to Leith' Walk transferring station the second day it was put into a Carlisle wagon, and got into Carlisle on the third day the Midland on the fourth day could not load a wagon for' Gloucester, and kept it over till the fifth that day they put it in a wagon for Derby. A day again was lost here, and on the seventh day it was sent on to Gloucester, got there on the ninth, and was Offered to my customer on the eleventh, and rejected. This story excited my curiosity more than ever. Why was it the Midland did not send on the cwt. Truss at once to Gloucester Because they had not enough goods to load a wagon to the West of England. Next day they were in the same position, but they put it into a wagon that was loaded for Derby, and so on. On thinking the matter over, it seemed clear to me that the trouble lay in the fact that we had three trunk lines contending for the Scotch trade to the W'est O England, and, the trade from Scotland not being very big or heavy, all the three systems were not able to load a wagon each every twenty-four hours, the result being that small parcels of no. 2, 3, 4, and 5 class goods had to be laid aside, or sent from point to point and transferred from one wagon to the other, till six, eleven, and sometimes fifteen days are taken to deliver a truss or box not 200 miles from where it started. It struck me then, and I am of the same Opinion still, that if our railways were all in one pool or belonged to the State, the above classes of goods travelling say one to 400 miles would be all sent to. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : Association of American Railroads. Bureau of Railway Economics
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1914
Category : Railroads and state
ISBN : UOM:39015021095701
Author : W. (William) 1849-1919 Cunningham
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2016-08-27
Category : History
ISBN : 1363711881
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 724 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Engineering
ISBN : UOM:39015009220396
Author : Edwin A. Pratt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1911
Category : Railroads and state
ISBN : UOM:39015020921154
Author : Steven J. Ericson
Publisher : Harvard Univ Asia Center
Page : 548 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 067482167X
Steven Ericson has written what promises to be the most thorough study of the Japanese railroad industry in the English language. In addition to the body of research on the industry itself, Ericson has provided an astute analysis of the politics of development and the relationship between state and private enterprise in the Japanese railroad industry during the Meiji period. He explores the economic role of government and the nature of state-business relations in the course of Japan's modern transformation, and at the same time challenges the tendency of current scholarship to minimize the role of the Japanese government as well as commercial banks in Meiji industrialization. By providing a fresh perspective on the "strong state/weak state" debate through detailed analysis of the 1906-1907 railway nationalization, Ericson's study sheds new light on the Meiji origins of modern Japanese industrial policy and politics, filling a major gap in the available literature on the Meiji political economy.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 632 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Railroads
ISBN : PRNC:32101076428539
Author : John A. McGregor
Publisher : Birlinn Ltd
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2005-08-19
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9781788855723
The West Highland Railway, which opened to Fort William in 1894 and to Mallaig in 1901, follows a scenic route by Loch Lomond, Breadalbane and Lochaber to the west coast of Scotland and is one of the most famous railway lines in the world. This book describes the late-nineteenth-century 'railway mania' in the Highlands, addressing the politics of promotion and the disputes over state assistance for the Fort William–Mallaig line, rather than the heroics and the romance of construction and operation. It discusses the uneasy alliances and battles between the railway companies of Scotland, as well as those between Scottish lines and their English counterparts. It also reviews other schemes, more or less successful, and examines the expectations bound up with railway development, asking how far these had been achieved, or remained relevant, by 1914. 'This is a meticulously researched book . . . a unique and comprehensive history of the origins of the West Highland Railway . . . an essential addition to the library of anyone with an interest in Scottish railway history' - Ewan Crawford, University of Glasgow 'a fascinating and revealing study of rail development issues in the western Highlands between the 1840s and 1914' - Tom Hart, University of Glasgow
Author : Edwin A. Pratt
Publisher : London Collins' Clear-type Press [1913?]
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1913
Category : Railroads
ISBN : UCAL:$B262897
Author : Christian Wolmar
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2018-11-01
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9781788540247
The story of an engineering marvel of the twenty-first century, from Britain's bestselling railway writer. Crossrail, first conceived just after the Second World War in the era of Attlee and Churchill, has cost more than £15bn and is expected to serve 200 million passengers annually. From Reading and Heathrow in the west, the Elizabeth line will extend to Shenfield and Abbey Wood in the east, including 42 kilometres of new tunnels dug under central London. The author sets out the complex and highly political reasons for Crossrail's lengthy gestation, tracing the troubled progress of the concept from the rejection of the first Crossrail bill in the 1990s through the tortuous parliamentary processes that led to the passing of the Crossrail Act of 2008. He also recounts in detail the construction of this astonishing new railway, describing how immense tunnel-boring machines cut through a subterranean world of rock and mud with unparalleled accuracy that ensured none of the buildings overhead were affected. A shrewdly incisive observer of postwar transport policy, Wolmar pays due credit to the remarkable achievement of Crossrail, while analysing in clear-eyed fashion the many setbacks it encountered en route to completion. With a new afterword to mark the opening of Crossrail in 2022.
Author : Di Drummond
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2010-06-15
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781844686704
Di Drummond's concise and informative guide to Britain's railways will be absorbing reading for anyone who wants to learn about the history of the industry and for family history researchers who want to find out about the careers of their railway ancestors. In a clear and accessible way she guides readers through the social, technical and economic aspects of the story. She describes in vivid detail the rapid growth, maturity and long decline of the railways from the earliest days in the late-eighteenth century to privatization in the 1990s. In the process she covers the themes and issues that family historians, local historians and railway enthusiasts will need to understand in order to pursue their research. A sequence of short, fact-filled chapters gives an all-round view of the development of the railwaysIn addition to tracing the birth and growth of the original railway companies, she portrays the types of work that railwaymen did and pays particular attention to the railway world in which they spent their working lives. The tasks they undertook, the special skills they had to learn, the conditions they worked in, the organization and hierarchy of the railway companies, and the make-up of railway unions - all these elements in the history of the railways are covered. She also introduces the reader to the variety of records that are available for genealogical research - staff records and registers, publications, census returns, biographies and autobiographies, and the rest of the extensive literature devoted to the railway industry.
Author : E. Eldon Barry
Publisher : London : Jonathan Cape
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : Government ownership
ISBN : UOM:39015009128599