The Impact Of The Railway On Society In Britain

Author : A. K. B. Evans,J.V. Gough
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2017-03-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351887830

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The Impact of the Railway on Society in Britain by A. K. B. Evans,J.V. Gough Pdf

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 : John R. Kellett
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2014-06-23
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317850915

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The Impact of Railways on Victorian Cities by John R. Kellett Pdf

First published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Matthew Beaumont,Michael J. Freeman
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 3039110241

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The Railway and Modernity by Matthew Beaumont,Michael J. Freeman Pdf

Most research and writing on railway history has been undertaken in a way that disconnects it from the wider cultural milieu. Authors have been very effective at constructing specialist histories of transport, but have failed to register the railway's central importance in the representation and understanding of modernity. This book brings together contributions from a range of established scholars in a variety of disciplines with the central purpose of exploring the railway less as a transport technology than as a key signifier of capitalist modernity. It examines the complex social relations in which the railway became historically embedded, identifying it as a central problematic in the cultural experience of modernity. It avoids the limitations of both the close-sighted empiricism typical of many transport historians and the long-sighted generalizations of cultural commentators who view the railway merely as a shorthand for the concept of progress over the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The book draws on a diverse range of materials, including literary and historical forms of representation. It is also informed by a creative application of various critical theories.

Author : Derek H. Aldcroft
Publisher : Springer
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1968-06-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781349007080

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British Railways in Transition by Derek H. Aldcroft Pdf

Author : Christian Wolmar
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2019-12-12
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9781788549837

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Railways by Christian Wolmar Pdf

From Britain's most popular railway historian, a concise, authoritative and fast-paced telling of how the railways changed the world. The arrival of the railways in the first half of the nineteenth century and their subsequent spread across every one of the world's continents acted as a spur for economic growth and social change on an extraordinary scale. The 'iron road' stimulated innovation in engineering and architecture, enabled people and goods to move around the world more quickly than ever before, and played a critical role in warfare as well as in the social and economic spheres. Christian Wolmar describes the emergence of modern railways in both Britain and the USA in the 1830s, and elsewhere in the following decade. He charts the surge in railway investment plans in Britain in the early 1840s and the ensuing 'railway mania' (which created the backbone of today's railway network), and the unstoppable spread of the railways across Europe, America and Asia. Above all, he assesses the global impact of a technology that, arguably, had the most transformative impact on human society of any before the coming of the Internet, and which, as it approaches two centuries of existence, continues to play a key role in human society in the twenty-first century. 'A lucid and engaging account of the far-reaching effects that trains have had upon society' The Railway & Canal Historical Society

Author : Ian Carter
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Art
ISBN : 0719059666

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Railways and Culture in Britain by Ian Carter Pdf

The 19th-century steam railway epitomized modernity's relentlessly onrushing advance. Ian Carter delves into the cultural impact of the train. Why, for example, did Britain possess no great railway novel? He compares fiction and images by canonical British figures (Turner, Dickens, Arnold Bennett) with selected French and Russian competitors: Tolstoy, Zola, Monet, Manet. He argues that while high cultural work on the British steam railway is thin, British popular culture did not ignore it. Detailed discussions of comic fiction, crime fiction, and cartoons reveal a popular fascination with railways tumbling from vast (and hitherto unexplored) stores of critically overlooked genres.

Author : David L. Brandon,Alan Brooke
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 655 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2019-04-30
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9781526700223

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The Railway Haters by David L. Brandon,Alan Brooke Pdf

This unique social history examines 200 years of controversy surrounding British Railways—from the dawn of industrialization to contemporary light rail. During the Industrial Revolution, the power of landowning aristocrats was challenged by the emergent wealth and influence of the urban middle class. There was no greater symbol of this seismic shift in society than the British Railways Companies. Railways, with their powers of compulsory purchase, intruded brutally into the previously sacrosanct estates and pleasure grounds of Britain's traditional ruling elite. Aesthetes like Ruskin and poets like Wordsworth ranted against railways; Sabbatarians attacked them for providing employment on the Lord's Day; antiquarians accused them of vandalism by destroying ancient buildings; others claimed their noise would make cows abort and chickens cease laying. And while the complaints have certainly changed, railways have continued to provoke debate ever since. Arguments have raged over railway nationalization and privatization, about the Beeching Plan to increase efficiency, and around urban light rail systems. Examining railways from their beginnings to the present, this book provides insights into social, economic and political attitudes and emphasizes both change and continuity over 200 years.

Author : Mark Casson
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2009-09-10
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780191570414

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The World's First Railway System by Mark Casson Pdf

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.

Author : Charles Loft
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2006-09-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135773656

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Government, the Railways and the Modernization of Britain by Charles Loft Pdf

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 : David Gwyn
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2023-05-23
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9780300271454

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The Coming of the Railway by David Gwyn Pdf

The first global history of the epic early days of the iron railway Railways, in simple wooden or stone form, have existed since prehistory. But from the 1750s onward the introduction of iron rails led to a dramatic technological evolution—one that would truly change the world. In this rich new history, David Gwyn tells the neglected story of the early iron railway from a global perspective. Driven by a combination of ruthless enterprise, brilliant experimenters, and international cooperation, railway construction began to expand across the world with astonishing rapidity. From Britain to Australia, Russia to America, railways would bind together cities, nations, and entire continents. Rail was a tool of industry and empire as well as, eventually, passenger transport, and developments in technology occurred at breakneck speed—even if the first locomotive in America could muster only 6 mph. The Coming of the Railway explores these fascinating developments, documenting the early railway’s outsize social, political, and economic impact—carving out the shape of the global economy as we know it today.

Author : David Hey
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 704 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2010-02-25
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9780191044939

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The Oxford Companion to Family and Local History by David Hey Pdf

The Oxford Companion to Family and Local History is the most authoritative guide available to all things associated with the family and local history of the British Isles. It provides practical and contextual information for anyone enquiring into their English, Irish, Scottish, or Welsh origins and for anyone working in genealogical research, or the social history of the British Isles. This fully revised and updated edition contains over 2,000 entries from adoption to World War records. Recommended web links for many entries are accessed and updated via the Family and Local History companion website. This edition provides guidance on how to research your family tree using the internet and details the full range of online resources available. Newly structured for ease of use, thematic articles are followed by the A-Z dictionary and detailed appendices, which includefurther reading. New articles for this edition are: A Guide for Beginners, Links between British and American Families, Black and Asian Family History, and an extended feature on Names. With handy research tips, a full background to the social history of communities and individuals, and an updated appendix listing all national and local record offices with their contact details, this is an essential reference work for anyone wanting advice on how to approach genealogical research, as well as a fascinating read for anyone interested in the past.

Author : Peter Ginn,Ruth Goodman
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2016-07-28
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9780008194321

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Full Steam Ahead: How the Railways Made Britain by Peter Ginn,Ruth Goodman Pdf

The Age of Railways was an era of extraordinary change which utterly transformed every aspect of British life – from trade and transportation to health and recreation.

Author : C. Douglas Campbell
Publisher : London, P. S. King & son, Limited
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1932
Category : Business cycles
ISBN : UOM:39015020921261

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British Railways in Boom and Depression by C. Douglas Campbell Pdf

Author : H J PERKIN
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2016-08-18
Category : History
ISBN : 1911204238

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The Age of the Railway. A Social History of 19th Century Britain. by H J PERKIN Pdf

This well-illustrated work by a distinguished social historian narrates the epic of the great age of railway history and development. It sets this in the context of the social history and its contemporary impact on society as a whole. It shows authoritatively how the railways revolutionised everything - being the most spectacular change of the Industrial Revolution. This impact continues to shape our life today, as the railways transformed the economic life of whole nations and transformed the quality of life itself.

Author : Andrew Murray
Publisher : Verso
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Privatization
ISBN : 1859846408

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Off the Rails by Andrew Murray Pdf

A damning indictment of the chaos on the British railways.