Author: Polycarp
Publisher: Polycarp Journals
ISBN: 0957232918
Category : Black people
Languages : en
Pages : 42
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Croydon's Front Line
Author: Polycarp
Publisher: Polycarp Journals
ISBN: 0957232918
Category : Black people
Languages : en
Pages : 42
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Publisher: Polycarp Journals
ISBN: 0957232918
Category : Black people
Languages : en
Pages : 42
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Frontline
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Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 1264
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Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 1264
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The Railway Magazine
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Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 552
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Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 552
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The World's First Railway System
Author: Mark Casson
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191570419
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 560
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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.
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191570419
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 560
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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.
Croydon and the Great War
Author: Henry Keatley Moore
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Category : Croydon (London)
Languages : en
Pages : 610
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Category : Croydon (London)
Languages : en
Pages : 610
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Croydon Tramlink
Author: Gareth David
Publisher: Pen and Sword Transport
ISBN: 1526719568
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 202
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Croydon Tramlink is a new history about the network linking Wimbledon with Croydon in South London. This is the first full history of this fascinating tramway, which is about to celebrate its twentieth anniversary of opening. The book looks at the political, economic and social aspects of the network, as well as the mechanical history of the system. The tramway has been an important aspect in rejuvenating the Croydon area and improving transport links in an area lacking underground lines.
Publisher: Pen and Sword Transport
ISBN: 1526719568
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 202
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Croydon Tramlink is a new history about the network linking Wimbledon with Croydon in South London. This is the first full history of this fascinating tramway, which is about to celebrate its twentieth anniversary of opening. The book looks at the political, economic and social aspects of the network, as well as the mechanical history of the system. The tramway has been an important aspect in rejuvenating the Croydon area and improving transport links in an area lacking underground lines.
Inland Transit
Author: Nicholas Wilcox Cundy
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Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 184
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Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 184
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Railway Times
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Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 1260
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Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 1260
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Minutes of Evidence Given Before the Select Committee on Railway Bills, (group A), on the North Kent Lines, by the South-eastern, North Kent (Vignoles), and London and Croydon Railway Companies. 1845
Author: Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Select Committee on Railway Bills
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Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 608
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Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 608
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The Sussex County Magazine
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Category : Sussex (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 614
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Category : Sussex (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 614
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