Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 1484
Book Description
Bradshaw's Railway Gazette
Author:
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ISBN:
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 1484
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 1484
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Railroad Gazette
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Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 982
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Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 982
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Railway Gazette
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Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 1422
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Publisher:
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Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 1422
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The Railway Gazette
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Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 876
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Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 876
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Monthly Bulletin
Author: International Railway Congress Association
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Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 1706
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Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 1706
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From Rail to Road and Back Again?
Author: Colin Divall
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317131851
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 473
Book Description
The coming of the railways signalled the transformation of European society, allowing the quick and cheap mass transportation of people and goods on a previously unimaginable scale. By the early decades of the twentieth century, however, the domination of rail transport was threatened by increased motorised road transport which would quickly surpass and eclipse the trains, only itself to be challenged in the twenty-first century by a renewal of interest in railways. Yet, as the studies in this volume make clear, to view the relationship between road and rail as a simple competition between two rival forms of transportation, is a mistake. Rail transport did not vanish in the twentieth century any more than road transport vanished in the nineteenth with the appearance of the railways. Instead a mutual interdependence has always existed, balancing the strengths and weaknesses of each system. It is that interdependence that forms the major theme of this collection. Divided into two main sections, the first part of the book offers a series of chapters examining how railway companies reacted to increasing competition from road transport, and exploring the degree to which railways depended on road transportation at different times and places. Part two focuses on road mobility, interpreting it as the innovative success story of the twentieth century. Taken together, these essays provide a fascinating reappraisal of the complex and shifting nature of European transportation over the last one hundred years.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317131851
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 473
Book Description
The coming of the railways signalled the transformation of European society, allowing the quick and cheap mass transportation of people and goods on a previously unimaginable scale. By the early decades of the twentieth century, however, the domination of rail transport was threatened by increased motorised road transport which would quickly surpass and eclipse the trains, only itself to be challenged in the twenty-first century by a renewal of interest in railways. Yet, as the studies in this volume make clear, to view the relationship between road and rail as a simple competition between two rival forms of transportation, is a mistake. Rail transport did not vanish in the twentieth century any more than road transport vanished in the nineteenth with the appearance of the railways. Instead a mutual interdependence has always existed, balancing the strengths and weaknesses of each system. It is that interdependence that forms the major theme of this collection. Divided into two main sections, the first part of the book offers a series of chapters examining how railway companies reacted to increasing competition from road transport, and exploring the degree to which railways depended on road transportation at different times and places. Part two focuses on road mobility, interpreting it as the innovative success story of the twentieth century. Taken together, these essays provide a fascinating reappraisal of the complex and shifting nature of European transportation over the last one hundred years.
Bulletin of the International Railway Congress Association
Author: International Railway Congress Association
Publisher:
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Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 4142
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Publisher:
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Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 4142
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Miscellaneous Series
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Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 510
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Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 510
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The Railway
Author: Andrew Dow
Publisher: Wharncliffe
ISBN: 1473841070
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 1174
Book Description
“A comprehensive and detailed history the railway and development from tram road to the modern era. . . . A must read” (The Newcomen Society Western Courier). Never before has a comprehensive history been written of the track used by railways of all gauges, tramways, and cliff railways, in Great Britain. And yet it was the development of track, every bit as much as the development of the locomotive, that has allowed our railways to provide an extraordinarily wide range of services. Without the track of today, with its laser-guided maintenance machines, the TGV and the Eurostar could not cruise smoothly at 272 feet per second, nor could 2,000-ton freight trains carry a wide range of materials, or suburban railways, over and under the ground, serve our great cities in a way that roads never could. Andrew Dows account of the development of track, involving deep research in the papers of professional institutions as well as rare books, company records and personal accounts, paints a vivid picture of development from primitive beginnings to modernity. The book contains nearly 200 specially-commissioned drawings as well as many photographs of track in its very many forms since the appearance of the steam locomotive in 1804. Included are chapters on electrified railways, and on the development of mechanised maintenance, which revolutionised the world of the platelayer.
Publisher: Wharncliffe
ISBN: 1473841070
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 1174
Book Description
“A comprehensive and detailed history the railway and development from tram road to the modern era. . . . A must read” (The Newcomen Society Western Courier). Never before has a comprehensive history been written of the track used by railways of all gauges, tramways, and cliff railways, in Great Britain. And yet it was the development of track, every bit as much as the development of the locomotive, that has allowed our railways to provide an extraordinarily wide range of services. Without the track of today, with its laser-guided maintenance machines, the TGV and the Eurostar could not cruise smoothly at 272 feet per second, nor could 2,000-ton freight trains carry a wide range of materials, or suburban railways, over and under the ground, serve our great cities in a way that roads never could. Andrew Dows account of the development of track, involving deep research in the papers of professional institutions as well as rare books, company records and personal accounts, paints a vivid picture of development from primitive beginnings to modernity. The book contains nearly 200 specially-commissioned drawings as well as many photographs of track in its very many forms since the appearance of the steam locomotive in 1804. Included are chapters on electrified railways, and on the development of mechanised maintenance, which revolutionised the world of the platelayer.
The Great Northern Railway
Author:
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 1452907102
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
Written by historians at Harvard Business School, Mississippi State U., and St. Cloud State U. (Minn.), this history details the development and day- to-day affairs of this powerful business, and the careers of the main figures instrumental in its operation. This definitive work, first published by
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 1452907102
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
Written by historians at Harvard Business School, Mississippi State U., and St. Cloud State U. (Minn.), this history details the development and day- to-day affairs of this powerful business, and the careers of the main figures instrumental in its operation. This definitive work, first published by