Author: Railway Clearing House
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
Railway Junction Diagrams, 1915
Author: Railway Clearing House
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
Railway Junction Diagrams, 1915
Author: Railway Clearing House
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780715343470
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 165
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780715343470
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 165
Book Description
Railway junction diagrams
Author: Railway Clearing House
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 165
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 165
Book Description
A Railroad Atlas of the United States in 1946
Author: Richard C. Carpenter
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 9780801880780
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Containing 202 hand-drawn color maps of every railroad line in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia, and the District of Columbia, this book provides a unique record of a time when passenger trains still made stops in every town and freight trains carried the bulk of the nation's cargo. Drawn at a scale of 1 inch to 4 miles, the maps include main and branch passenger and freight lines, former steam locomotive and manual signal tower stations, towns that functioned as crew change points, track pans, coaling stations, and a variety of indexes of railroad features. Carpenter is a longtime observer and collector of railroad history. This is the first volume in a series that eventually will provide the first comprehensive atlas of the U.S. post-World War II railroad system. Annotation (c)2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 9780801880780
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Containing 202 hand-drawn color maps of every railroad line in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia, and the District of Columbia, this book provides a unique record of a time when passenger trains still made stops in every town and freight trains carried the bulk of the nation's cargo. Drawn at a scale of 1 inch to 4 miles, the maps include main and branch passenger and freight lines, former steam locomotive and manual signal tower stations, towns that functioned as crew change points, track pans, coaling stations, and a variety of indexes of railroad features. Carpenter is a longtime observer and collector of railroad history. This is the first volume in a series that eventually will provide the first comprehensive atlas of the U.S. post-World War II railroad system. Annotation (c)2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).
Railway junction diagrams. Supplement [afterw.] Supplement to the book of railway junction diagrams
Author: Railway clearing house
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
The World's First Railway System
Author: Mark Casson
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191570419
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 556
Book Description
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 : 556
Book Description
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.
The Railway Magazine
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 1194
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 1194
Book Description
The Railway in Town and Country, 1830-1914
Author: Jack Simmons
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 410
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 410
Book Description
General Catalogue of Printed Books
Author: British Museum. Dept. of Printed Books
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 560
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 560
Book Description
Guinness Rail, the Records
Author: John Marshall
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780851124476
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780851124476
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description