The Railway Surveyors. The story of railway property management, 1800-1990

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Sponsored by British Rail Property Board for general and specialist interest. Deals with an apparently neglected but wide ranging aspect of railway history - the acquisition of property for the building of railways, its use, its subsequent management and the role of the emergent property surveying profession in this. Has chapters: 1] 'Antecedents' - wagonways, canals, etc; 2] 'Promoting a railway' - promoters, the prospectus, parliamentary process, deposited plans, etc; 3] 'Preparing the route' - first railway surveyors, surveying the route, opposition, etc; 4] 'Land for the line' - landed interest, effect on routes, wayleaves, etc, land values, valuations and arbitrations, tunnels, surplus land, etc; 5] 'Influence of the railway' - railways in towns, displaced people, seaside, ports, routes and land patterns, etc; 6] 'Railway communities' - railway towns, enclaves, villages, company housing policies, house design, rents, etc; 7] 'Railway property management, 1830-1946' - early committee system, estate surveyors, railway estate departments, boundaries, railway rating, site development, land plans, etc; 8] 'Cinderella to market leader' - creation of British Rail Property Board, property development 1961-74 and 1974-90, Monopolies & Mergers Commission report, optimum estate management, etc; 9] 'The working property board' - station trading, use of arches, new stations and new uses, railways and local authorities, legacy of history, conservation, closed lines, etc