Government, the Railways and the Modernization of Britain. Beeching's last trains
Details:
- Author(s) Loft, E Charles
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 2006
- Pages 214pp; illus
- Publisher Routledge
- Place Published London
Topics:
- Name Government intervention exc legislation & regulation
- Name Public ownership & control inc nationalisation, municipalisation & privatisation
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Library:
- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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Notes:
Scholarly work on British government policy regarding railways mostly from the 1950s and in the 1960s when the implementation of the 'Beeching cuts' severely reduced the size of the network. Reassesses the state of the railways at the time and the context of the Beeching decision - it 'examines the politics behind the programme and argues that Beeching's apparent ruthlessness was an attempt to impose logic on railway finances as well as a response to the failures of 15 years of public ownership'