British Rail, 1974-97. From integration to privatisation
Details:
- Author(s) Gourvish, Terry, with Mike Anson
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 2002
- Pages 705pp; illus
- Publisher Oxford University Press
- Place Published Oxford
Topics:
- 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 commissioned account. Structured in four parts with introduction: 'Introduction - British Rail after 25 Years of nationalisation'; 1] Railways under Labour,1974-79' - 'Operating the 1974 Railway Act - financial results, organisational responses and relations with government' / 'Operations, productivity and technological change'; 2] 'The Thatcher revolution? British Rail in the 1980s' - 'Senior management and new performance targets' / 'The Serpell Report' / 'Cost control and investment on the post Serpell Railway' / 'Selling the subsidiary businesses'; 3] 'On the threshold of privatisation - running the railways,1990-94' - 'Business performance, pricing, productivity' / 'Investment in the Channel Tunnel' / 'Safety'; 4] 'Responding to privatisation,1981-97' - 'The privatisation debate and organising for quality' / 'Reorganising for privatisation, 1992-94' / 'Endgame'. Extensive appendices provide details of financial results, volumes, subsidiaries, pricing, disposals, etc