British Rail. The first 25 years
Details:
- Author(s) Bonavia, Michael R
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 1981
- Pages 239pp; illus
- Publisher David & Charles
- Place Published Newton Abbot
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:
A scholarly, wide ranging review and appraisal of British railways from 1948 to 1973 when in public ownership, initially managed by British Transport Commission / Railway Executive and from 1963 by the British Railways Board. Chapters include: 'Four into one must go'; 'Men on the job'; 'Lobster quadrille'; 'Early problems and achievements'; 'Steam tactics'; 'The [Railway] Executive gets into its stride'; 'Winds of change begin to blow'; 'Messing about with diesels'; 'Sparks effect'; 'Under new management'; 'Modernisation at last'; 'Reappraisals - agonising and otherwise'; 'The Doctor's dilemma'; 'Mrs Castle's new railway'; 'The decade of change'; 'Into the seventies'; 'The railwaymen'; 'Money matters'; 'The shipping story'; How travellers fared'; 'London rail planning'; 'The workshop story'; 'Channel Tunnel episode'; 'The power game'; 'Towards the eighties'