Disconnected! Broken links in Britain's rail policy
Details:
- Author(s) Austin, Chris, & Richard Faulkner
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 2015
- Pages 160pp; illus
- Publisher Oxford Publishing Co
- Place Published Addlestone
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- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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Notes:
Popular account by enthusiast writers in succession to their earlier volume, 'Holding the Line. How Britain's railways were saved', 2012. Aimed at railway enthusiasts and those who had worked in the industry. 'Looks at the contraction of the British railway network over a 50 year period and its subsequent expansion and development from the mid 1990s onwards. In particular, it reviews lines that were lost and that today would have formed a valuable part of the national rail network ... It chronicles the seismic change in the approach to rail planning in Britain over the last 60 years and draws some lessons for the future'. A major focus is on closed lines and the ensuing impact this had - longer journeys, isolated towns, severed seaside resorts, closed commuter lines, lost link lines, lost main lines, etc