Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 1116
Book Description
Railway Gazette
Author: Railroad Gazette
Author: Bradshaw's Railway Gazette
Author: Railroad Gazette
Author: Bulletin of the International Railway Congress Association
Author: International Railway Congress AssociationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 4142
Book Description
From Rail to Road and Back Again?
Author: Colin DivallPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 131713186X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 446
Book Description
The coming of the railways signalled the transformation of European society, allowing the quick and cheap mass transportation of people and goods on a previously unimaginable scale. By the early decades of the twentieth century, however, the domination of rail transport was threatened by increased motorised road transport which would quickly surpass and eclipse the trains, only itself to be challenged in the twenty-first century by a renewal of interest in railways. Yet, as the studies in this volume make clear, to view the relationship between road and rail as a simple competition between two rival forms of transportation, is a mistake. Rail transport did not vanish in the twentieth century any more than road transport vanished in the nineteenth with the appearance of the railways. Instead a mutual interdependence has always existed, balancing the strengths and weaknesses of each system. It is that interdependence that forms the major theme of this collection. Divided into two main sections, the first part of the book offers a series of chapters examining how railway companies reacted to increasing competition from road transport, and exploring the degree to which railways depended on road transportation at different times and places. Part two focuses on road mobility, interpreting it as the innovative success story of the twentieth century. Taken together, these essays provide a fascinating reappraisal of the complex and shifting nature of European transportation over the last one hundred years.
Monthly Bulletin
Author: International Railway Congress AssociationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 1706
Book Description
Nationalization of Railways, 1939-1949
Author: Association of American Railroads. Bureau of Railway Economics. LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railroads and state
Languages : en
Pages : 74
Book Description
Railway Age Gazette
Author: Railway Photographic Advertising in Britain, 1900-1939
Author: Alexander MedcalfPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319708570
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
This book explores the phenomenal resources dedicated to understanding and encouraging passengers to consume travel from 1900 to 1939, analysing how place and travel were presented for sale. Using the Great Western Railway as a chief case study, as well as a range of its competitors both on and off the rails, Alexander Medcalf unravels the complex and ever-changing processes behind corporate sales communications. This volume analyses exactly how the company pictured passengers in the countryside, at the seaside, in the urban landscape and in the company’s vehicles. This thematic approach brings transport and business history thoroughly in line with tourism and leisure history as well as studies in visual culture.