Author : Philip Bagwell
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 13,42 MB
Release : 2006-10-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781852855901
Highlighting long term themes in Britain's transport history, this book looks at the dilemmas facing modern society and suggests several possible solutions. It covers all the major forms of transport, from the horse to the aeroplane, setting them in their historical context.
Author : Theodore Cardwell Barker
Publisher : Taylor & Francis US
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 35,93 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0415382491
First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author : Christopher Savage
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 29,68 MB
Release : 2012-11-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1135654557
Published in 2005, Economic History of Transport Britain is a valuable contribution to the field of Economic History.
Author : Christian Wolmar
Publisher : London Publishing Partnership
Page : 127 pages
File Size : 25,44 MB
Release : 2016-05-20
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 1907994580
Transport is key to our daily lives. The transport system is essential to ensure the movement of people and goods, and most of us will use the roads or public transport every day. Vast sums are tied up in it and are spent on trying to resolve the problems of congestion and delays. And yet it is a most neglected field of politics. Britain has never had a coherent transport policy. Transport ministers are regarded as minnows compared with their ‘big beast’ colleagues in other ministries. Successive governments have barely attempted to get to grips with the challenge of getting people around efficiently and safely while limiting the environmental damage caused by transport. In this entertaining polemic, Christian Wolmar, an author and journalist who has written about transport for over two decades, explains why politicians have not addressed the crucial issue of balancing transport needs with environmental considerations. Instead, they have been seduced by the popularity of the car and pressure from the car lobby, and they have been sidetracked by dogma. Solutions are at hand – and successful examples can be seen elsewhere in Europe – but courage and clear thinking are needed if they are to be implemented.
Author : Peter Headicar
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 495 pages
File Size : 20,35 MB
Release : 2009-04-08
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1134104979
A critical overview of the nature, evolution and contemporary challenges of transport policy and planning at the national and local scale while expanding on procedural mechanisms and forging much-needed links with the related discipline of spatial planning.
Author : David Bownes
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 24,68 MB
Release : 2019-09-03
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0300245793
Travel under the streets of London with this lavishly illustrated exploration of abandoned, modified, and reused Underground tunnels, stations, and architecture.
Author : Christian Wolmar
Publisher : Kemsing Publishing Limited
Page : 526 pages
File Size : 38,76 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Railroads
ISBN : 1908555017
Author : A. K. B. Evans
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 15,65 MB
Release : 2017-03-02
Category : History
ISBN : 1351887831
Jack Simmons, perhaps more than any other single scholar, is responsible for the advancement of the academic study of transport history. As well as being a co-founder of the Journal of Transport History, he wrote extensively on a variety of transport-related topics and was instrumental in developing the London Transport and the National Railway museums. Whilst his death in September 2000 at the age of 85 was a sad loss to the world of transport history, the achievements of his life, celebrated in this festschrift, remain a lasting legacy to succeeding generations of scholars in many fields. Concentrating on the theme of the railways, and how they dramatically affected the development of Britain and her society, this collection touches on numerous issues first highlighted by Professor Simmons which are now central to academic study. These include the men who built the railways, those who financed the enterprise, how the railways affected such everyday issues as tourism, the arts, and politics, as well as the lasting legacy of the railways in a country now dominated by the private car. This volume written by former friends, students and colleagues of Professor Simmons reflects these interests, and provides a fitting tribute to one of the truly great British historians of the twentieth century.
Author : Stephen Glaister
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 40,15 MB
Release : 2017-09-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0230214258
This comprehensively revised and updated new edition of the leading text in the field provides full coverage of the historical, political and European context of British transport policy, of the new financial and regulatory regimes of the Twenty-first century and of the impact of such major new initiatives as London's congestion charge.
Author : Laurence Waters
Publisher : Pen and Sword Transport
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 28,76 MB
Release : 2020-09-30
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 1526740397
An authoritative history of the railways of Oxford and how they transformed the United Kingdom, from the mid-nineteenth century to the twenty-first. In Railways of Oxford, historian Laurence Waters looks at the development of services and operations from Great Western’s opening of the Oxford Railway in 1844 through to the present day. This volume covers the development of the railway locally, including the London and North Western ‘Buckinghamshire Railway’ from Bletchley, together with the five local branch lines. The opening of the Great Western / Great Central joint line in 1900 opened up regional travel across the United Kingdom. During the Second World War, the construction of a new junction at Oxford North created a direct link from the Great Western to the London Midland & Scottish Railway branch to Bletchley and beyond. These two junctions turned Oxford into a major railway center, bringing a considerable increase in both passenger and freight traffic. Today, Oxford is as busy as ever, with passenger services to London operated by Great Western Railway and Chiltern Trains, and by Cross Country Trains the South and the North of England.
