Charles Loft

Government, the Railways and the Modernization of Britain

Beeching's Last Trains

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This work explains the background to, and politics behind, the infamous Beeching Report, which recommended the closure of a third of Britain's railways.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. April 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 371g
• ISBN-13: 9781138992009
• ISBN-10: 1138992003
• Artikelnr.: 57045741

Autorenporträt

Charles Loft is a researcher, who worked as a musician and freelance investigator before becoming a historian. He has taught at Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London, Huddersfield University and was Fulbright[1]Robertson Professor at Westminster College, Missouri, 2000-1.

Inhaltsangabe

1 'A wound that has not healed' 2 The railway problems 3 The success of the
Modernisation Plan 4 Reappraisals 5 'The nitty-gritty of actually doing
things' 6 Top gear 7 White heat/red light 8 The management of decline? 9
Conclusion