Charles Loft

Government, the Railways and the Modernization of Britain (eBook, ePUB)

Beeching's Last Trains

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

More than 40 years after its publication, the 1963 Beeching Report on British railways remains controversial for recommending the closure of a third of Britaina (TM)s railways. In this book, Charles Loft examines:

• why the nationalized railways were in such dire financial straits by 1963
• how government work on future transport needs led to conclusions which would have cut Britaina (TM)s railways down by thousands of miles
• what difficulties eventually halted attempts by Conservative and Labour governments to implement these cuts.

This book will be invaluable to anyone interested in how transport policy is made or how it has arrived at its current state and sheds fascinating new light on the working of government, the economy and the mood of the times under Churchill, Eden, Macmillan and Wilson.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. September 2006
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135773656
• Artikelnr.: 49984658

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