Government, the Railways and the Modernization of Britain

Beeching's Last Trains
1. Auflage 2006
ISBN: 978-0-7146-5338-9
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 226 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 529 g

Reihe: British Politics and Society

More than 40 years after its publication, the 1963 Beeching Report on British railways remains controversial for recommending the closure of a third of Britain’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 Britain’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.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Professional

Autoren/Hrsg.

Loft, Charles

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Geschichte
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Wirtschaftspolitik, politische Ökonomie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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.