Government, the Railways and the Modernization of Britain: Beeching's Last Trains

ISBN-13: 9780714653389 / Angielski / Twarda / 2006 / 240 str.

Charles Loft

Opis

The Beeching Report recommended the closure of about a third of Britain's passenger railways, a plan that went ahead despite opposition. This book examines the politics behind the programme and argues that Beeching was attempting to impose logic on railway finances and responding to the failures of public ownership.

O autorze

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.