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British Railways, 1948-73 : a business history
This is a business history of the first 25 years of nationalized railways in Britain. Commissioned by the British Railways Board and based on the Board's extensive archives, it fully analyses the dynamics of nationalized industry management and the complexities of the vital relationship with government.
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The Civilizing Machine
In late nineteenth-century Mexico the Mexican populace was fascinated with the country's booming railroad network. Newspapers and periodicals were filled with art, poetry, literature, and social commentaries exploring the symbolic power of the railroad. As a symbol of economic, political, and industrial modernization, the locomotive served to demarcate a nation's status in the world. However, the dangers of locomotive travel, complicated by the fact that Mexico's railroads were foreign owned and operated, meant that the railroad could also symbolize disorder, death, and foreign domination.
InThe Civilizing MachineMichael Matthews explores the ideological and cultural milieu that shaped the Mexican people's understanding of technology. Intrinsically tied to the Porfiriato, the thirty-five-year dictatorship of Gen. Porfirio Díaz, the booming railroad network represented material progress in a country seeking its place in the modern world. Matthews discloses how the railroad's development represented the crowning achievement of the regime and the material incarnation of its mantra, \"order and progress.\" The Porfirian administration evoked the railroad in legitimizing and justifying its own reign, while political opponents employed the same rhetorical themes embodied by the railroads to challenge the manner in which that regime achieved economic development and modernization. As Matthews illustrates, the multiple symbols of the locomotive reflected deepening social divisions and foreshadowed the conflicts that eventually brought about the Mexican Revolution.
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The railway navvies : a history of the men who made the railways
This is the definitive story of the men who built the railways - the unknown Victorian labourers who blasted, tunnelled, drank and brawled their way across nineteenth-century England. Preached at and plundered, sworn at and swindled, this anarchic elite endured perils and disasters, and carved out of the English countryside an industrial-age architecture unparalleled in grandeur and audacity since the building of the cathedrals.
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Amtrak, America's Railroad
Discover the story of Amtrak, America's Railroad, 50
years in the making .
In 1971, in an effort to rescue essential freight
railroads, the US government founded Amtrak. In the post-World War
II era, aviation and highway development had become the focus of
government policy in America. As rail passenger services declined
in number and in quality, they were simultaneously driving many
railroads toward bankruptcy. Amtrak was intended to be the
solution.
In Amtrak, America's Railroad: Transportation's Orphan and
Its Struggle for Survival , Geoffrey H. Doughty, Jeffrey T.
Darbee, and Eugene E. Harmon explore the fascinating history of
this popular institution and tell a tale of a company hindered by
its flawed origin and uneven quality of leadership, subjected to
political gamesmanship and favoritism, and mired in a perpetual
philosophical debate about whether it is a business or a public
service. Featuring interviews with former Amtrak presidents, the
authors examine the current problems and issues facing Amtrak and
their proposed solutions.
Created in the absence of a comprehensive national
transportation policy, Amtrak manages to survive despite inherent
flaws due to the public's persistent loyalty. Amtrak, America's
Railroad is essential reading for those who hope to see
another fifty years of America's railroad passenger service,
whether they be patrons, commuters, legislators, regulators, and
anyone interested in railroads and transportation history.
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Upheaval on the Railways in Germany?/ Umbruch bei der Eisenbahn in Deutschland?
Deutsche Bahn, the German principal rail and rail infrastructure operator, is in critical condition. Profits are declining, punctuality and reliability are on the lowest level ever. The Federal Minister for Transport announced changes in governance in June that are scrutinized in this article. Die Politik hat der Eisenbahn eine wichtige Rolle bei der Senkung der Emissionen zugedacht. Aktuell zeigt sich allerdings, dass die DB AG als wichtigstes Unternehmen der Branche in Schwierigkeiten steckt. Die Zuverlassigkeit des Netzes sinkt dramatisch, sichtbar an abnehmender Punktlichkeit und ruckgestauten Guterzugen. Zugleich ist die wirtschaftliche Lage kritisch. Verkehrsminister V. Wissing hat Ende Juni 2022 angekundigt, die DB AG kunftig starker zu beaufsichtigen. Daraufhin trat der Aufsichtsratsvorsitzende, M. Odenwald, zuruck. Die Probleme des Sektors und Losungsansatze werden diskutiert.
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Derailed by Bankruptcy
What happened when the US government stopped investing in railroads and started investing in highways and air travel? By the late 1970s, six major eastern railroads had declared bankruptcy. Although he didn't like trains, Howard H. Lewis became the primary lawyer for the Reading Railroad during its legendary bankruptcy case. Here, Lewis provides a frank account of the high-intensity litigation and courtroom battles over the US government's proposal to form Conrail out of the six bankrupt railroads, which meant taking the Reading's property, leaving the railroad to prove its worth. After five grueling years, the case was ultimately settled for $186 million-three times the original offer from the US government-and Lewis became known as a champion defender of both the railroad industry and its assets.
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