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The book takes an in-depth look at the East Coast Main Line-King's
Cross to Edinburgh-between 1939 and 1959. This is carried out in a
series of chapters. In the first one a picture is painted of the
state of the network in the late 1930s. It is followed by an
account of the historical context of the changes on the ECML over
the subject years. This includes wartime 1939-1945 and the fortunes
of British Railways in the post-war period until the end of the
1950s; then follows an account of passenger services on the ECML in
the summer of 1939 and in the war and changes thereafter. Towards
the end of the book there are smaller chapters of specific
interest. Amongst these are military and other government
installations served by the ECML during WWII; specific wartime
locomotive workings; the impact of war on the ECML at various
locations along the line; accidents on the ECML September-December
1959 and snow and floods on the ECML in the 1940s and 1950s. The
period covered is a crucial one in the history of the line and it
is presented in an erudite yet readable manner.
The London Underground fascinates (and often frustrates) many
people, whether they are regular users or not. And the Underground
is rarely out of the news for long, with its seemingly continual
round of 'difficulties' with staff and trade unionists. This book
seeks to describe the practical experiences and a political
perspective from the view-point of middle and higher managers. It
is they who had and have to implement official policies, whilst
interfacing with the other staff and the passenger, who 'is the
only reason we exist,' as Denis Tunnicliffe, a previous MD, put it.
They work continually between a rock and a hard place. The first
part of the book is autobiographic, whereas the remainder seeks to
explain management issues that have made the Underground's
situation somewhat problematic, to say the least. The author worked
his way up through the ranks and gives a number of anecdotes of his
career experience. He also gives a frank assessment of the
management of the Underground and its effects on the running of the
system, which are experienced daily by travellers. His critique of
the management of the tube deals with aspects such as: * Continual
governmental interference over the last 40-50 years, seemingly
based on the desire to give London the cheapest public transport
system, not a good or, even less, the best service. * Appointment
of directors and senior managers, many of whom appeared not to
understand the system and thus made flawed decisions when placed in
critical situations. * An increasingly weak management approach
toward staff and trades unions, causing bad policies to be followed
and resulting in much disruption to the railway and therefore its
passengers. * The foisting of the Public Private Partnership on the
system in a vain attempt to avoid the real costs of providing the
needed service. The book is dedicated to all the devoted staff of
LUL (London Underground Ltd), who daily tries to keep the system
running and who are the real heroes of the railway! And to the
author's wife and family, who spent many holidays, week-ends and
nights 'home alone' whilst he tried to do his bit!
Taking a global approach, this insightful Handbook brings together
leading researchers to provide a comprehensive overview of the
state-of-the-art in railway regulation with a particular focus on
countries that rely heavily on railways for transportation links,
such as Japan, India and France. Despite numerous liberalisation
attempts in recent years, the railway sector is still excessively
complex, with regulations varying throughout the world. The
Handbook on Railway Regulation gathers, for the first time, these
various approaches and practices, using a historical and systematic
approach to identify the main lessons for all countries. The
Handbook also considers the most pressing issues for those working
in and with railway systems, and outlines future trends in the
development of global rail. Specific topics covered include the
digitalization dilemma in the industry, rail sector reforms and
regulation, and competition in the market for rail freight and
passenger services. This Handbook provides an invaluable
contribution to the discussion of railway regulation worldwide, and
will be a crucial compendium for students and scholars of
transportation, regulation and competition looking to explore
different approaches to the topic. This will also be an invaluable
read for railway policymakers and regulators looking to deepen
their understanding of contemporary regulations around the world.
Originating from papers presented at the 18th International
Conference on Railway Engineering Design and Operation, this book
provides up-to-date research on the use of advanced systems,
promoting their general awareness throughout the management,
design, manufacture and operation of railways and other emerging
passenger, freight and transit systems. A key emphasis is placed on
the use of computer systems in advanced railway engineering. The
included works are compiled from a variety of specialists
interested in the development of railways, including managers,
consultants, railway engineers, designers of advanced train control
systems and computer specialists. Topics covered include: Traffic
safety, security and monitoring; Train and railways analysis;
Operation of rail networks; Advanced train control;
Energy-efficient design; Traffic modelling and simulation.
Optimization Models for Rail Car Fleet Management represents the
result of multi-year efforts to provide readers with insights into
one of the most important areas of railway transport management.
The book covers mathematical procedures for the effective and
efficient utilization of railway freight cars, developed models for
optimization methods, heterogeneity and partial substitutability of
freight cars, research and development in rail freight car fleet
management models, and the stochastic and dynamic nature of the
supply, demand and traveling time of freight cars, among other
topics.
In the immediate decades after World War II, the French National
Railways (SNCF) was celebrated for its acts of wartime heroism.
However, recent debates and litigation have revealed the ways the
SNCF worked as an accomplice to the Third Reich and was actively
complicit in the deportation of 75,000 Jews and other civilians to
death camps. Sarah Federman delves into the interconnected
roles-perpetrator, victim, and hero-the company took on during the
harrowing years of the Holocaust. Grounded in history and case law,
Last Train to Auschwitz traces the SNCF's journey toward
accountability in France and the United States, culminating in a
multimillion-dollar settlement paid by the French government on
behalf of the railways.The poignant and informative testimonies of
survivors illuminate the long-term effects of the railroad's impact
on individuals, leading the company to make overdue amends. In a
time when corporations are increasingly granted the same rights as
people, Federman's detailed account demonstrates the obligations
businesses have to atone for aiding and abetting governments in
committing atrocities. This volume highlights the necessity of
corporate integrity and will be essential reading for those called
to engage in the difficult work of responding to past harms.
The first of its kind, this book critically and systematically
addresses questions about China?'s high-speed rail diplomacy and
?'one belt, one road?' initiative. Gerald Chan argues that
?'geo-developmentalism?' is currently being formed in China, and
explores its international impact. Understanding China?'s New
Diplomacy offers an in-depth examination of how China has risen so
quickly to become a high-speed rail superpower, and how this has
impacted positively and negatively on other countries, particularly
its neighbours in Asia. Chan also highlights the challenges the
initiative poses to the state, particularly in balancing these
projects to maintain China?'s status as both a land and maritime
power. By reviewing the country?'s unique style of state capitalism
and its success of absorbing foreign train technology, new
developmental methods exclusive to China are revealed. Government
officials, foreign policy makers and students with a keen desire to
discover more about Chinese foreign policy and international
relations would greatly benefit from the expert insight into
China?'s geopolitical future.
Forming the 16th volume from this successful series, this book
contains papers from the 16th International Conference on Railway
Engineering Design and Operation. The included papers are a
collection of works from researchers, academics and practitioners
involved in railway engineering. There is a continuing need to
update the use of advanced systems, promoting their general
awareness throughout the management, design, manufacture and
operation of railways and other emerging passenger, freight and
transit systems. By emphasising the use of computer systems in
advanced railway engineering, this book contributes to this goal.
These research studies will be of interest to all those involved in
the development of railways, including managers, consultants,
railway engineers, designers of advanced train control systems and
computer specialists.
This book discusses policy instruments for sustainable
infrastructure developments. Railways are one of the most important
developmental instruments of a region, province, or country. They
play a crucial role in economic development, urban growth, urban
mobility, regional susceptibility, market integration, and world
trade. Railways are an integral part of regional and urban
development, both in terms of freight and passenger transport. By
offering case studies from various regions and cities in South
Asia, this book examines the evolution of railway transportation
and the impact of these infrastructure projects on regional and
urban development. It examines the interactions between evolving
infrastructures and competing demands and considers the negative
and positive externalities of railway transportation for people,
places, and locations. The contributions analyze issues such as
network infrastructure planning and technological development,
passenger mobility and satisfaction, vulnerability to environmental
impacts, and cross-border trade.
CASEY JONES- EPIC OF THE AMERICAN' RAILROAD by FRED J. LEE.
Originally published in 1939. FOREWORD: FRED J, LEE has given a
full and correct account of the life o my husband and his friend,
and it has been my pleasure to give him my unreserved cooperation
and direct assistance in the preparation of the book Casey Jones. I
have received many curious inquiries from all over the world and
have taken part in numerous ceremonies, radio programs and
dedicatory exercises in honor of my beloved husband. My chief
purpose in the latter years of my life is to tell the world in
every way I can how wonderfully he deserved every honor bestowed
upon him in life and every honor accorded his memory since his
death, 1 do not know as well as some his superior qualifications as
a locomotive engineer for which he became so celebrated, but I do
know that in personality, character and disposition he had no
superior. It is my belief that this volume and the monument at
Cayce, Kentucky, sponsored by the Hickman, Kentucky Lions Club and
dedicated by Senator Alben Barkley to his memory in 1938 will be,
throughout the years to come, the true permanent memorials to Casey
Jones. INTRODUCTION: THERE is a wide difference between the
saturated steam locomotives of the late nineteenth century and the
sleek aluminum, streamlined Diesel and electric engines of today
capable of developing speeds up to two hundred miles per hour j but
the technique, methods and personalities of the earlier romantic
period com prise an essentially important and extremely interesting
chapter in the history of the American railroad. From the vast army
of workers who were responsible for the actual operation and
maintenance of the railroad inthe nineties one name has arisen that
will survive in memory as long as the railroad in any form exists.
It radiates the spirit of romance and adventure inherent in the
American railroad. That name is Casey Jones. There must be some
fundamental vital element in any ballad that is accepted as a folk
song* The element assumes additional weight and significance when
the hero of the ballad was a real living human being. It was such a
person who inspired the song that has been sung around the world.
The author has gone to every known available source in order that
historical accuracy might be pre servedj and has spared no pains to
follow every clew that promised to throw light upon the life of
Casey Jones, the man. Whenever possible, every story con - cerning
him has been verified, and nothing of doubtful authenticity has
been retained. An exact chronology has been followed, and although
the story is told in fictional form care has been taken not to
color the related incidents more than the known facts warranted.
The purpose has been to recreate the scenes and make them live
again. Most of the characters arc or were real persons, with whose
names no liberties have been taken. It is only when names have been
for gotten and no known record of them was to be found that
fictitious names have been substituted. ...
Perhaps no other industrial technology changed the course of
Mexican history in the United States--and Mexico--than did the
coming of the railroads. Tens of thousands of Mexicans worked for
the railroads in the United States, especially in the Southwest and
Midwest. Construction crews soon became railroad workers proper,
along with maintenance crews later. Extensive Mexican American
settlements appeared throughout the lower and upper Midwest as the
result of the railroad. The substantial Mexican American
populations in these regions today are largely attributable to
19th- and 20th-century railroad work. Only agricultural work
surpassed railroad work in terms of employment of Mexicans.
The full history of Mexican American railroad labor and
settlement in the United States had not been told, however, until
Jeffrey Marcos Garcilazo's groundbreaking research in "Traqueros."
Garcilazo mined numerous archives and other sources to provide the
first and only comprehensive history of Mexican railroad workers
across the United States, with particular attention to the Midwest.
He first explores the origins and process of Mexican labor
recruitment and immigration and then describes the areas of work
performed. He reconstructs the workers' daily lives and explores
not only what the workers did on the job but also what they did at
home and how they accommodated and/or resisted Americanization.
Boxcar communities, strike organizations, and "traquero culture"
finally receive historical acknowledgment. Integral to his study is
the importance of family settlement in shaping working class
communities and consciousness throughout the Midwest.
In this first comparative study of Chinese and Zimbabwean railway
experiences, Gao examines the role played by technological progress
in generating significant social change. His principal concern is
with indigenous people whose efforts to meet this technological
advance has been neglected or underestimated. Gao shows how
different cultural traditions, political situations, and individual
interests create an attractive variety of local responses to the
challenges and opportunities afforded by technology. He not only
describes the final consequences of railway development, but
emphasizes the dynamic process by which indigenous people first
derived, then gradually lost, most of the gains from modern
transport advances. In addition, Gao explores a number of permanent
impacts of railways on the two areas, including demographic and
structural changes, and divisions of race and class. An intriguing
study for researchers and students of imperialism, and Chinese and
African history.
This book addresses the needs of researchers and practitioners in
the field of high-speed trains, especially those whose work
involves safety and reliability issues in traction systems. It will
appeal to researchers and graduate students at institutions of
higher learning, research labs, and in the industrial R&D
sector, catering to a readership from a broad range of disciplines
including intelligent transportation, electrical engineering,
mechanical engineering, chemical engineering, the biological
sciences and engineering, economics, ecology, and the mathematical
sciences.
Two major U.S. Midwestern railroads, the Rock Island Lines and the
Milwauke Road, filed for bankruptcy after 1975 and the Court
ordered them dismembered. This study explains the economic factors
causing financial failure such as total rail line excess capacity
in the region leading to low density of freight traffic; in
addition, labor union rules required unnecessary large train crews.
The regulations of the Interstate Commerce Commission aggravated
the economic problems by limiting rail line abandonments and
mergers designed to improve efficiency. Congress passed the
Staggers Act in 1980 to correct a large part of the regulatory
limitations to efficient reorganization of the U.S. rail system,
but it was too late to save the Rock Island and the Milwaukee Road.
The later chapters are economic analyses of the more recent mergers
of the large railroads from the Mississippi River to the Pacific
Coast. A key saving resulted from the court ruling that segments of
rail line could be sold to new short-line railroads without the
selling carrier having to pay special compensation to rail workers
who were discharged. The Illinois Central Railroad was a prime
example of a carrier that sold almost all of its branch lines.
Great efficiencies in operations were realized as the Union Pacific
acquired the Missouri Pacific and the Southern Pacific. Comparable
efficiencies were realized by the Burlington Northern acquisitions
of the St. Louis-San Francisco and the Atchison, Topeka & Santa
Fe.
The papers presented in this volume aim to update the use of
advanced systems, promoting their general awareness throughout the
management, design, manufacture and operation of railways and other
emerging passenger, freight and transit systems. The book
particularly emphasizes the use of computer systems in advanced
railway engineering.Topics covered include: Communications and
signalling; Operations quality; Energy supply and consumption;
Monitoring and maintenance; Computer simulations Planning and
policy; Operational planning; Safety and security; Rescheduling;
Timetable planning.
For much of the postwar era, French society had a contradictory
view of passenger trains, scorning them as quaint anachronisms on
the one hand, yet also fearing their economic and social impact.
All this changed with the introduction of the famed Train a Grande
Vitesse (TGV) between Paris and Lyon in the early 1980s. In vivid
detail, Meunier describes the political, economic, and social
factors that both helped and hindered the development of the
world's fastest, most technologically advanced train.
The present-day enthusiasm in France for high-speed rail travel
dates only to the successful launch of the now-famous TGV in 1981.
Until now, most published accounts of French high-speed rail have
been of a technical nature and have ignored or minimized the
historical, political, economic, and social context. Historians
have been left with detailed descriptions of locomotives and
experimental test runs, but there has been scant information
cercerning why the machines were built and why the tests were
carried out in the first place. This book is the first full-length
treatment of high-speed rail travel and the bibliography is one of
the most complete on the subject.
The day is 8 August 1963. It is the early hours of the morning, and
a group of men are waiting at a railway bridge in Buckinghamshire.
They are about to rob a mail train, on its way to London from
Glasgow, and they have no idea that on board they will find
approximately £2.5 million (over £50 million in today's money) in
cash - the largest of its time. Among their number is Ronnie Biggs.
He will be remembered long after most of the other names are
forgotten, and the money spent or lost. What is it about Ronnie
Biggs that fascinates people sixty years on from the crime that
made his name? Is it the man or the myth that makes Ron a
latter-day Robin Hood - the odd man in the confederation of
criminals who held up a train on that fateful day? This is Ronnie
Biggs' official autobiography. It tells of one of the most
extraordinary lives of the twentieth century. From Ron's daring
escape from HMP Wandsworth, to how he managed to outwit and outrun
a posse of law enforcement officers as one of the world's most
wanted men; from plastic surgery in Paris, and his years on the run
in Brazil - complete with two kidnappings and an attempted suicide
- to his return to the UK after 13,087 extraordinary days on the
run. Published for the sixtieth anniversary of Britain's most
famous crime, this is a daring, exciting and often misunderstood
life of a man who has seen and done it all, told in his own words.
If the railroads won the Gilded Age, the coal industry lost it.
Railroads epitomized modern management, high technology, and vast
economies of scale. By comparison, the coal industry was
embarrassingly primitive. Miners and operators dug coal, bought it,
and sold it in 1900 in the same ways that they had for generations.
In the popular imagination, coal miners epitomized anti-modern
forces as the so-called "Molly Maguire" terrorists. Yet the sleekly
modern railroads were utterly dependent upon the disorderly coal
industry. Railroad managers demanded that coal operators and miners
accept the purely subordinate role implied by their status. They
refused. Fueling the Gilded Age shows how disorder in the coal
industry disrupted the strategic plans of the railroads. It does so
by expertly intertwining the history of two industries - railroads
and coal mining - that historians have generally examined from
separate vantage points. It shows the surprising connections
between railroad management and miner organizing; railroad freight
rate structure and coal mine operations; railroad strategy and
strictly local legal precedents. It combines social, economic, and
institutional approaches to explain the Gilded Age from the
perspective of the relative losers of history rather than the
winners. It beckons readers to examine the still-unresolved nature
of America's national conundrum: how to reconcile the competing
demands of national corporations, local businesses, and employees.
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