The District Railway was designed by a committee with impractical
aspirations. A banking crisis and collapse of one of its
contractors during construction created long term financial
difficulties. It was complicit in completing the long hoped for
`inner circle' railway that was a financial disaster and very
difficult to operate. Its directors were for many years ineffectual
and its managing director, though getting off to a good start,
became complacent and distracted and failed to pursue with vigour
the policies that were needed. Even the American entrepreneurs, who
arrived with the twentieth century, had their work cut out trying
to make something of a line that rarely paid dividends and had
never been far from bankruptcy. In all this, the railway and its
operational staff provided good and useful services to important
parts of London or the suburbs it helped to shape. Why a railway
like this found itself in such a sorry state is part of the story
covered in this definitive volume. Well illustrated in colour and
black and white.
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