Railway transport industries books

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""Follow the Flag"" offers the first authoritative history of the Wabash Railroad Company, a once vital inter-regional...  Read More >>

Using the reports generated by seven different accidents on railroads and steamboats between 1833 and 1876, it is...  Read More >>

This 10th edition brings one of the classic railway reference atlases up to date. It includes a number of deletions...  Read More >>

Work Identity at the End of the Line? tells the story of workplace culture and identity in the railway industry...  Read More >>

The Wrington Vale lies approximately midway between Bristol and Weston-super-Mare, snuggling under the north-western...  Read More >>

The Jewett Car Company was born in the heyday of the electric railway boom in the 1890s. The company gained an excellent...  Read More >>

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Two major U.S. Midwestern railroads, the Rock Island Lines and the Milwauke Road, filed for bankruptcy after 1975...  Read More >>

The relationship between politicians and Britain's railways got off to a bad start, with the death of an MP, William...  Read More >>

This book provides an account of the progress made by British Rail prior to privatisation and an insight into its...  Read More >>

In the summer of 2000, Iarmrod Eireann, the Irish national train service, locked out 118 of its drivers, over 40%...  Read More >>

The book addresses myths and fallacies about Amtrak, exposing how the railroad is not as essential to mobility as...  Read More >>

Offers a look at the politics and economics of the largest and arguably most dramatic privatization undertaken in...  Read More >>

These important IMechE conference transactions identify the good and bad things about industry behaviour in new...  Read More >>

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The author looks at how a combination of creatively structured aid from the public sector and talented private management...  Read More >>

The Baltimore & Ohio (B&O), America's first railroad, was formed in 1827. In 1830 the B&O opened its first 13 miles...  Read More >>

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This work examines the construction of the Virginia and Tennessee Railroad through southwest Virginia in the 1850s,...  Read More >>

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This long-awaited study, the magnum opus of a leading railroad historian, describes the conception, construction,...  Read More >>

In 1935 an intense rivalry between the Chicago & North Western, Milwaukee Road and Burlington Route began in the...  Read More >>