Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- List of Illustrations -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- List of Abbreviations -- 1. Introduction and Summary -- 2. Railways in the Victorian Economy -- 3. The Counterfactual Network -- 4. Regional Comparisons -- 5. Joint Lines -- 6. Regulation -- 7. Business Strategies and their Effects -- 8. Conclusions -- Bibliography -- Appendices -- 1. Deposited Plans -- 2. Notes on the Local and Personal Acts tabulated in Chapter 2 -- 3. Steiner Geometry -- 4. The Counterfactual Network: Description of Routes
5. Analysis of Hubs6. Excerpts from the Counterfactual Timetable -- 7. A Formal Model of Victorian Railway Regulation -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z
Summary
This text presents a history of the British railway system written from a modern economic perspective. It uses counterfactual analysis to construct an alternative network to represent the most efficient alternative rail network that could have been constructed given what was known at the time
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 329-366) and index
