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Author St John Thomas, David

Title The Rural Transport Problem
Published Milton : Taylor & Francis Group, 2021

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Description 1 online resource (193 p.)
Series Routledge Library Edtions: Global Transport Planning Ser. ; v.18
Routledge Library Edtions: Global Transport Planning Ser
Contents Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Original Title Page -- Original Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- Part One -- 1. Inconvenience or Hardship? -- 2. The Historical Background -- The Railways -- Bus Services -- 3. Railway Management -- Waste in the West -- The Burden of the Past -- Dieselization -- Train Services -- Signalling -- General Administration -- Conclusion -- 4. When a Branch Line is Closed -- The Unnecessary Loss of Public Goodwill -- The Transport Users' Consultative Committees -- Where the Committees Have Failed -- 5. Bus Services
An Over-Confident Industry -- The Provision of Rural Services -- Self-Knowledge and Public Relations -- Road and Rail Co-Operation -- Small Operators, Tendering and Subsidy -- The Traffic Commissioners -- Miscellaneous Points -- 6. Transport and Rural Life -- The Cost of Avoiding Subsidy -- Conclusions Reached From Research Work -- Planning and Transport -- 7. Subsidy and Other Administration -- Recommendations in Reports, 1960-62 -- A Professional and a Voluntary Committee -- The Cost of Subsidy -- Part Two -- 8. Research Work -- The Village Surveys -- The Closure of Two Branch Railways
A Study of Bus Passengers -- Tourist Traffic -- 9. Case Histories -- 1. The Teign Valley -- 2. Newton Abbot-Moreton-Hampstead -- 3. Coniston -- 4. The Keswick Line -- 5. Mid-Northumberland Bus Operators -- Postscript -- The Beeching Plan -- Other Railway Developments -- The North Devon Railway Inquiry -- Bus Matters -- Index
Notes Description based upon print version of record
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781000368093
1000368092