Description |
1 online resource (193 p.) |
Series |
Routledge Library Edtions: Global Transport Planning Ser. ; v.18 |
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Routledge Library Edtions: Global Transport Planning Ser
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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 |
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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 |
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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
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ISBN |
9781000368093 |
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1000368092 |
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