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Broken rails : how privatisation wrecked Britain's railways / Christian Wolmar.
- Title
- Broken rails : how privatisation wrecked Britain's railways / Christian Wolmar.
- Author
- Wolmar, Christian.
- Publication
- London : Aurum Press, 2001.
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Details
- Description
- viii, 279 p. : map; 22 cm.
- Summary
- Christian Wolmar, one of the UK's leading transport journalists, analyses the troubled history of Britain's railways, reveals how they have reached the current state of disarray, and suggests ways to make the necessary improvements.
- Alternative Title
- How privatisation wrecked Britain's railways
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [263]-272) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Railtrack : late and unlamented -- Government and the railways : a terrible dependency -- Was BR as bad as its sandwiches? -- The poll tax on wheels -- Compounding the catastrophe : the sale of Railtrack -- Labour fails to grasp the nettle -- A moment's inattention -- Disaster at signal SN 109 -- Hatfield : the accident that broke the railway -- The price of privatisation : a dysfunctional railway -- The pot of gold : will we get a better railway? -- Putting the pieces back together.
- ISBN
- 1854108573
- OCLC
- 49555161
- SCSB-12017903
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library