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On the wrong line : how ideology and incompetence wrecked Britain's railways / Christian Wolmar.
- Title
- On the wrong line : how ideology and incompetence wrecked Britain's railways / Christian Wolmar.
- Author
- Wolmar, Christian.
- Publication
- London : Aurum, 2005.
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- Additional Authors
- Wolmar, Christian.
- Description
- 373 p.; 22 cm.
- Summary
- This volume highlights the failure of New Labour to get to grips with the legacy it inherited - the privatised railway system.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Machine generated contents note: 1.Government and the railways : a terrible dependency -- 2.Was BR as bad as its sandwiches? -- 3.The poll tax on wheels -- 4.Compounding the catastrophe : the sale of Railtrack -- 5.Southall : a moment's inattention -- 6.Labour fails to grasp the nettle -- 7.Ladbroke Grove : disaster at signal SN 109 -- 8.Hatfield : the accident that broke the railway -- 9.Railtrack : suicide or lynching? -- 10.Potters Bar : the strange case of the 'railway saboteurs' -- 11.Rebuilding the railway (sort of) -- 12.The risk paradox -- 13.Why is the railway so expensive? : (1) the mess of franchising -- 14.Why is the railway so expensive? : (2) the cost of trains -- 15.Why is the railway so expensive? : (3) the soaring cost of maintenance and new projects.
- ISBN
- 1854109987 (pbk.)
- OCLC
- 56643155
- SCSB-10575167
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library