Finance & Economics
Railway Invigoration Society
Can Bus Replace Train? or Will They Never Learn?
Booklet issued by the Railway Invigoration Society arguing against replacement of railways with bus services. Issued in the mid-1977s it includes certain lines threatened with conversion at the time.
REED, M. C.
Investment in Railways in Britain 1820 - 1844
A Study in the Development of the Capital Market
REED, M.C. (ed.)
Railways in the Victorian Economy
Studies in Finance and Economic Growth
SHERRINGTON, C. E. R.
The Economics of Rail Transport in Great Britain
Study in two parts. The first covers history and development with chapters on each of the big four companies, permanent way, locomotives, carriages, wagons and government. The second volume covers rates and service.
SHORT, Ernest
Railways and the State - Facts and Factors of Nationalization / The Socialist Transport Bill
Analysis of British railway nationalisation with comparisons of world-wide experience. Tables, data and graphs. The first edition was issued in 1938 with further post-war editions leading up to actual nationalisation.
STEWART, John; LARKBEY, Graham; HUNT, Hilary & KEANE, John
The SoLLTA Story - Victoria to London Bridge: The South London Link Travellers' Association 1987 - 1997
How local people campaigned successfully to revive a railway line that seemed doomed to close