Railways

Each volume in this new series is a collection of seminal articles on a theme of central importance in the study of transport history, selected from the leading journal in the field. Each contains between ten and a dozen articles selected by a distinguished scholar, as well as an authoritative new introduction by the volume editor. Individually they will form an essential foundation to the study of the history of a mode of transport; together they will make an incomparable library of the best modern research in the field.Contents: Introduction; Railways and Economic Growth: a Review Article, D H Aldcroft; Private Enterprise or Public Utility? Output, Pricing and Investment in English and Welsh Railways, 1870-1914, P J Cain; A D Chandler's 'Visible Hand' in Transport History: a Review Article, Geoffrey Channon; The State and Indian Railway Performance, 1870-1920, Part 1: Financial Efficiency and Standards of Service, R O Christensen; The State and Indian Railway Performance, 1870-1920, Part 2: The Government, Pricing Policy and Capital Funding, R O Christensen; The Capitalisation of Britain's Railways, 1830-1914, R J Irving; Railways and the American Economy: The Fogel Thesis in Retrospect, D L Lightner; The German National Railway between the World Wars: Modernisation or Preparation for War?, A C Mierzejewski; Myth and Rationality in Management Decision Making: The Evolution of American Railroad Product Costing, 1870-1970, G L Thompson; Railways and the Scottish Transport System in the Nineteenth Century, W Vamplew; Railways and Land Values, J J Pincus.