Railway Transport Industries

The coming of the railways signalled the transformation of European society, allowing the quick and cheap mass transportation of people and goods o...

The privatisation of the British railway industry was a unique political and economic event. An integrated industry was broken-up into numerous com...

Road Transport in Cumbria in the Nineteenth Century (1975) is a detailed study of transportation by road in one region of Britain. By the middle de...

Revitalizing railways as a major sustainable transport mode in modern societies faces many issues and challenges. This in-depth overview places the...

This volume contains special contributions presented at the 14th International Conference on Railway Engineering Design and Operation (COMPRAIL/14)...

The Orient Express, in the collective imagination, embodies the golden age of travel. The fabrics, the silverware, the woodwork; their evocative fr...

One of America's foremost civil engineers of the past 150 years, John Frank Stevens was a railway reconnaissance and location engineer whose reputa...

The book takes an in-depth look at the East Coast Main Line-King's Cross to Edinburgh-between 1939 and 1959. This is carried out in a series of cha...

This is the first book of its kind to examine railway heritage in the context of tourism in a comprehensive, internationally relevant manner. It ex...

One of the most important parts of British heavy industry today is our railway system. Its constant appearances in news bulletins, its enormous app...

Rails Through Tipperary is a scenic photographic odyssey through the Golden Vale of County Tipperary covering the route from Limerick to Waterford ...

Railroads have played a major role in transportation, logistics and development in the state of Indiana. A perfect resource for railroad enthusiast...

In London Underground: A Cultural Geography, David Ashford sets out to chart one of the strangest, as well as the most familiar, spaces in London. ...

An Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website and the OAPEN library.Fellow Travellers examines the shi...

This book is the first substantial study in any language of one of revolutionary Russia's most distinguished and controversial engineers - Iurii Vl...

The Logistics and Supply Chain Toolkit provides practical tools for warehouse, inventory and transport managers and students to help them tackle th...

After a decade of steady investment and construction, Chinese railways have evolved into an era of high-speed. This book has two objectives. The fi...