British Rail: A New History

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British Rail: A New History

British Rail: A New History

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The end of the book covers the author’s anticipation and optimism for the Great British Railways White Paper which, it would seem, has been left in the sidings (awful joke).

The advertising was definitely one of the success of the company, even the 'Let the train take the strain' slogan is commonly mentioned in conversations too!Wolmar explains clearly how from the 1970s this new breed of manager worked to change the century old methods of operation and management, tackled employment and industrial relations and took on the state.

And after eight minutes of wild ascent, she was on orbit, crunched up with her two crewmates in a tiny spaceship that took them to the International Space Station. I thought this book would be quite dry and a slog to read but this turned out to not be the case at all.So many mistakes made and just when BR largely had it correct, an extremely messy privatisation process that was ill thought out was fostered upon it. T wo years ago, Mick Lynch, a red-in-tooth-and-crankshaft trade unionist, might have seemed the last of a dying breed. After 25 years of privatisation even the Conservative Government has now recognised in the publication of the White Paper "Great British Railways" that the break up was a huge mistake. The opportunity for the UK to have a high quality integrated service was lost as the railways were broken up. Within these pages, author Neil Parkhouse has assembled a breathtaking array of colour images, collected assiduously over a period of more than ten years, which are coupled with maps, tickets, WTT extracts and other ephemera to paint a picture of the railways of West Gloucestershire and the Wye Valley as they existed mostly over fifty years ago.



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