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Synopsis
The Greatest Railway Blunder Gives a history from the dawn of the railway age up to 1948 when the industry developed into a number of large, centralised, integrated self-supporting companies, but the efficiencies borne from a common gauge and common standards enabled the railways to withstand even the very worst pressures that two World Wars brought to the transport system. Full description
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Adrian Vaughan is one of the country's foremost railway historians. He's written over 30 books on various aspects of the railway scene and he has two new volumes out now which he's been talking about on Up All Night. The first is a biography of one of the forgotten men of the Victorian era. He was called Samuel Morton Peto and he was one of the contractors who actually built the railway system. The other book is Adrian's take on the privatisation of the industry in the 1990s which he calls The Greatest Railway Blunder. Born in 1941 Adrian Vaughan spent the first part of his working life as a signalman on the line which was once the Great Western Railway built by Isambard Kingdom Brunel. Up All Night's Howard Benson went to talk to him as he worked in the signal box at Sheringham on the North Norfolk Railway. Below you can listen to our three part feature.
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The Greatest Railway Blunder
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Allan Publishing, Ian, 2009
ISBN 10 : 0711032742
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The Greatest Railway Blunder
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THE GREATEST RAILWAY BLUNDER
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Ian Allan Publishing, Hersham, 2009
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Hardcover. Etat : New. Etat de la jaquette : New. 1st Edition. This copy is in new, unmarked condition bound in red cloth covered boards with bright gilt titling to the spine. This copy is bright, tight, white and square. The unclipped dust wrapper is in new condition. International postal rates are calculated on a book weighing 1 Kilo, in cases where the book weighs more than 1 Kilo increased postal rates will be quoted, where the book weighs less then postage will be reduced accordingly. In this book, Adrian Vaughan provides many detailed examples of why the privatisation of the railways is a very, very bad deal for taxpayers. In numerous passages he describes "railway problem incidents" that now take ten times as long (at vastly increased cost) to resolve as they did before privatisation. The author skillfully explains (with many examples) that the extra time is required because before any action is taken, the "interested parties" first have to have one or more meetings to decide "who pays" and they do this by first deciding "who is to blame". This costly fiasco is a direct consequence of fragmenting a single public organisation (the old British Rail) into hundreds of smaller private companies who each have to employ managers, accountants, invoice clerks and lawyers and at the same time make profits. And the taxpayers subsidies continue so all of this extra cost is borne by the taxpayer and railway passengers. The photos will be of interest to "railway enthusiats" the photos were a valuable addition because they helped to visualise the many incidents that the author describes in the text. N° de réf. du vendeur 030342
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