Trains, Coal and Turf: Transport In Emergency Ireland

Edité par Irish Academic Press, 2010

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Fine-looking, structurally sound hardcover, little discernible wear, bright interior, unmarked. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, little worn beyond a nick to rear upper tip, else about Fine. From the publisher's blurb, "The GSR operated all railway lines which lay wholly within Eire, and was the main transport provider during the Emergency. In this book, author Peter Rigney describes how the company coped to keep trains moving, and challenges the view that Emergency rail service was one of unremitting chaos. In fact, the experience of the GSR in these years was similar to railway companies in other neutral countries. The GSR was Ireland's biggest coal importer, one of its largest single employers, and its biggest owner of engineering workshops. It played a key role in the Anglo-Irish trade diplomacy which helped the Allied war effort, kept the Irish economy ticking over, and was the main means of transporting turf to heat homes. The book is based on a wide range of sources such as the British and Irish National Archives, the Archives of the Irish Railway Record Society, national and provincial newspapers, the trade press, and of memoirs written by railwaymen of the period. The book also examines such diverse themes as soap rationing, fuel poverty, and desertion from the British forces. It shows that wartime trade co-operation was much greater than previously thought. The Emergency experience caused Irish railway managers to move towards diesel locomotives earlier than their counterparts in Europe and particularly their counterparts in Britain. Railway and Canal History Society in the UK awarded their overall 2012 Transport History Book of the Year to Trains, Coal and Turf. The book also was joint winner of the society's 2012 Railway Book of the Year." Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. xii [1], 2-244 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.…

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Titre
Trains, Coal and Turf: Transport In Emergency Ireland
Auteur
Peter Rigney
Éditeur
Irish Academic Press
Année de publication
2010
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Hardcover
Édition
First Edition.
Dimensions
8vo 8" - 9" tall
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