The Impact of the Railway on Society in Britain : Essays in Honour of Jack Simmons (Hardcover)

Contents: Foreword, Derek H. Aldcroft; Editor’s preface; Three tributes, Alan Everitt, J. Mordaunt Crook, Dame Margaret Weston; Jack Simmons: the making of an historian, Michael Robbins; The Railway: Origins and Working: Pre-locomotive railways of Leicestershire and South Derbyshire, Marilyn Palmer and Peter Neaverson; The transport geography of the Wigan coalfield: the canal and railway contributions, David Turnock; Rolling stock, the railway user, and competition, Michael Harris; A note on Midland Railway operating documents, John Gough; Financing the Bagdadbahn: Barings, the City, and the Foreign Office 1902-3, P.L. Cottrell; Spirit, Mind and Eye: The ’broad gauge’ and the ’narrow gauge’: railways and religion in Victorian England, R.C. Richardson; Railways, their builders, and the environment, Gordon Biddle; Ruskin and the railway, J. Mordaunt Crook; Philip Larkin’s railways, Roger Craik; ’Beware of the Trains’: reflections and a few footnotes on the railways of Suffolk, Norman Scarfe; The train in the landscape: Dovey junction c. 1932, Gwyn Briwnant-Jones; The Opening Up of Britain: The London railway suburb 1840-1914, Alan A. Jackson; The railway and English rural tradition 1840-1940, Alan Everitt; Tourism and the railways in Scotland: the Victorian and Edwardian experience, Alastair J. Durie; Railways and the evolution of Welsh holiday resorts, Roy Millward; Sir George Samuel Measom (1818-1901) and his railway guides, G.H. Martin; Heritage and History: The North Eastern Railway Museum, York, - ’...the germ of a truly national railway museum’: York, Dieter Hopkin; Transport museums and the public appreciation of the past, Colin Divall and Andrew Scott; Writing the history of British railways,Terry Gourvish; ’Bibbling’ the railways, George Ottley; Appendix: Jack Simmons: a bibliography of his published writings, Diana Dixon and Robert Peberdy; List of sponsors; Index.