Download or read book The Railways the Market and the Government written by John Hibbs and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The debate on rail privatisation often seems to focus on very narrow issues. Those on both sides of the argument seem to be able to employ a mass of statistics to prove their point. Proponents of privatisation suggest, with some credibility, that all was reasonably well with the privatised railways until the Hatfield disaster. Opponents point to spiralling costs since privatisation.The authors of this monograph examine privatisation in the context of the long history of continual government intervention. The government imposed upon the industry a particular structure - separation of track and wheel. It also wrapped it up in increasing amounts of regulation. After examining the history of government intervention in the railways and the privatisation process, the authors of this monograph then examine the future of railway policy. Should the industry be allowed to evolve its own structure - remerging the ownership of track and wheel if it wishes? What aspects of a railway should be regulated? Who should own the various parts of the infrastructure?This monograph is essential reading for all with an interest in railway policy and the process of privatisation.

Download or read book The railways the markets and the government written by and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Government and the Railways in Nineteenth Century Britain written by Henry Parris and published by . This book was released on 1965-12-15 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Railways presented nineteenth century governments with political as well as economic problems: their inherently monopolistic tendencies were recognized almost from the start. Hence the widely accepted notions of laissez-faire did not apply. The book traces government regulation of British railways from its beginnings in 1840. Based on departmental records, the private papers of politicians and administrators, and the archives of the companies themselves, it shows how far state intervention could go even in an age of individualism. For the student of government, it throws new light on the process of administrative decision-making, the sources of legislation and the workings of interest groups. Historians will find accounts of the origin of administrative law and the working of the civil service in the last days of patronage. For those interested primarily in railways, the book shows the influence of government on the development of such devices as interlocking signals, block working and continuous brakes.

Download or read book The East Indian and Other Government Guarantees on Railways Reprinted from The Money Market Review With Railway Enterprise in India Reprinted from Official and Other Sources written by and published by . This book was released on 1860 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Government the Railways and the Modernization of Britain written by Charles Loft and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-09-27 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than 40 years after its publication, the 1963 Beeching Report on British railways remains controversial for recommending the closure of a third of Britain’s railways. In this book, Charles Loft examines: why the nationalized railways were in such dire financial straits by 1963 how government work on future transport needs led to conclusions which would have cut Britain’s railways down by thousands of miles what difficulties eventually halted attempts by Conservative and Labour governments to implement these cuts. This book will be invaluable to anyone interested in how transport policy is made or how it has arrived at its current state and sheds fascinating new light on the working of government, the economy and the mood of the times under Churchill, Eden, Macmillan and Wilson.

Download or read book The Government and the Railways written by James Middleton Cox and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Railroads and American Economic Growth written by Robert William Fogel and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The East Indian and other Government guarantees on Railways Reprinted from The Money Market Review With Railway Enterprise in India Reprinted from official and other sources written by and published by . This book was released on 1861 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Government Ownership of Railways written by Samuel Orace Dunn and published by New York ; London : D. Appleton. This book was released on 1915 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A letter on the assumption of railways by Government written by Arthur W. HART and published by . This book was released on 1849 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Railways and the People written by Sterling P. King and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The East Indian and Other Government Guarantees on Railways Reprinted from The Money Market Review With Railway Enterprise in India Reprinted from Official and Other Sources written by EAST INDIAN RAILWAYS and published by . This book was released on 1860 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Privatisation of British Rail written by Sean McCartney and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-05-23 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The privatisation of the British railway industry was a unique political and economic event. An integrated industry was broken-up into numerous component parts and sold off to private sector interests. The result was a highly fragmented industry that was structurally unsound and operationally dysfunctional. This authoritative volume presents an enlightening portrait of an industry that is less efficient, more costly and still more dependent on state subsidy today than its nationalised predecessor. The nine chapters in this work present a comprehensive and rigorous evaluation of how and why the industry has become so dysfunctional and costly, supported by detailed financial analysis and industry examples. Seven chapters comprise a series of peer-reviewed academic papers by Professor McCartney and Dr Stittle and published in leading international journals over the period 2004–2017 which analyse selected key segments of the privatised industry: where appropriate, updates are provided at the end of these chapters outlining developments since initial publication relevant to the analysis therein. Two chapters are published here for the first time: Chapter 7 reviews the performance of the freight sector, while Chapter 1 ‘bookends’ the volume by providing first, an account of how rail privatisation was conceived and implemented in the 1980s/90s, and then reviews the impact of the pandemic and the proposals of the Williams-Shapps White Paper of 2021 which, if enacted, will effectively end the Major government’s experiment. Going far beyond the usual superficial analysis of the topic, this volume will be of significant interest to researchers and advanced students of accounting, economics, business history, transport studies, as well as industry and specialised business interests in transport and privatisation.

Download or read book State Purchase of British Railways written by Railway news, London and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book New Directions for British Railways written by Stephen Glaister and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book EU Railway Policy Making written by H. Dyrhauge and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-09-18 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through policy and intervention national governments in Europe have long held an active interest in railways, an interest that has transferred to the supranational level via the EU commission. This book explores why the EU Commission has been so slow in creating an EU railway policy, pointing the finger at strong resistance by national governments

Download or read book Restructuring Regulation of the Rail Industry for the Public Interest written by D. Robert Willig and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: