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Informationen zum Autor Charles Loft is a researcher, who worked as a musician and freelance investigator before becoming a historian. He has taught at Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London, Huddersfield University and was Fulbright[1]Robertson Professor at Westminster College, Missouri, 2000–1. Klappentext 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 1963how government work on future transport needs led to conclusions which would have cut Britain's railways down by thousands of mileswhat 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. Zusammenfassung This work explains the background to, and politics behind, the infamous Beeching Report, which recommended the closure of a third of Britain's railways. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1 ‘A wound that has not healed’ 2 The railway problems 3 The success of the Modernisation Plan 4 Reappraisals 5 ‘The nitty-gritty of actually doing things’ 6 Top gear 7 White heat/red light 8 The management of decline? 9 Conclusion
