The Impact of the Railway on Society in Britain : Essays in Honour of Jack Simmons - A. K. B. Evans

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Essays in Honour of Jack Simmons

By: A. K. B. Evans, J.V. Gough

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Hardcover | 8 April 2003

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Jack Simmons, perhaps more than any other scholar, is responsible for the advancement of the academic study of transport history. As well as being a co-founder of the "Journal of Transport History", he wrote extensively on a variety of transport related topics and was instrumental in developing the London Transport and the National Railway museums. Whilst his death in September 2000 at the age of 85, was a sad loss to the world of transport history, the achievements of his life, highlighted by this festschrift, remain a lasting legacy to succeeding generations of historians. Concentrating on the theme of the railways, and how they dramatically affected the development of Britain and her society, this collection touches on numerous issues first highlighted by Professor Simmons which are now mainstays of academic study. These include the men who built the railways, those who financed the enterprise, how the railways affected such everyday issues as tourism, the arts, sport and politics, as well as the lasting legacy of the railways in a country now dominated by the private car. This volume written by former friends, students and colleagues of Professor Simmons reflects these interests, and offers a tribute to a man regarded by many as one of the truly great British historians of the 20th century.

Industry Reviews

'... quite excellent... The high standard of all the contributions is a great credit to the the discipline of railway studies that Simmons laboured so hard to promote... the festschrift does not usually come this good... a worthy tribute to a great scholar... It is highly recommended.' National Railway Museum Review '... a collection that offers refreshingly rounded view of what railway history can be when it escapes, as Simmons anticipated many years ago, from its traditional technological and economic paradigms.' Literature and History '... a worthy tribute to this country's most distinguished railway historian... an excellent collection at an attractive price.' Journal of the Railway and Canal Historical Society

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History

Foreword
Editor's preface
Three tributes
Jack Simmons: the making of an historian
The Railway
Origins and Working
Pre-locomotive railways of Leicestershire and South Derbyshire
The transport geography of the Wigan coalfield: the canal and railway contributions
Rolling stock, the railway user, and competition
A note on Midland Railway operating documents
Financing the Bagdadbahn
Barings, the City, and the Foreign Office 1902-3
Spirit, Mind and Eye
The 'broad gauge' and the 'narrow gauge': railways and religion in Victorian England
Railways, their builders, and the environment
Ruskin and the railway
Philip Larkin's railways
'Beware of the Trains': reflections and a few footnotes on the railways of Suffolk
The train in the landscape
Dovey junction c. 1932
The Opening Up of Britain
The London railway suburb 1840-1914
The railway and English rural tradition 1840-1940
Tourism and the railways in Scotland: the Victorian and Edwardian experience
Railways and the evolution of Welsh holiday resorts
Sir George Samuel Measom (1818-1901) and his railway guides
Heritage and History
The North Eastern Railway Museum, York, - '...the germ of a truly national railway museum'
York
Transport museums and the public appreciation of the past
Writing the history of British railways
'Bibbling' the railways
Appendix
Jack Simmons: a bibliography of his published writings
List of sponsors
Index
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The Impact of the Railway on Society in Britain

Essays in Honour of Jack Simmons

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