The prospects for European railways : is the second railway age still here or yet to begin?
Transport technologies seldom make a comeback, save in nostalgia trips for well-heeled tourists. Stagecoaches have not made a reappearance on the Bath Road, nor sedan chairs on the streets of London. But there is a spectacular exception: railways, written off thirty years ago as a Victorian anachron...
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Alexandrine Press
2009
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| author | Givoni, M Holvad, T |
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| description | Transport technologies seldom make a comeback, save in nostalgia trips for well-heeled tourists. Stagecoaches have not made a reappearance on the Bath Road, nor sedan chairs on the streets of London. But there is a spectacular exception: railways, written off thirty years ago as a Victorian anachronism destined to atrophy before the steady growth of motorway traffic, have suddenly become one of the basic technologies of the twenty-first century. The reason of course is the high-speed train. |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:cc3c5b2d-b0c2-486f-9cb6-c4321ec88ece2022-03-27T07:20:25ZThe prospects for European railways : is the second railway age still here or yet to begin?Journal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_dcae04bcuuid:cc3c5b2d-b0c2-486f-9cb6-c4321ec88eceTransport Studies UnitAlexandrine Press2009Givoni, MHolvad, TTransport technologies seldom make a comeback, save in nostalgia trips for well-heeled tourists. Stagecoaches have not made a reappearance on the Bath Road, nor sedan chairs on the streets of London. But there is a spectacular exception: railways, written off thirty years ago as a Victorian anachronism destined to atrophy before the steady growth of motorway traffic, have suddenly become one of the basic technologies of the twenty-first century. The reason of course is the high-speed train. |
| spellingShingle | Givoni, M Holvad, T The prospects for European railways : is the second railway age still here or yet to begin? |
| title | The prospects for European railways : is the second railway age still here or yet to begin? |
| title_full | The prospects for European railways : is the second railway age still here or yet to begin? |
| title_fullStr | The prospects for European railways : is the second railway age still here or yet to begin? |
| title_full_unstemmed | The prospects for European railways : is the second railway age still here or yet to begin? |
| title_short | The prospects for European railways : is the second railway age still here or yet to begin? |
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