ABSTRACT

This book formulates a new strategy for the railways, trying to discover how much traffic British Rail can hope to obtain. It looks at two fundamental assumptions on which the Board's case for a large and virtually open-ended subsidy rests.

chapter Chapter 1|26 pages

The Failure of the 1968 Transport Act

chapter Chapter 2|15 pages

The Prospects for Passenger Traffic

chapter Chapter 3|10 pages

Parcels, Letters and Papers

chapter Chapter 4|11 pages

Iron and Steel

chapter Chapter 5|14 pages

Coal and Oil

chapter Chapter 6|24 pages

General Freight and the Overall Position

chapter Chapter 7|35 pages

Railway Investment

chapter Chapter 8|49 pages

Manpower and Expenditure

chapter Chapter 9|33 pages

The Social Benefits of Rail Passenger Services

chapter Chapter 10|32 pages

The Allocation of Freight Traffic

chapter Chapter 11|27 pages

Conclusions: Towards a Self-Financing Railway