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The essays that comprise this festschrift reflect the belief held by Jack Simmons that Britain's railways affected all aspects of civilised life from engineering and travel to the visual impact the railways had on the whole environment. Jack Simmons, perhaps more than any other single 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, celebrated in this festschrift, remain a lasting legacy to succeeding generations of scholars in many fields. 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 central to academic study. These include the men who built the railways, those who financed the enterprise, how the railways affected such everyda

Author

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

Publisher

London: Routledge

Published

2016

Language

EN

ISBN

9780754609490

Subjects

History, Sociology, Business