Off the Rails: The Crisis on Britain's Railways

Off the Rails: The Crisis on Britain's Railways
ISBN-10
1859844960
ISBN-13
9781859844960
Series
Off the Rails
Category
Business & Economics
Pages
196
Language
English
Published
2002
Publisher
Verso
Author
Andrew Murray

Description

Rail industry insider Andrew Murray presents both a damning indictment of the chaos on the British railways over the past seventeen years and a constructive outline of ways the system could be made to work after the demise of Railtrack.

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