Información General

• Autores: Associação Internacional para a História dos Caminhos de Ferro (coord.), Magda Pinheiro (coord.)
• Editores: Centro de Estudos de História Contemporânea Portuguesa
• Año de publicación: 2009
• País: Portugal
• Idioma: inglés
• ISBN: 978-972-99333-7-0
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Resumen

• The International Railway History Association aims to unite railway historians, museum and archives experts and other professionals, in a reflection on railways history. Liberalization was on the edge of dismantling old companies when the IRHA was created. IRHA aspires to entice attention to railway archives’ destiny in evolving company structures. The present book edits the proceedings of the second IRHA conference that took place in Lisbon at the 150th anniversary of the railway from Lisbon to Carregado inauguration.

  Railway modernization was the topic of the conference that also gave the title to this book. Railway modernization grew in a Europe struggling to cope with environmental concerns while facing global challenges. This topic, once a marginal subject among historians, became an important research theme.

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Listado de artículos

• • Introduction

    Magda Pinheiro

    págs. 5-10

    

  • I. Modernization as a process

    • Railway modernization after the First World War in the Netherlands

      Augustus Veenendal

      págs. 13-19

      

    • Delayed modernisation, the electrification of the German railways

      Ralph Roth

      págs. 21-33

      

    • Chromium dreams: the political obstacles to railway modernization in Britain

      Charles Loft

      págs. 35-49

      

    • Technological mutations of railways' fastening systems for the rails: a required modernization for an adjustment to the evolution of the market

      Ludovic Laloux

      págs. 51-59

      

  • II. Modernization as a result of technological transfers, failures and hesitations

    • Technological modernisation in weak traffic networks: railway safety on the Iberian Peninsula during the 19th century

      Francisco de los Cobos Arteaga, Tomás Martínez Vara

      págs. 63-76

      

    • From the École de Ponts et Chaussées to Portuguese railways: the transfer of technological knowledge and practices

      Ana Cardoso de Matos, Maria Paula Diogo

      págs. 77-90

      

    • The introduction of diesel traction, as modernisation element of Portuguese railways

      Luis Antonio Lopes dos Santos

      págs. 91-106

      

  • III. Railways and the modernization of cities, workshops and voyagers

    • The modern passenger: constructing the passenger as consumer on Britain´s railways, 1919-1939

      Colin Divall

      págs. 109-122

      

    • Modernization of railway workshops

      José Luis Lalana Soto, Luis Santos y Ganges

      págs. 123-148

      

    • Where there is a house there is a wagon. Railway compartments and house interiors: the places for the modern man

      Rocío Robles Tardío

      págs. 149-163