Showing posts with label Railway Management. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Railway Management. Show all posts
Saturday, 27 October 2012

'It is impossible to manage a [pre-1914] railway by theory" ... or is it?

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In the early 1900s the London and South Western Railway (LSWR) was one of five British railway companies that began sending its clerks to ...
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Saturday, 2 June 2012

Did the Management Ever Control Britain's 19th Century Railways?

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Alfred Chandler The rise of what Alfred Chandler called the ‘visible hand’ of management has dominated the business history literature f...
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Sunday, 18 March 2012

An Early Railway Manager - A Perpetual Failure

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Cornelius Stovin is not a familiar name in railway history circles. To my surprise, he is not even well known amongst those who study the Lo...
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Sunday, 11 March 2012

Reducing Railway Industry Fragmentation in the early 1900s

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Christian Wolmar has written frequently that one of the major causes of the railway industry's current woes, in terms of operational cos...
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Sunday, 19 February 2012

'The Railway Company do not want it.' - The L&SWR's Purchase of the Southampton Docks

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One of the biggest events in the London and South Western Railway’s (L&SWR) history was the company’s purchase of the Southampton Dock C...
Tuesday, 14 February 2012

TurnipRail 2 year Anniversary - The Best of the Second Year

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What a couple of years it has been. As I write, my Turnip Rail website hosts 213 posts on a range of railway history topics. However, despit...
Sunday, 15 January 2012

From Railway Clerk to Railway Manager - Changes in the Route to Management 1840-1910

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One of the questions that I ask in my PhD is how exactly did people get promoted into managerial positions within the London and South Weste...
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Monday, 19 December 2011

"Christmas fare from the provinces" - Euston Station and the Distribution of Festive Goods in the 1840s

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Given that in the nineteenth century the railways were the main way of transporting anything long distances, it is unsurprising that the fes...
Wednesday, 19 October 2011

I was a Schoolboy, a Soldier, a Labourer. Recruitment in the Early Railway Industry - Part 2

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In my last post I discussed research I have been doing on  professions that the earliest railway workers had before they joined the London ...
Monday, 19 September 2011

What Do You Want Your Railway to Do? - The L&SWR and the Need for a Corporate Vision

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Some observers of the Britain’s railway system argue that current problem with the industry is that no one asks what Britain’s railways are ...