Eastern European railways in transition

Titel: Eastern European railways in transition : nineteenth to twenty-first centuries / ed. by Ralf Roth ...
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Veröffentlicht: Farnham : Ashgate, 2013
Umfang: XXX, 391 S. : Ill., graph. Darst., Kt.
Format: Buch
Sprache: Englisch
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mehrbändiges Werk:
Modern economic and social history
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ISBN: 9781409427827
Buchumschlag
X
Lokale Klassifikation: 31 13 E ; 44 13 E ; 6 13 E ; 32 13 E
  • Preface
  • Introduction: Eastern European railways in transition
  • Part I
  • General Suggestions and Historical Overviews of Railways in Eastern European Countries
  • The Baltic States - railways under many masters
  • The construction and modernisation of railways in Belorussia/Belarus in the late 19th and early 20th centuries
  • Serbia's access to the sea, 1830-2006
  • The history of railway passenger transportation in Hungary - from the monarchy to the 21st century
  • Czech military railways - history and a comparative analysis of the Czech railway network's efficiency
  • The Royal Prussian Eastern Railway (Ostbahn) and its importance for East-West transportation
  • Part II
  • Under Russian Protection
  • 1918, 1945 and 1989: three turning points in the history of Polish railways in the 20th century
  • Transport under socialism: the case of the Czechoslovak State Railways 1948-1989
  • The modernisation of railways in Slovakia after 1945
  • The centrally planned economy and railways in Hungary
  • The railways of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic: 1920-1990
  • Yugoslavia: the sub-Savian Magistral
  • Passengers' railway identity in socialist Romania during the 1950s and 1960s
  • Cold War crisis on the railway: construction of the Berlin Wall
  • Part III
  • After the Fall of the Iron Curtain
  • Changes - Problems - Modernisation: Railway integration in Europe: UIC - a key player of East-West railway integration
  • Back to the future? Russia's railway transport and the collapse of the Soviet Union in historical perspective
  • The unification of East and West German railways into the Deutsche Bahn
  • Seen from the driving cab: the consequences of German Railway's privatisation since the reunion of Deutsche Bundesbahn and Reichsbahn from the engine drivers' perspective
  • The reopening of Murska Sobota-Zalalövö railway: a paradox of the European reunification in Central Europe?
  • 'More is less': regular interval timetable in Central Eastern Europe
  • Railway heritage protection policy in Hungary
  • The heritage of the Deutsche Reichsbahn and its presentation in the Deutsche Bahn museum in Nuremberg
  • Index