In the postsoviet decade Russian railways remained highly centralised, evaded the upheavals of mass privatisation, and remained the backbone of a demoralised economy. Preserving much of Soviet practice, the Railways Ministry mounted a skilled rearguard action that achieved a gradual and considered adaptation to the market economy rather than the pell-mell, western-orientated, liberalisation that afflicted other branches of the economy. This book describes that rearguard action, and goes on to show how railway managers are coping with the new conditions.
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Title fluctuates. ; Presented to Parliament by command. ; Report for the eighteen months ending June 30, 1890 covers period from "1st January, 1889, to the 30th of June, 1890." ; Report year irregular; ends Dec. 31, 18 -1888; June 30, 1890- ; Supplements accompany some issues. ; Mode of access: Internet.
When the Stockton & Darlington Railway opened in 1825, it was the first steam-powered railway to carry passengers. Since then there has been no shortage of music connected with trains and railways: orchestral pieces and popular songs describing railway journeys; those that celebrate the opening of a new line; worksongs and blues describing the hardship of building the railroads, even the first use of sampled music used railway sounds as its source. The railway has inspired countless pieces of music from the pastoral serenity of the Flanders and Swann song 'Slow train' to the shrieking horror of holocaust trains in Steve Reich's Different Trains. This is the first book to give a comprehensive coverage of music connected with the railways.
In the nineteenth century, thousands of miles of railway lines transformed time, space and distance. Across Europe composers celebrated with music such as waltzes and polkas, cantatas, piano pieces and saucy music hall songs. Moving into the twentieth century, iconic twentieth-century works, such as Britten's Night Mail and Honegger's Pacific 231, captured the sounds of locomotives. Railways and trains are so deeply ingrained in the popular imagination that they feature in hundreds, possibly thousands, of popular songs. In North America, early railroad songs told of hoboes, heroes, villains, and train wrecks and the sounds of the railroad were heard in boogie-woogie, blues, gospel, jazz, and rock music. In total, this book describes over 50 pieces of classical music and covers more than 250 popular songs.
This issue of Network Industries Quarterly will look at different issues of rail regulation with examples from in and outside the European Union. The rail sector in Europe like other network industries is in a process of organizational restructuring that is part of different forms of liberalisation as well as de- and re-regulation. In this process many approaches to railway regulation are reassessed. Achieving more, better and more cost efficient rail services for freight and passengers is a commonly shared goal, but there are different opinions on the right policies to achieve this goal. This issue of the Network Industries Quarterly will look at different aspects of rail regulation with examples from in and outside the European Union. On the example of the Swiss rail reform Desmaris looks at the relationship between competition and performance. Kuligowska describes the recent reforms that the Polish rail regulator had to undertake when dealing with open access provision. Laroche discusses the issue of congestion of railway lines and how saturation of rail infrastructure can be modelled. Thiebaud & Amaral look at how prices influence coordination in the rail sector. Peña-Alcaraz et al. present an alternative view on capacity pricing in open access rail systems on the case of Tanzania. ; -- The reform of passenger rail in Switzerland: more performance without competition?, Christian Desmaris - Institute of Political Studies, University of Lyon, France -- Current regulatory challenges in access to the rail infrastructure in Poland, Izabela Kuligowska – Polish Office of Rail Transportation -- Methods for saturation modelling of railway lines: the case of High-Speed Line Paris-Lyon, Florent Laroche - Institute of Political Studies, University of Lyon, France -- Vertical Separation in Rail Transport: How Do Prices Influence Coordination?, Miguel Amaral, Jean-Christophe Thiebaud - French Railway Regulatory Body (ARAF) & EPPP Chair (Sorbonne Business School) -- Capacity pricing schemes to implement open-access rail in Tanzania, Maite Peña-Alcaraz, Ignacio Perez-Arriaga, Joseph M. Sussman - Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
