RR2011

Anne McCants,
Eduardo Beira,
J. Manuel Cordeiro
Paulo Lourenço
(eds)

Railroads in historical context:
construction, costs and consequences

vol I - 2011

ISBN 978-989-97134--5-1

PREFACE

Anne McCants

ABOUT FOZTUA PROJECT AND THE 1st INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE IN FOZ TUA

Eduardo Beira

Index

PART 1: TUA VALLEY AND THE PORTUGUESE CONTEXT 

The Tua line and the Portuguese railway (1856-1906)

Maria Fernanda Alegria

The significance of the Tua Valley in the context of the Portuguese wolfram boom (1st half of the XX Century)

Maria Otília Lage 

Railways in Portugal and Spain: corporate and public policies 

Luis Lopes dos Santos

Railways in Tras-os-Montes during the second half of the nineteenth century: projects and achievements  

Hugo Silveira Pereira

The impact of railroad accessibility on the population of Portugal’s Inland North Region (1878-1930). The Tua and the Beira Baixa lines  

Lufs Espinha da Silveira, Nuno Miguel Lima and Ana Alcantara

Tua Valley: how different is it now? An introduction to the dynamics of population (1864-2011)

Eduardo Beira

Narrative(s) on the construction of the landscape: the Tua Valley Memory Center

Maria Manuel Oliveira

PART 2: ECONOMIC IMPACT OF RAILROADS: METHODS AND INTERNATIONAL COMPARISONS 

Landownership and the coming of railroad to the American Midwest, 1850-60

Jeremy Atack and Robert A. Margo

The evolution of the establishment of the railway network in Britain using GIS 

Marta Felis-Rota and Jordi Henneberg

Development of an historical GIS of railroads in the North East USA 1826-1900: phase II , E.U.A.,1826-1900

Richard Healey and Michael Jones

Globalization, railways, and agriculture in France and Great Britain, 1850 to 1914

Robert Schwartz and Thomas Thevenin

The Alto Douro and emigration, 1855-1914 

Joaquim da Costa Leite

PART 3: ENGINEERING, FINANCE AND MANAGEMENT  

More than a brass nameplate on the door: foreign ownership and control in the Companhia Real dos Caminhos de Ferro Portugueses (1860s-1890s)

Alvaro Ferreira da Silva

The man behind Tua railways: the chief engineer Dinis da Mota

José M. Lopes Cordeiro

Becoming engineers in early industrial America

M. Roe Smith

The building of the Bhor Ghat Railway Incline in western India in the mid-19th century

Ian Kerr

Financing public goods and social overhead capital: some historical lessons

Anne McCants

PART 4: THE FUTURE OF HISTORICAL RAILROADS

Railways: industrial and maritime archaeology, geographic information systems, history and culture

Dominic Fontana

Dismantling an old railtrack: opportunities in Tua Valley

Paulo Lourengo

Two case studies in heritage and valorization of ancient mountain railways in France

Michel Cotte

A new role for old railways: tourism

Stefano Maggi

Railways heritage: an overview.

Guenter Dinholb