RR2011
Anne McCants,
Eduardo Beira,
J. Manuel Cordeiro
Paulo Lourenço (eds)
Railroads in economic context:
construction, costs and consequences
vol I - 2011
ISBN 978-989-97134--5-1
Anne McCants
ABOUT FOZTUA PROJECT AND THE 1st INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE IN FOZ TUA
Eduardo Beira
PART 1: TUA VALLEY AND THE PORTUGUESE CONTEXT
The Tua line and the Portuguese railway (1856-1906)
Maria Fernanda Alegria
Maria Otília Lage
Railways in Portugal and Spain: corporate and public policies
Luis Lopes dos Santos
Hugo Silveira Pereira
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
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
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