RR2012
Anne McCants,
Eduardo Beira,
J. Manuel Cordeiro
Paulo Lourenço (eds)
Railroads in economic context:
construction, costs and consequences
vol II - 2012
ISBN 978-989-97134-8-2
Ian J. Kerr
ABOUT FOZTUA PROJECT AND THE 2nf INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE IN FOZ TUA
Eduardo Beira
PART 1: TUA VALLEY AND THE PORTUGUESE CONTEXT
Narratives from an isolated region: population and commodity dynamics of a rural hinterland
Anne McCants
Antonio Vieira, Marta Correia and Eurico Loureiro
The Tua line - a route for emigration in the district of Bragança (1844- 1910)
Conceição Salgado
The author and engineer Jorge de Sena: relationship with the Tua line
Otólia Lage
Clemente Meneres: the skillfull strategist of the Tua railroad
Albano Viseu
One day, Sao Lourenço spa would be the Riviera of Tua valley...
Fatima Santos and Jose Manuel Lopes Cordeiro
Bruno J. Navarro
Transports under the First World War: The case of Portuguese railways
Maria Fernanda Rollo
PART 2: ECONOMIC IMPACT OF RAILROADS: METHODS AND INTERNATIONAL COMPARAISONS
A railways perspective on the first globalization
Marta Felis-Rota
India and Portugal: the Mormugao and the Tua railway compared
Ian Kerr and Hugo Pereira
Making the steeper grade: Upland railways in Wales, 1840 to 1914
Robert Schwartz
Secondary railways in continental Europe
Elleanore Belloni and Stefano Maggi
Richard Healey
PART 3: ENGINEERING, FINANCE AND MANAGEMENT
The engineering design of Tua rail track: evidence from the archives
Lurdes Martins, Graga Vasconcelos and Paulo B. Lourenço
British participation in the Spanish railway business (1828-1950)
Domingo Cuellar
The Marquis of Foz, a name in the fog. The various games of a capitalist of the railway apogee
Luis Santos
Lifecycle analysis of infrastructures: application to Tua rail track
Bruno Gongalves and Paulo B. Lourengo
Gaining Insight into Tua Railway Line through Interactive Experiments
J. S. Esteves, L. F. Ramos , J. M. Nobrega, A. P. Souto
Designing NMFT: an essay on memory and contemporaneity through architectural design
Teresa Novais, Jorge Novais
PART 4: THE FUTURE OF HISTORICAL RAILROADS
A new age of steam? The Tua Valley Line, Portugal - Experience and Examples from the Technological Heritage Operations and Preserved Railways of Britain
Dominic Fontana
An Example of Renovation - Adaptation for an Old Railway Mountain Line: The ‘Chemin de fer du Vivarais’, South-Eastern France
Michel Cotte
Draisine Tourism in Germany - ideas for the Tua line?
Stefan Brauckmann
Redesigning the classical railrider: a transportable prototype for modern ages
Carlos Barbosa, Joao Figueiredo, Jorge Marques, Lidia Teixeira, Miguel Oliveira, Eduardo Beira and Antonio Araujo
PART 5: CLOSING SESSION
Closing remarks
Anne McCants
From a Railroad to a Test Bed: Exploring the unknown through socially robust international networks
Manuel Heitor