FOZTUA International Conferences

PREFACE, 2011
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 Railways (1856-1906)
Maria Fernanda Alegria 

The Significance of the Tua Valley in the Context of the Portuguese Wolfram Boom (1st half of the 20th Century) 

Maria Otília Lage 

Railways in Portugal and Spain: Corporate and Public Policies
Luis Lopes dos Santos 

Railways in Trás-os-Montes During the Second Half of the 19th 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 

Luis 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  
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) 

Álvaro 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 Lourenço 

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