@article{ref1,
title="The Irish Railway Commission (1836-39) aiming to reform railways in the United Kingdom and to improve the governance of Ireland",
journal="Journal of transport history",
year="2019",
author="Lloyd, Philip",
volume="40",
number="1",
pages="123-140",
abstract="This article uses a range of primary and secondary sources to analyse the work of the Irish Railway Commission 1836-39 and its challenge to the predominantly laissez-faire approach to railway development in Britain. The commission produced a model for developing railways with the state and public interest at its heart, and it advocated railways as a system that was planned to deliver specific political and economic objectives. It thereby threatened railway interests in Britain and mobilised senior political advocates of laissez-faire to defeat the commission. Nonetheless, its work was a substantial contribution to understanding Ireland and the weaknesses of nineteenth-century railway regulation that deserves a more prominent place in the history of the relationship between technology and politics.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0022-5266",
doi="10.1177/0022526618818398",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0022526618818398"
}