TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2019//
TI  - The Irish Railway Commission (1836-39) aiming to reform railways in the United Kingdom and to improve the governance of Ireland
JO  - Journal of transport history
A1  - Lloyd, Philip
SP  - 123
EP  - 140
VL  - 40
IS  - 1
N2  - 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>
LA  - en
SN  - 0022-5266
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0022526618818398
ID  - ref1
ER  -