Summary information
Study title
Speed of Trains in Britain, 1910-2008: Railway Timetables
Creator
Leunig, T., London School of Economics and Political Science, Department of Economic History
Study number / PID
6384 (UKDA)
10.5255/UKDA-SN-6384-1 (DOI)
Data access
Open
Series
Not available
Abstract
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.
This dataset is part of a study which tried to figure out how and why trains got faster during the last 100 years by comparing 48 train routes in 1910, 1923, 1930, 1939, 1946, 1951, 1961, 1976, 1987, 1995, 2000 and 2008. The data in this dataset was transcribed from Bradshaws, ABC and BR railway timetables.
Topics
Keywords
Methodology
Data collection period
Not availableCountry
United Kingdom
Time dimension
Cross-sectional (one-time) study
Analysis unit
Train routes
National
Universe
Trains in Britain, 1910-2008
Sampling procedure
Purposive selection/case studies
Kind of data
Text
Numeric
Data collection mode
Transcription of existing materials
Funding information
Grant number
RES-166-25-0032
Access
Publisher
UK Data Service
Publication year
2010
Terms of data access
The Data Collection is to be made available to any user without the requirement for registration for download/access under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International Licence.
Related publications
- Leunig, T. (2010) 'Post-world war II British railways: the unintended consequences of insufficient government intervention' Paradoxes of Modernization: Unintended Consequences of Public Policy Reform, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 155-182. ISBN9780199573547