British Railways and the Great War Vol. 1: Organisation Efforts Difficulties and Achievements (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from British Railways and the Great War Vol. 1: Organisation Efforts Difficulties and Achievements<br><br>On the announcement being made in the House of Commons in july 1916 that the Government had arranged ''for the writing of an official history of the war the Author revived the question''as to a history of the part that British Railways were taking in the war and facilities were then afforded to him for the making of the necessary researches and for the collection of the essential information a certain amount of which however as regarded the earlier preparations of the British railways for war in accordance with the dictates of ordinary State policy had already been given by him in The Rise of rail-power.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases an imperfection in the original such as a blemish or missing page may be replicated in our edition. We do however repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.