George Dow (1907–1987)
Auteur de The Story of the West Highland: The 1940s LNER Guide to the Line
A propos de l'auteur
Notice de désambiguation :
(eng) The New England antiquary George Francis Dow is not the same as the British railway historian George Dow.
Œuvres de George Dow
Midland style : a livery and decor register of the Midland Railway its absorbed lines and its joint lines to the end of… (1978) 7 exemplaires
Great Central, The Progenitors 5 exemplaires
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Date de naissance
- 1907-06-30
- Date de décès
- 1987-01-28
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- UK
- Professions
- railway worker
Public Relations and Publicity Officer (BR Eastern Region)
Divisional Manager (BR Midland Region)
historian - Organisations
- London & North-Eastern Railway
British Railways Board - Notice de désambigüisation
- The New England antiquary George Francis Dow is not the same as the British railway historian George Dow.
Membres
Critiques
Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 22
- Membres
- 108
- Popularité
- #179,297
- Évaluation
- 4.6
- Critiques
- 3
- ISBN
- 14
Although the GC never succeeded in paying its Ordinary shareholders a dividend during this period, it did survive as an independent entity until Grouping, and maintained a high reputation for innovation and good marketing. There was significant investment in improved coaching stock, signalling and safety equipment, and an impressive series of elegant and powerful locomotive designs. It was the first British railway to operate gravity marshalling yards on a large scale, although its attempts to make mineral trains more efficient were frustrated by the collieries' reluctance to adapt to larger wagons. As well as running Britain's most important fishing port of the time at Grimsby, the GC operated a large fleet of North Sea steamers and developed an entirely new dock complex at Immingham.
Dow gives plenty of attention to his own professional area: railway publicity. Fay encouraged the use of eye-catching advertising campaigns (including the famously risky one where a prominent poster at Manchester London Road predicted the winner of the forthcoming FA cup) to promote the company's services, and brought in all sorts of through workings to attract passenger traffic. After the war, there was even briefly an Aberdeen-Penzance service. Still, as Dow reluctantly admits, the GC would have done better financially if it could have abandoned passenger services altogether and just concentrated on moving coal and fish around the country. (It would have been interesting to have a bit more detail on this - was it the long-distance services or the suburban traffic around London and Manchester that were responsible for the losses?)… (plus d'informations)