Railway Modernization: an historical perspective (19th and 20th centuries)

PINHEIRO, Magda (org.), Railway Modernization: an historical perspective (19th and 20th centuries), Lisboa, CEHCP, 2009, 167 págs.

Augustus Veenendal | Ralf Roth | Charles Loft | Ludovic Laloux | T. Martinez Vara and F. Los Cobos Arteaga | Ana Cardoso de Matos and Maria Paula Diogo |  Luís António Lopes dos Santos | Colin Divall | J. Lalana Soto and L. Santos Y Ganges | Rocio Robles Tardio

The International Railway History Association aims to unite railway historians, museum and archives experts and other professionals, in a reflection on railways history. Liberalization was on the edge of dismantling old companies when the IRHA was created. IRHA aspires to entice attention to railway archives’ destiny in evolving company structures. The present book edits the proceedings of the second IRHA conference that took place in Lisbon at the 150th anniversary of the railway from Lisbon to Carregado inauguration.

Railway modernization was the topic of the conference that also gave the title to this book. Railway modernization grew in a Europe struggling to cope with environmental concerns while facing global challenges. This topic, once a marginal subject among historians, became an important research theme.