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Signals Passed At Danger

Railway Power and Politics in Britain

By Richard Faulkner and Christopher Austin

FOLLOWING their previous books ‘Disconnected’and ‘Holding the Line’(which dealt with railway closures and reopenings respectively), ‘Signals Passed At Danger’by Richard Faulkner (Labour Peer Lord Faulkner of Worcester) and Christopher Austin (former British Rail parliamentary affairs manager) draws on research and first-hand experience of the authors, leaving no aspect uncovered of the relationship between Government and the railways over the last 180 years.

Even what constitutes a‘defining moment’can sometimes be open to debate, but their arguments are clearly explained

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