Taking a global approach, this insightful Handbook brings together leading researchers to provide a comprehensive overview of the state-of-the-art in railway regulation with a particular focus on countries that rely heavily on railways for transportation links. The Handbook also considers the most pressing issues for those working in and with railway systems, and outlines future trends in the development of rail globally.
This book contains all the Laws relating to Indian railways within territories of India. It can be used as a bare act set of the laws as well as detailed information material about commercial, personnel, or consumer laws relating to Indian railways. This book is for anyone dealing with Indian Railways as in the nature of passenger/ traveller, businessman, logistics, railway employees or railway officers, or anyone wanting to have proper knowledge about how Indian Railways works. This book not only contains Laws relating to railways but it also covers in depth of Indian laws from which Indian Railways is related. This feature really make this book important for anyone This 190 pages of information can keep you smart as well as safe while dealing with your day to day business with Indian Railways. The detailed bare act covered in this book are: THE RAILWAYS ACT, 1989 THE RAILWAY CLAIMS TRIBUNAL ACT, 1987 THE RAILWAY COMPANIES (EMERGENCY PROVISIONS) ACT, 1951 THE RAILWAY PROPERTY (UNLAWFUL POSSESSION) ACT, 1966 THE RAILWAY PROTECTION FORCE ACT, 1957 THE RAILWAYS (EMPLOYMENT OF MEMBERS OF ARMED FORCES) ACT, 1965 THE TERMINAL TAX ON RAILWAY PASSENGERS ACT, 1956 THE CALCUTTA METRO RAILWAY (OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE) TEMPORARY PROVISIONS ACT, 1985 THE CHAPARUMUKH-SILGHAT RAILWAY LINE AND THE KATAKHAL LALA BAZAR RAILWAY LINE (NATIONALISATION) ACT, 1982 THE METRO RAILWAYS (CONSTRUCTION OF WORKS) ACT, 1978 THE INDIAN RAILWAY COMPANIES ACT, 1895 THE INDIAN TRAMWAYS ACT, 1902 THE INDIAN RAILWAY BOARD ACT, 1905 THE RAILWAYS (LOCAL AUTHORITIES' TAXATION) ACT, 1941 THE RAILWAY COMPANIES (SUBSTITUTION OF PARTIES IN CIVIL PROCEEDINGS)ACT, 1946 THE COTTON TRANSPORT ACT, 1923 Once again I thank you all for purchasing this book and would like to recommend you to read my other books on "Indian law" series published on Amazon and Google. Thank you!! your legal wellwisher Shubham Sinha
No enterprise is so seductive as a railroad for the influence it exerts, the power it gives, and the hope of gain it offers.—Poor's Manual of Railroads (1900) At its peak, the railroad was the Internet of its day in its transformative impact on American life and law. A harbinger and promoter of economic empire, it was also the icon of a technological revolution that accelerated national expansion and in the process transformed our legal system. James W. Ely Jr., in the first comprehensive legal history of the rail industry, shows that the two institutions-the railroad and American law-had a profound influence on each other. Ely chronicles how "America's first big business" impelled the creation of a vast array of new laws in a country where long-distance internal transport had previously been limited to canals and turnpikes. Railroads, the first major industry to experience extensive regulation, brought about significant legal innovations governing interstate commerce, eminent domain, private property, labor relations, and much more. Much of this development was originally designed to serve the interests of the railroads themselves but gradually came to contest and control the industry's power and exploitative tendencies. As Ely reveals, despite its great promise and potential as an engine of prosperity and uniter of far-flung regions, the railroad was not universally admired. Railroads uprooted people, threatened local autonomy, and posed dangers to employees and the public alike-situations with unprecedented legal ramifications. Ely explores the complex and sometimes contradictory ways in which those ramifications played out, as railroads crossed state lines and knitted together a diverse nation with thousands of miles of iron rail. Epic in its scope, Railroads and American Law makes a complex subject accessible to a wide range of readers, from legal historians to railroad buffs, and shows the many ways in which a powerful industry brought change and innovation to America.
The Handbook of RAMS in Railway Systems: Theory and Practice addresses the complexity in today's railway systems, which use computers and electromechanical components to increase efficiency while ensuring a high level of safety. RAM (Reliability, Availability, Maintainability) addresses the specifications and standards that manufacturers and operators have to meet. Modeling, implementation, and assessment of RAM and safety requires the integration of railway engineering systems; mathematical and statistical methods; standards compliance; and financial/economic factors. This Handbook brings together a group of experts to present RAM and safety in a modern, comprehensive manner.
The impact of constant technological change upon our perception of the world is so pervasive as to have become a commonplace of modern society. But this was not always the case; as Wolfgang Schivelbusch points out in this fascinating study, our adaptation to technological change—the development of our modern, industrialized consciousness—was very much a learned behavior. In The Railway Journey, Schivelbusch examines the origins of this industrialized consciousness by exploring the reaction in the nineteenth century to the first dramatic avatar of technological change, the railroad. In a highly original and engaging fashion, Schivelbusch discusses the ways in which our perceptions of distance, time, autonomy, speed, and risk were altered by railway travel. As a history of the surprising ways in which technology and culture interact, this book covers a wide range of topics, including the changing perception of landscapes, the death of conversation while traveling, the problematic nature of the railway compartment, the space of glass architecture, the pathology of the railway journey, industrial fatigue and the history of shock, and the railroad and the city. Belonging to a distinguished European tradition of critical sociology best exemplified by the work of Georg Simmel and Walter Benjamin, The Railway Journey is anchored in rich empirical data and full of striking insights about railway travel, the industrial revolution, and technological change. Now updated with a new preface, The Railway Journey is an invaluable resource for readers interested in nineteenth-century culture and technology and the prehistory of modern media and digitalization.
