Название: A Quite Impossible Proposal: How Not to Build a Railway
Автор: Andrew Drummond
Издательство: Origin
ISBN: 1912476886
Год: 2020
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 272
Размер: 10,8 МБ
Язык: Английский

In the 1890s, the people of north-west Scotland grew tired of Government Commissions sent to consider a railway to Ullapool. Despite rock-solid arguments in favour of such a railway, neither government nor the big railway companies lifted a finger to build one. Against the recommendations of its own advisers, the Scottish Office dismissed the project as ‘a quite impossible proposal’.