SESSION 1 - MODERNIZATION AS A PROCESS
Railway Modernization after the First World War in the
Netherlands.
Augustus J. Veenendaal, Jr.
Modernizing the Austrian Railways after the fall of
the Habsburg Empire: reorganization, electrification and coping with new
competitors.
Bernd Kreuzer.
Chromium Dreams: the political obstacles to reilway
modernization in Britain.
Charles Loft.
Railway development: the history of a reform à la Portugaise.
Vasco Guimaräes da Silva.
Technological
mutations of railways' fastening systems for the rails: a required
modernization for an adjustment to the evolution of the market.
Ludovic Laloux.
The failure of private enterprise and the role
of the state in railway modernization: the implications of the Pennsylvania
Railroad for modern European railway practice.
Albert J. Churella.
SESSION 2 - MODERNIZATION AS A RESULT OF
TECHNOLOGICAL TRANSFERS, FAILURES AND HESITATIONS
Technological modernization in networks with
weak traffic flows. Safety in Iberian Peninsula railways during the XIX
century.
Tomás Martínez Vara / Francisco de los Cobos
Arteaga.
From the École de Ponts et Chaussées to
Portuguese railways: the transfer of technological knowledge and practices.
Ana Cardoso de Matos / Maria Paula Diogo
From the Steam "Dragon" to the high-speed-ICE,
1848-1998.
Boris Böttcher.
The steam turbine locomotives of the
Deutsche Reichsbahn. A failed innovation project of the interwar era.
Reinhold Bauer.
Delayed modernization - The electrification of
the German railways.
Ralph Roth.
The introduction of
diesel traction, as modernization element of Portuguese railways.
Luis Lopes dos Santos.
SESSION 3 - RAILWAYS AND THE
MODERNIZATION OF CITIES, WORKSHOPS AND VOYAGERS
The modern passenger: constructing the
passenger as consumer on Britain's railways, 1919-1939.
Colin Dival.
Exploring the modernizing processes of railways
workshop.
José Luis Lalana Soto / Luis Santos y Ganges.
Railway compartments and private domestic
interiors: the places of the modern man.
Rocío Robles Tardío.
Amadora, a town raised due to the railway.
João Castela Cravo.
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