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What Price British Rail?
Author(s) -
PETERS G. H.
Publication year - 1983
Publication title -
economic affairs
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.24
H-Index - 18
eISSN - 1468-0270
pISSN - 0265-0665
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-0270.1983.tb01502.x
Subject(s) - opposition (politics) , cabinet (room) , economics , history , political economy , economic history , economy , operations management , law , political science , archaeology , politics
The Serpell Report on British Rail was greeted by hysteria from the Opposition benches and an apparently vote‐catching cold shoulder from Mr Howell and his Cabinet colleagues. But Serpell's opponents have failed to demonstrate that the supposed benefits of under‐used railway lines are worth their enormous costs, both in money and in opportunities and innovations foregone.