How Long Were the Railroads of Britain? The Beeching Report, 1963, and the Fractality of British Railways

In 1963’s “The Reshaping of British Railways,” physicist and engineer Richard Beeching said that the rail system had far too many stations and far too much trackage. Here, I show that the relationship between rail revenue and the rail network can be characterized by power law distributions, showing that British railroads may have constituted a “fractal network.” If so, then Beeching may have fundamentally misunderstood the nature of the problem facing him

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Year of publication:	2023
Authors:	Lane, DJ
Publisher:	[S.l.] : SSRN
Subject:	Großbritannien \| United Kingdom \| Schienenverkehr \| Railway transport \| Bahnpolitik \| Railway policy

Extent:	1 Online-Ressource (21 p)
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Language:	English
Notes:	Nach Informationen von SSRN wurde die ursprüngliche Fassung des Dokuments January 24, 2023 erstellt
Other identifiers:	10.2139/ssrn.4336664 [DOI]
Source:	ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW

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