Bonus 3 - Charles Tyson Yerkes Bonus (Preview)

Support the Podcast through our Patreon and get bonus episodes, behind the scenes content and more: www.patreon.com/railstonowhere Thanks to our wonderful Patreons who help make Rails to Nowhere happen and especial thanks to our £10 patreon ValkyrieLeamons. In this episode Simon and Ela discuss the "farther of London Underground" Charles Tyson Yerkes   Follow us on twitter: www.twitter.com/railstonowhere Find us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/railstonowhere/   Music: Cassette by Infraction https://inaudio.org/track/cassette-synthwave/ used under Creative Commons Attribution Unported 3.0 (CC BY 3.0)   Garry Kenors 25KV Book PDF https://ocs4rail.com/   Bibliography Badsey-Ellis, Antony. ‘Building and Financing the District Railway’. In 150 Years of the District, 4–15. Crowthorne: Capital Transport Publishing Ltd., 2018. ———. London’s Lost Tube Schemes. Harrow: Capital Transport, 2005. ———. The Hampstead Tube: A History of the First 100 Years. Harrow: Capital Transport, 2007. Barker, Theo. A History of London Transport: Passenger Travel and the Development of the Metropolis, Vol. 2, the Twentieth Century to 1970. 2 vols. Allen & Unwin, 1974. ———. ‘“Unification by Statute” and “The London Passenger Transport Board”’. In A History of London Transport: Passenger Travel and the Development of the Metropolis, Vol. 2, the Twentieth Century to 1970, 270–311 & 407–9. London: Allen & Unwin, 1974. Barman, Christian. The Man Who Built London Transport: A Biography of Frank Pick by Christian Barman. Newton Abbot: David and Charles, 1979. Cain, P.J. ‘Railways, 1870-1914: The Maturity of the Private System’. In Transport in Victorian Britain, edited by Micheal J. Freeman and Derek H. Aldcroft, 92–133. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1988. Channon, Geoffrey. Railways in Britain and the United States, 1830-1940 : Studies in Economic and Business History. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2001. Connor, Piers. Going Green: The Story of the District Line. Harrow Weald: Capital Transport Publishing Ltd., 1994. Crafts, Nicolas, Timothy Leunig, and Abay Mulatu. ‘Were British Railway Companies Well Managed in the Early Twentieth Century?’ Economic History Review 64, no. 1 (2008): 842–66. Crame, Thomas. ‘Signalling on the District’. In 150 Years of the District, 64–67. Crowthorne: Capital Transport Publishing Ltd., 2018. Croome, Desmond, and Alan Jackson. Rails Through the Clay: A History of London’s Tube Railways. 2nd Edition. Harrow Weald: Capital Transport, 1993. Franch, John. Robber Baron: The Life of Charles Tyson Yerkes. Urbana & Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2008. Green, Oliver. ‘Appearance Values: Frank Pick and the Art of London Transport’. In London Transport Posters: A Century of Art and Design, edited by David Bownes and Oliver Green, 37–62. Aldershot: Lund Humphries, 2008. Hawkes, Irene. A History of the Metropolitan Railway & Metro-Land. Manchester: Oxford Publishing Co, 2018. Horne, Mike. London’s District Railway A History of the Metropolitan District Railway: Volume I: Nineteenth Century. Crowthorne: Capital Transport Publishing Ltd., 2018. ———. The Piccadilly Tube: A History of the First 100 Year. Harrow: Capital Transport Publishing Ltd., 2007. Jackson, Alan. London’s Metropolitan Railway. London: David and Charles, 1986. Kenton, Will. ‘Robber Barons’. Investopedia, 2018. https://www.investopedia.com/terms/r/robberbarons.asp. Mitchell, Brian, David Chambers, and Nick Crafts. ‘How Good Was the Profitability of British Railways, 1870-1912?’ The Economic History Review 64, no. 3 (2011): 798–831. Murphy, Simon. ‘The American Father of the London Underground – Charles Tyson Yerkes’. The American Magazine, 2019. https://www.theamerican.co.uk/pr/ft-Charles-Tyson-Yerkes-London-Underground. Sherwood, Tim. Charles Tyson Yerkes: The Traction King of London. Stroud: The History Press, 2008. Stack, Martin, and Myles P. Gartland. ‘Path Creation, Path Dependency, and Alternative Theories of the Firm’. Journal of Economic Issues 37, no. 2 (2003): 487–94. Turner, David. ‘Managing the “Royal Road”: The London & South Western Railway 1870-1911’, 2013. Wolmar, Christian. The Subterranean Railway: How the London Underground Was Built and How It Changed the City Forever. London: Atlantic Books, 2005.